Braves whitewash Concrete; cement league lead

The La Conner High baseball team enjoyed a smooth ride to Concrete on Friday.

And ace hurler Max Miller made sure the Braves didn’t hit any bumps in the road during their brief upriver visit.

Miller earned his seventh mound win of the year with perhaps his best outing to date, a one-hit shutout, as the Braves blanked Concrete 4-0 in a key NW2B road test.

Second place Friday Harbor sported a 5-1 NW2B mark – its lone loss coming to the Braves – entering this week’s conference play.

The win over Concrete was huge for a Braves club that took a 10-4 overall ledger into Tuesday’s late ac...