SISTERS — For the third consecutive year, Sisters High is headed to the Class 4A baseball state quarterfinal round.

The Outlaws (25-2 overall) cruised past visiting Astoria on Wednesday, topping the Fisherman 17-4 in seven innings in the first round of the postseason. Sisters, which set a new school records for most wins in a season (25) and most consecutive victories (23) by defeating the Cowapa League champions, exploded for 12 runs in the second inning and led 14-4 after three innings.

Sisters pounded out 14 hits against four Astoria pitchers while Joey Morgan went five innings to earn the win.

Ben Larson shined at the plate, going 3-for-4 with three RBIs to lead the Sky-Em League champs — he went 2-for-2 with two RBIs in the second inning alone — and Dillon Whitt added three hits and an RBI. Morgan was 2-for-2 with three RBIs and Justin Harrer ended the game 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs.

Sisters hosts Ontario, which won the 2012 4A state title, on Friday.

In other state playoff action:

Softball

Hood River Valley 8, Bend 2: THE DALLES — Kendall Kramer and Awbrie Elle Kinkade each posted an RBI in the first inning, but those were the only runs the Lava Bears would score in their Class 5A first round state playoff defeat, which was played in The Dalles because of rain in Hood River. Eagle pitcher Kayla Byers scattered five hits and struck out 12 to lead Hood River Valley to the state quarterfinal round. Bend (17-10 overall) led 2-1 after 2 1⁄2 innings, but Hood River took the lead by scoring three runs in its third at-bat, only one of which was earned. Megan Berrigan took the loss for the Bears, allowing four runs over four innings of work. Kramer highlighted Bend at the plate, going 2-for-4 with a double and one run batted in. Lisa Sylvester added two singles and Kinkade finished the game 1-for-2 with an RBI.

Molalla 4, Sisters 0: HAPPY VALLEY — Sisters pitching ace Cassidy Edwards struck out 15 batters, but Molalla broke through with four error-aided runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to prevail in the Class 4A first-round playoff contest. The game was played on the artificial surface of Hood View Park Sports Complex in Happy Valley, as rainy conditions in the area made the field at Molalla High unplayable.

Despite a steady rain at the Hood View facility, Edwards dominated the Indians’ hitters, allowing just three hits and accounting for all but just three Molalla outs via strikeout. Edwards issued four walks, three of them intentional. The host Indians broke up a 0-0 deadlock in the sixth inning with the help of four Sisters errors, scoring four runs with the benefit of just one hit. “The game wasn’t won, the game was lost,” said Outlaws coach Ben Miller, whose team committed five errors for the day. “For the most part, I felt we played them pretty well. We just lost it with errors.”

Edwards and Lauren Cantwell each had a single for the only Sisters hits in the game against Molalla senior Sierra Benson, who struck out seven and walked two.

The Indians, champions of the Tri-Valley Conference, entered Wednesday’s contest having won 11 of their previous 12 games and improved to 20-5 overall. Molalla advances to the quarterfinal round and a Friday game at McLoughlin in Milton-Freewater. Sisters, the No. 2 team from the Sky-Em League, finished the season 18-7, including a play-in win over Scappoose last week.