'HAWKS SCRAP OUT A VICTORY JETHAWKS 5, HIGH DESERT 3.Byline: Jim Long Special to the Daily News ADELANTO - The JetHawks were less than satisfied with their 5-3 victory Monday night over the last-place High Desert Mavericks The High Desert Mavericks are a minor league baseball team in Adelanto, California, USA. Their Major League parent club is the Seattle Mariners. They are a "high-A" class team in the California League, and had been a farm team of the Kansas City Royals since 2005 before the switch. . ``We had no energy,'' interim manager Eric Fox Eric Hollis Fox was born on August 15, 1963 in Lemoore, California. The 5'10", 180 pound former Major League Baseball player attended Fresno State University. A switch hitter who through left handed, Fox was taken in the 22nd round (566th overall) of the 1984 draft by the said. ``Those guys (the Mavericks) had a chance to win and they shouldn't have. I'm glad we won, but that's not the kind of baseball we play.'' Carlos Quintin came home on Daniel Tosca's groundout ground·out n. Baseball A play in which a batter is put out at first base after hitting a ground ball to an infielder. in the eighth and Sean Luellwitz added a run-scoring single later in the inning, which were the decisive runs for the JetHawks in front of 1,063 at breezy Mavericks Stadium. This was Lancaster's opener of a franchise-record 17 consecutive road games. The JetHawks are 12-11 on the road this season. Lancaster (35-22), in second place in the California League's South Division, gained a half-game on idle Inland Empire In·land Empire A region of the northwest United States between the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains, comprising eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, northern Idaho, and western Montana. Farming, lumbering, and mining are important to the area. in the first-half pennant Pennant A continuation pattern in technical analysis formed when there is a large movement in a stock, the flagpole, followed by a consolidation period with converging trendlines, the pennant, followed by a breakout movement in the same direction as the initial large movement, the chase. The JetHawks have won 13 of their past 16; High Desert (20-38) suffered its ninth consecutive loss. David Nolasco (2-4) surrendered the JetHawks' game-winning runs. ``They're still good-caliber players,'' Luellwitz said. ``We can't look at their record.'' CAPTION(S): box Box: MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT - Sean Ceglinsky |
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