AMERICAN LEGION: CHATSWORTH POUNDED BY DANVILLE.Byline: Gary Traynham Special to the Daily News Valley Chatsworth Post 582 struggled through its longest afternoon of the baseball season in Saturday's American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. state tournament opener but was hardly discouraged. The Area 6 champions were dealt an 8-1 thumping by 1998 Northwest Regional champion Danville and now must win three straight games to advance to the regionals. ``The last tournament we had to win three games in 24 hours, so pitching is not a concern,'' Chatsworth manager Matt Lacour said. Right-hander Scott Sellz (8-2) uncharacteristically un·char·ac·ter·is·tic adj. Unusual or atypical: an uncharacteristic display of anger. un walked six and hit two and received little help from his team, which fell to 33-5 overall The team's seven hits against hard-throwing, 6-foot-4 Mateo Miramontes were a season-low. It was a stunning contrast to the same lineup's 17-7 romp over Poly at Dodger Stadium • • [ in the highest-scoring City championship game this spring. Miramontes (9-0) struck out 10, walked two and hit three in eight innings in his team's ninth straight win. Center fielder Chad Redfern hit a solo homer Noun 1. solo homer - a home run with no runners on base solo blast home run, homer - a base hit on which the batter scores a run in the first inning, but that was the extent of Chatsworth's fireworks fireworks: see pyrotechnics. fireworks Explosives or combustibles used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of military rockets and explosive missiles and accompanied the spread of military explosives westward to . Two walks, Luke Cherry's double and successive errors led to Danville's three-run rally in the third inning. Sellz gave up three hits and two walks in a two-run sixth and was lifted after a hit batsman, single and walk in the seventh. Overall, he gave up six hits and six runs. Catcher Chris Grossman's two-run homer off Ryan Robbins Ryan Robbins born November 26 is a Canadian actor. He is married to the actress Rebecca Reichert and they have one daughter. Robbins is best known for his role as Ladon Radim in Stargate Atlantis and Charlie Conner on Battlestar Galactica. in the eighth finished the scoring. ``We played probably the poorest game of the year,'' Lacour said. ``We have to search real hard to find something we did well today.'' Miramontes allowed three of seven hits in the first inning before assuming command. ``L.A. puts out good teams,'' Miramontes said. ``They didn't get the breaks today.'' Danville manager Don Johns concurred. ``Any trip to the World Series is through L.A.,'' said Johns, who lost every position starter from the '98 team that placed third in the Legion World Series. The third inning was typical of Chatsworth's problems. With the bases loaded and two outs, two successive errors led to two runs, breaking a 1-1 tie. ``When we got behind, we got scared,'' Chatsworth shortstop Matt Fisher said. ``We're not usually like that. Their pitching was pretty good, but we didn't play defense.'' Michael Kunes (4-0) will pitch at 9 a.m. today against Area 5 champion Chino Chino (chē`nō), city (1990 pop. 59,682), San Bernardino co., S Calif.; founded 1887, inc. 1910. It is the business and processing center of a diversified farming (notably dairying) area. Red, which lost to El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and 14-4. |
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