AN UNEXPECTED SHOT NO. 8 HITTER HOMERS TO WIN GAME CHATSWORTH 8, ECR 7.Byline: HEATHER GRIPP Staff Writer Nick Devian was just looking to get on base and bring up the big hitters at the top of the lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime. . Instead, Devian turned out to be the biggest hitter of the day for the Chatsworth High baseball team. Devian's two-out home run broke a seventh-inning tie and gave Chatsworth an 8-7 victory over host El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. pairings that will be announced Saturday. The league title is the fourth in a row for Chatsworth (26-2, 13-1), which took two of three games in the season series against the defending City champion Conquistadores (23-5, 12-2), who trail Chatsworth by one game with one game remaining in the regular season. ``This is big,'' Devian said. ``Any game against El Camino is big, but it's good to have this momentum going into playoffs. ... We never gave up. We never panicked, because we've come back like this all season. That's Chatsworth baseball.'' The league rivals met in last year's City final, and it wouldn't be surprising if the nationally ranked teams faced each other again May 27 in this year's title game at Dodger Stadium • • [ . Devian's heroics were needed after ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response ECR European Congress of Radiology ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance ECR El Camino Real (Kings Highway; California) ECR Electronic Cash Register ECR East Coast Radio (South Africa) rallied from a 7-2 deficit to tie the score in the sixth inning in·ning n. 1. a. Baseball One of nine divisions or periods of a regulation game, in which each team has a turn at bat as limited by three outs. b. innings (used with a sing. . The solo shot to right field was just the second home run of the season for Devian, a junior batting eighth in a lineup that produced four homers Tuesday. ``I was just hoping to extend the inning and turn the lineup over to get to our big guys,'' Devian said. Devian was plenty big Tuesday. He finished 3 for 3 with two RBIs and a walk. Chatsworth also had homers by Bobby Coyle, Kyle Barbato and Mike Moustakas Mike Moustakas (born September 11, 1988 at Chatsworth, California) is a Shortstop[1] who was drafted by the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball 2nd overall in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft. , whose two-run blast in the third inning was his school-record 13th of the season. The offensive outburst was especially pleasing for the Chancellors, considering much of it came against Eric Pettis, the ECR pitcher who has given them so much trouble in the past. Pettis held Chatsworth to two hits in last year's City championship game, then allowed just three hits when he beat them last month. This time, the Chancellors managed six hits and four runs in four innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. against him. ``He's a great pitcher,'' Devian said. ``Luckily, we found some holes.'' Pettis still did plenty of damage -- with his bat. He hit a two-run homer to cap the Conquistadores' four-run fifth inning and give him a team-high 10 home runs and 46 RBIs this season. ECR tied the game an inning later, when pinch hitter pinch-hit intr.v. pinch-hit, pinch-hit·ting, pinch-hits 1. Baseball To bat in place of a player scheduled to bat, especially when a hit is badly needed. 2. Keith Zvorak was hit by a pitch and scored on a two-out double by Aaron Breslow. Shaun Kort followed with a single, but Chatsworth reliever Jonathan O'Leary (4-0) got out of the jam when Pettis flew out to right. heather.gripp@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): 2 photos, box Photo: (1 -- color) Chatsworth's Nicholas Devian is congratulated by teammates after hitting what turned out to be the winning home run in the top of the seventh inning Tuesday against El Camino Real High School El Camino Real High School (also known locally as "ECR" and by some more recently as "ELCO") is a public secondary school located in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. . (2) Mike Moustakas completes a double play as ECR's Tyler Kolodny slides into second base. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer Box: Winning the regular-season series bodes well for Chatsworth's City Section Championship hopes. The series winner has gone on to win the City title the past three years. Here's a look at the history: |
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