ANOTHER SHOT; WIN FOR 'HAWKS JETHAWKS 8, HIGH DESERT 4.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer LANCASTER - With one swing of the bat, Jay Garthwaite brought some swagger back to the slumping JetHawks. Garthwaite homered in his second consecutive game Sunday, this time a decisive three-run shot in an 8-4 JetHawks victory over an abysmal 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. team looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. its first series victory since May. The host JetHawks trailed 6-4 going into the sixth, when Garthwaite hit a hanging 0-2 breaking ball over the left-field fence, highlighting a four-run inning. The JetHawks had lost six of their previous eight games going into Sunday, and looked flat until Garthwaite's homer against a team with the worst record (35-78) in minor-league baseball. ``We need to play to a certain level no matter who's out there, and for a key portion of today's game, we didn't,'' JetHawks manager Mike Aldrete Reliever Cliff McMachen (5-2) allowed three runs (one earned) in five innings, and Pete Sikaras, who entered the game with two outs and two on in the ninth, retired the only batter he faced for his 14th save. Garthwaite, who was 2 for 4 with five RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in , has hit seven of his 18 homers against High Desert. --Notes: Outfielder Jaime Jones, who was hit in the jaw by a pitch in Friday night's game, suffered a mild concussion and did not play Sunday for precautionary reasons. ... After being sidelined with a shoulder strain for two weeks, Doug Slaten Douglas Slaten (born February 4 1980 in Venice, California), is a baseball pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks franchise. He made his MLB debut on September 4, 2006 against the Florida Marlins and is currently a lefty specialist. He attended Venice High School. started Sunday's game and threw 14 pitches in one inning in his first outing since coming off the disabled list. He allowed one run on one hit, and reportedly threw pain-free. ... Pitcher Charlie Griffin Charlie Griffin (born June 25, 1979) is an English professional footballer. Griffin began his league career with Swindon Town in February 1999 but after making only eight starting appearances for the Robins he eventually stepped down to the Conference with Woking having went on the disabled list with an unspecified injury. --Matchup: After a day off today, right-hander Mike Schultz (1-2, 6.23 ERA) will pitch for the JetHawks when they play on the road Tuesday against Modesto. Right-hander Steve Fischer (4-4, 4.55) will pitch for the A's. Gideon Rubin, (818)713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT --Saturday's top performers: Jimmy Rohan (Valencia High) had two hits for the Dodgers' Gulf Coast League The Gulf Coast League is a minor league baseball league which operates in Florida. It is a Rookie League, with a season running from mid-June to late August. The season is 60 games long and teams in the league are divided into three divisions, East, North and rookie team. ... Dana Eveland (Palmdale/College of the Canyons) earned his first professional victory, allowing one unearned run in two innings for rookie Helena (Mont.). ... Richard Cartier (Moorpark/Cal Lutheran) improved his Single-A Asheville (N.C.) record to 10-3, throwing 7 2/3 scoreless innings to beat Delmarva (Md.). ... Chris Kelly (Pepperdine) had two hits and three RBI for rookie Great Falls (Mont.). ... Conor Jackson (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:
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