BANNING'S FIREWORKS SPELL DOOM FOR KENNEDY : BANNING 9, KENNEDY 6.Byline: Eric Sondheimer Daily News Deputy Sports Editor Noun 1. sports editor - the newspaper editor responsible for sports news newspaper editor - the editor of a newspaper It took a future Valley kid to beat the Valley's dominant City Section baseball team on Tuesday in the 4-A semifinals at Birmingham High. Banning High School's Nick Garcia Nick Garcia (born April 9, 1979 in Plano, Texas) is an American soccer defender, who currently plays for the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer. As a senior at Bishop Lynch High School in Dallas, Texas, Garcia won the 1996-97 Gatorade National Boys Socccer Player of , bound for Cal State Northridge, smashed a two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning to inflict a crushing final blow in a 9-6 win over Kennedy, ending the Cougars' two-year reign as City 4-A baseball champion. The Pilots (21-11), seeded eighth in the tournament, hit four home runs against the Cougars (22-11) to earn a spot in tonight's 7:30 championship game against 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:
``It feels very gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. ,'' Banning coach John Gonzalez said. ``We always knew to go to the City championship game, you have to go through Kennedy. They have the best program in the City and we took a big step for our program.'' In a decision that figures to be debated for years, Kennedy coach Manny Manny may refer to: In nobility:
``If we're ahead, he would have closed the game,'' Alvarado said. ``But it didn't happen. I gambled and lost.'' Alvarado determined that he didn't just want to go to Dodger Stadium and lose. He wanted Garland available. But the Cougars (22-11) could never take a lead late in the game to clear the way for a Garland appearance. Their only lead was 3-2 in the third inning. ``We thought we were going to see him (Garland),'' Garcia said. ``But we figured if we got a few runs before he came in, we could shut them down.'' But more than missing Garland, it was Banning's impressive hitting attack that eliminated the Cougars. In the third inning, with the Pilots trailing 3-2, they started hitting Ken Griffey Jr.-like home runs. First Miguel Gallardo drilled a home run over the center-field fence. Then Frank Perez homered over the left-field fence. After a pop-out, Vince Velazquez hit another home run to left field, sending pitcher Wes Crown to the bench. These weren't little fly balls - they were bashed high and far. ``Yesterday, we had a little home-run derby, seniors vs. the underclassmen,'' Garcia said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if that helped, but we hit the ball well.'' The Cougars showed lots of fight, coming back from deficits of 5-3 and 6-5. Garland's 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 single in the sixth inning tied the game at 6. Jack Cassel, usually Kennedy's closer, did well in relief. He came on in the third inning and held the Pilots to two hits until the sixth. Michael Cockrell singled with one out, stole second, went to third on a bunt and scored on a wild pickoff pick·off n. 1. Baseball A play in which a runner is caught off base and is put out by a quick throw, as from the pitcher or catcher. 2. Sports An interception, as in football. throw. Then came Garica's two-run home run. Banning had lost to Kennedy in the 4-A playoffs each of the past two years. ``I just wanted to finish my career with a win over them,'' Garcia said. |
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