BASEBALL: DIVISION II CHAMPIONSHIP: CANYON NOT SO GRAND AT END VILLA PARK SCORES TWICE IN 7TH TO WIN VILLA PARK 3, CANYON 2.Byline: Lee Barnathan Staff Writer ANAHEIM - Humanity finally caught up with Jake Coash, Sergio Almanzar and the rest of the Canyon baseball team, and at the worst possible time. The usually potent Cowboys' offense slumbered, Coash's rocket of a left arm couldn't carry the weight all the way, and Almanzar, who pitched this season for the first time, also couldn't hold the lead. As a result, Villa Park Villa Park, village (1990 pop. 22,253), Du Page co., NE Ill.; inc. 1914. It is a residential suburb W of Chicago. continued its string of playoff upsets by scoring two runs in the bottom of the seventh Saturday to beat the Cowboys 3-2 and claim the Southern Section Division II championship at Edison Field. The Spartans (24-7) finished third in the Century League, then lost their top pitcher to academic ineligibility. Still, they upset top-seeded Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. in the second round and beat the third-seeded Cowboys (24-6) Saturday. Villa Park also won with a seventh-inning rally helped by Coash's increasing pitch total and lack of available innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. . Southern Section rules prohibit a pitcher from throwing more than 10 innings per week. Coash had just 6 1/3 available innings Saturday, and he did just about everything possible to keep his team in the lead. Through 114 pitches, Coash (9-4) never retired the side in order and overcame numerous jams in limiting the Spartans to just one run on two bloop bloop Baseball n. A blooper. tr.v. blooped, bloop·ing, bloops To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield. adj. Hit just beyond the infield. singles in the second 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. . ``He pitched tremendously,'' Villa Park coach Tom Tereschuk said. ``We had bases loaded and he shut us out. Jake Coash is a tremendous pitcher.'' Villa Park loaded the bases with none out in the fourth inning, and Coash struck out the side. He finished with seven strikeouts, giving him 109 in 81 2/3 innings. In the sixth, Villa Park rallied again, using two singles and a passed ball to put a runner on third with one out. Again Coash came through, striking out Mike Vass and getting Ray Meras to pop to first. But in the seventh, things unraveled for the Cowboys. Third baseman third baseman n. Baseball The infielder stationed near third base. Noun 1. third baseman - (baseball) the person who plays third base third sacker Ben Hanna and shortstop Mike Thompson For other persons named Mike Thompson, see Mike Thompson (disambiguation). C. Michael Thompson (born January 24, 1951), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing California's At-large singled to left before Coash induced Mark Trumbo to foul out, ending the pitcher's stint and causing the entrance of Almanzar, an outfielder who hadn't pitched until this season. Almanzar went 8-2 with a 3.11 ERA, but he didn't get anyone out Saturday. He gave up a single to catcher Kirk McConchie, intentionally walked first baseman A.J. Smith and gave up the game-winning hit, a single to right fielder right fielder n. Baseball The player who defends right field. Noun 1. right fielder - the person who plays right field outfielder - (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield Dan Ferguson. Villa Park also won with sophomore pitcher Trumbo and junior pitcher Steve Johns (5-0), who held Canyon and its .349 team batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. to five hits, three of which went to Ryan Pipho. Johns won in relief with two perfect innings, the only times any pitcher retired the side in order. The Cowboys put runners in scoring position In the sport of baseball, a baserunner is said to be in scoring position when he is on second or third base. The distinction between being on first base and second or third base is that a runner on first can usually only score if the batter hits an extra base hit, while a runner on in the first four innings and scored just two fourth-inning runs. Clay Britton scored on a Trumbo wild pitch, and Pipho singled in Josh Schreck. In the first, a Pipho double went for naught, as Trumbo retired the side. Schreck reached third base the next inning but went no further. Pipho singled with one out in the third inning and stayed there. ``They hit their spots,'' said third baseman Eric Ashbrook, who wen 0 for 3 and failed to move Pipho over in the first inning. ``I didn't notice anything different (about Villa Park pitchers). We didn't hit well today. They weren't any better than anyone else we've seen this year. We still should've won. We just didn't win.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Canyon outfielder Billy Omahen can't reach the ball during the seventh inning Saturday, when Villa Park scored two game-clinching runs. John McCoy/Staff Photographer |
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