BASEBALL: MISCUES COSTLY FOR GRANADA : MARBLE'S TWO TRIPLES SPARK GRANT'S UPSET GRANT 7 GRANADA HILLS 6.Byline: Lee Barnathan Daily News Staff Writer It started with a whisper through the Grant dugout dugout: see canoe. : Kameron Loe's not pitching. It ended with a loud celebratory roar. The 13th-seeded Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. - in the school's first playoff game Noun 1. playoff game - one game in the series of games constituting a playoff game - a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours" playoff - any final competition to determine a championship in four years - upset No. 4 Granada Hills 7-6 Tuesday in a City Section first-round game at Granada Hills. Mike Marble tripled twice, scored twice and had three 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 and Grant (18-9) took advantage of two Highlanders (20-7) errors to score three unearned runs. Grant next plays Thursday at 12th-seeded South Gate. Jose Munoz (5-3), who threw one inning of relief, got the win. Frank Amaya pitched the final two innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. of one-hit ball for his first save. The Lancers had expected to see Loe, Granada Hills' top pitcher with 10 wins, 11 complete games and a 1.94 ERA. To prepare, Grant coach Jeremy Lawrence turned up the pitching machine A pitching machine is a machine that automatically pitches a baseball to a batter at different speeds and styles. Most machines are hand-fed, but there are some that automatically feed. to its highest speeds. Granada Hills coach Steve Thompson Steve Thompson or Steven Thompson may be:
``I threw a lot of innings this year (75-2/3 this season),'' Loe said Tuesday, ``more than I ever have in my life. I was a little fatigued.'' Thompson started Peter Tuber tuber, enlarged tip of a rhizome (underground stem) that stores food. Although much modified in structure, the tuber contains all the usual stem parts—bark, wood, pith, nodes, and internodes. (7-3), who doesn't throw as hard, which Grant took to mean the Highlanders thought they could win with their second pitcher. The Lancers had no trouble adjusting to the slower speeds. Marble's bases-loaded triple, and Jon Spielvogel's sacrifice fly gave the Lancers a 4-0 lead. It wouldn't have been as bad of an inning had Dan Frisbee not been called for catcher's interference, which loaded the bases and brought up Marble. ``We knew we weren't ranked 13th. Everyone gives us no respect,'' Marble said. ``Since we're from the East Valley, we wanted to represent our league well.'' Tuber gave up all seven runs in 5-2/3 innings. Marble tripled and Spielvogel again hit a fly ball to start a three-run sixth inning. Marc Soulema also doubled in a run, and Grant got its final run when Soulema scored after Granada Hills reliever Peter Gunny threw wildly to second on a double-steal. The final run proved important because Jon Bringuier and Frisbee hit back-to-back homers off Munoz to open the sixth, cutting Grant's lead to 7-6. But Amaya shut the door. ``Too many mistakes,''Frisbee said. ``It seemed like every time they made a mistake, we made two more.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Alex Ubeda exults after catching the final out of Grant's upset of No. 4 Granada Hills. Evan Yee/Daily News |
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