BASEBALL: THIRD TIME IS A CHARM CRESPI WINS FIRST VALLEY INVITATIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE TITLE.Byline: HEATHER GRIPP Staff Writer Crespi of Encino capped an improbable run through the Valley Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. Baseball League playoffs Monday night by claiming its first championship in three tries, defeating Valencia 5-4 in the final at Birmingham High of Lake Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). . Travis Forbes drove in Carlos Lopez for the deciding run in the fifth running with a two-out single on a grounder to third that took an awkward hop and made Valencia pay for walking the previous batter to get to Forbes. ``I wasn't nervous, I just had to relax,'' Forbes said. ``The key for us all playoffs has been that it's the whole team. It's all of us that did this -- the pitchers, hitters, everyone. ``We got in the playoffs and got on a nice little roll and kept going.'' Crespi (19-9) finished in fourth place in its division during the regular season, but upset defending-champion 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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``This gives us some momentum going into next season,'' said Forbes, a junior infielder, for the team that finished in third place in the Mission League the past high school season. ``Valencia's a really good team, so it's good to beat a team like that.'' After becoming the first team of the summer to beat top-seeded Cleveland of Reseda -- handing the Cavaliers a 2-1 loss Saturday -- Valencia appeared ready to pull off another first Monday First Monday is a short-lived U.S. television drama centered on the U.S. Supreme Court. Created by JAG creator Donald Bellisario, the show aired on CBS from January until May of 2002. against Crespi's undefeated left-hander Ryan Hawthorne. Valencia (17-10-1) had little trouble getting to Hawthorne (5-0) early on. The first four batters of the game reached base, with a bases-loaded single by Robbie Mousselli putting the Vikings up 1-0. Dan Linkmeyer drove in another run two batters later. Valencia was up 4-1 by the time Trent Poe walked 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. to force in a run. Crespi began to chip away at its lead in the bottom of the second when Forbes scored on a groundout ground·out n. Baseball A play in which a batter is put out at first base after hitting a ground ball to an infielder. by Brian Grube. Hawthorne then began to settle in when he returned to the mound, surrendering just two more hits the rest of the way and allowing only one runner to advance past first. E.C. McSweeney pitched a perfect seventh inning for his second save of the summer. Jeremy Rodriguez, Matt Scioscia, Hawthorne and Forbes each had two hits for Crespi. Scioscia doubled twice. Lopez doubled in the tying run in the fifth inning. Valencia, which defeated Crespi in the 2000 final, finished as runner-up for the second year in a row. heather.gripp@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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