BASEBALL BEAT: CANYON WILL BE TESTED : SOPH SEDDON LOOKING GOOD.Byline: Scott Magoloff Daily News Staff Writer Coach Adam Schulhofer will discover a lot about his Canyon High baseball team in the coming weeks as it embarks on its most treacherous stretch of the season. The Cowboys (5-5, 3-2) have Foothill League leader Hart (11-1, 5-0) and second-place Saugus (6-4-1, 3-1-1) as the next two teams on its schedule. But it gets better. The way the league is arranged this season, after the first round, each team faces each other team in a back-to-back, Tuesday/Friday matchups to complete each season series. So Canyon will face Hart today and Friday, then Saugus next Tuesday and Friday for four consecutive games that will serve to shape the Foothill landscape. ``You can say our season will rely upon what happens in the next four (games),'' Schulhofer said. ``We've got to win a lot of these next four games; that's what it looks like. Then we'll go from there.'' Canyon has a lot to be encouraged about in the Hart game. The Cowboys are coming off an 18-2 win over Burbank and are the only team that Hart has not defeated via the 10-run mercy rule A mercy rule, also well known by the slightly less polite term slaughter rule (or, less commonly, knockout rule and skunk rule), brings a sports event to an early end when one team has a very large and presumably insurmountable lead over the other team. . The Indians won 7-1, but at least Canyon battled for a full seven innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. . Schulhofer also noted that his team left 10 runners stranded against Hart and did not get the big hits when they were needed. One player who can provide those hits is Garrett Behnke, but Schulhofer is unsure of his playing status for today's game, which is the first one he'll be eligible for since serving a two-game suspension for cutting a class. Behnke, a senior outfielder, is batting a team-high .462 with one homer and six 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 . ``He's a huge part of the team; I haven't decided whether he'll just come right back into the starting lineup For the line of action figures, see . A starting lineup in sports refers to the set of players actively participating in the event when the game begins. The players in the starting lineup are commonly referred to as starters, whereas the others are substitutes ,'' Schulhofer said. ``A message needs to be sent about cutting class and I know he's doing everything he can to make up for that. It hurts us to not have him, but you can't get away with that stuff.'' In the mix: Sophomore pitcher Chris Seddon Christopher Jon Seddon (born October 13, 1983 in Northridge, California) is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Florida Marlins. He was called up and made his Major League debut on September 3, 2007. External links
n. Abbr. JV A high-school or college team that competes in interschool sports on the level below varsity. Noun 1. two weeks ago. After his second varsity start for Canyon in last Tuesday's blowout Blowout The rapid sale of all shares in a new securities offering. See: hot issue. blowout The nearly immediate sale of a new security issue because of great investor demand. See also hot issue. of Burbank, Schulhofer said Seddon is now his No. 1 starter. In 13 innings, Seddon (2-0) has allowed six earned runs earned run n. Baseball A run scored without the aid of an error, used in computing earned run averages. Noun 1. earned run - a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team while striking out 12 and walking five. ``We needed someone to come up and get some big outs, not walk people,'' Schulhofer said, ``keep the other side down while we score some runs, and he's done a great job.'' The addition of another effective arm is more than welcomed by Schulhofer, as senior Mike Munn (1-3) has struggled despite striking out 27 batters BATTeRS (バッターズ) stands for Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey. It is a Japanese project to find asteroids. It is associated with the Japanese Spaceguard Association. Members include Takeshi Urata. in 22 innings. He has also issued 20 walks but has not had the run support the other pitchers have enjoyed. Schulhofer said Munn is learning how to make the big pitch in tough situations and that he is improving in that area. Unstoppable? Hart has blown through every other Foothill League team through the first round of play and has outscored its opponents all season by a combined score of 132-31. Pitching is seemingly unmatched and teams have not shown the ability to throttle throttle Valve for regulating the supply of a fluid (as steam) to an engine, especially the valve controlling the volume of vaporized fuel delivered to the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine. In an automobile engine, gasoline is held in a chamber above the carburetor. the offensive machine that is Hart. Players like junior Jamie Shields (.471, 18 RBI), junior Matt Friedrechsen (.400, 2 HRs, 13 RBI) and sophomore Billy Susdorf (.500, 13 RBI) have been hot all season. But junior Ryan Haag (.439, 9 RBI) and senior Tim Hutting (.583, 13 RBI) have improved their numbers of late. Haag went 3 for 4 in Tuesday's 7-1 win against Valencia and Hutting was 1 for 3 with one RBI. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Valencia High's Chris Catlett is one of the Foothill League batters who must try to solve Hart pitching. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News |
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