BASEBALL BEAT: FOOTHILL LEAGUE RACE TIGHTENED BY UPSETS.Byline: Chris Branam Daily News Staff Writer Four upsets turned what was looking like an easy-to-predict Foothill League baseball race into a scramble To encode (encrypt) data in order to make it indecipherable without having a secret key to "unlock" it. The term came from the early days of cryptography which camouflaged analog transmissions with secret frequency patterns. . Canyon, which lost four of its first five league games, beat Hart, ranked No. 1 by the Daily News, twice: 9-8 on Tuesday and 5-4 on Friday. Valencia, which could have tied the Indians for first, was beaten by Saugus twice. ``The league tightened up,'' Valencia coach Dennis Mifflin said. ``Saugus and Canyon hated getting pounded on.'' The top four teams are separated by just two games almost halfway through the season. Only Burbank (1-6) has fallen off the pace. Valencia (4-3 in league, 12-6 overall) and Burroughs (4-2, 9-8) meet today in a key game in the playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. race. ``I told our kids that we got the breaks we needed,'' Burroughs coach Jose Valle said of Hart's and Valencia's losses. ``I guess (Hart) just had a little letdown letdown 1. the sudden flush of milk flow that occurs when the calf begins to suck or when milking commences in a properly prepared cow. Depends for its occurrence on the release of oxytocin from the pituitary gland in response to massage of the teats and udder. .'' Canyon: Junior right-hander Mike Munn got the win in each game against Hart. He benefited from a 6-0 lead before he even threw a pitch on Tuesday. Garrett Behnke (three) and Josh JOSH Joshua JOSH Job Scheduling Hierarchically Miramontez (two) had five of the Cowboys' 11 hits on Tuesday. Hart:The Indians cruised through the first five games in league and then stumbled badly after spring break. They committed nine errors that led to six unearned runs in Tuesday's loss to Canyon. Jamie Shields was unbeaten in six decisions before taking both losses last week. An offense that is averaging almost 11 hits per game got only 15 last week. Saugus: The Centurions turned their season around with the wins over Valencia. The entered the week 1-4 in league, 4-11 overall and are now tied with Canyon for fourth, two games out of first. Senior 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 Luke Miller came alive with a homer in each game last week. He has five this season. Valencia: Mifflin said the Vikings talked on the field for a half-hour after losing to Saugus 11-0 on Friday. ``We're not concerned with not moving up to a tie (for first),'' Mifflin said, ``we're more concerned with the way we're playing.'' The Vikings weren't at full strength on Friday. Starting left fielder Tony Rodriguez Antonio-Anthony Rodriguez a.k.a. "Tony" is a Lucchese crime family mob associate born of Puerto Rican-Spanish descent from Mattituck, New York and the ex-brother-in-law of Angelo Sepe, who also was a suspect in the 1978 Lufthansa heist. missed the game after he was involved in a car accident, and Brian Otis was out sick. Chris Honaker will start today against Burroughs. He had one of the strangest pitching lines of the season against Saugus on Tuesday when he struck out nine, walked three, gave up six hits and five 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 in 3-1/3 innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. . CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Canyon High players celebrate their second straight upset victory over Hart on Friday. The Indians were ranked No. 1 by the Daily News. John Lazar/Special to the Daily News |
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