BASEBALL BEAT : ALPHA MALES.Byline: - Lee Barnathan, Heather Gripp, Gerry Gittelson, Scott Magoloff The Alpha League finally began play Tuesday and the early choice for league Player of the Year is L.A. Baptist sophomore Andrew Petersen Andrew Nicholas Petersen (March 10, 1870 - September 28, 1952) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born near Thisted, Denmark, Petersen immigrated to the United States in 1873 with his parents, who settled in Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to New York City in 1879. , who has hit and pitched his team to a 12-2 start, including 2-0 in league. While playing in the 18th annual Templeton Easter Tournament, Petersen went 6 for 9 with 11 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 - including nine in one game. His season totals are at .449 with four homers, 19 RBI and five stolen bases. His 22 hits lead the team. He also pitches for the Knights, going 4-1 with a 3.37 ERA and 22 strikeouts in 27 innings. Of course the Knights are more than just Petersen. Several football players proved their commitment when they arrived at 8 a.m. on Saturdays for fall games after playing football the night before. Quarterback Scott Swensen is 3-0 with a 0.88 ERA and is batting .413 with a team-best 24 RBI, five homers and five doubles. ``Nobody else thought we would be this good,'' LAB coach Mark Hubbard said. LEAGUE UPDATES Foothill: Things might be falling into place for Valencia, which finds itself with a rare opportunity to get three league victories in five days since returning from spring break. The Vikings (9-6-1, 1-4-1) play Burroughs twice this week and also have a makeup game with Saugus today. Freshman 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 Jimmy Rohan (.420 average) and sophomore Danny Braun (hovering around .400) have helped the young Vikings cut its average of four errors per game in half. Sophomore Richie Martin leads the area with 10 home runs and is near the top in RBI with 29. Sophomore pitcher Kyle Wilson, called up from junior varsity junior varsity n. Abbr. JV A high-school or college team that competes in interschool sports on the level below varsity. Noun 1. , is 1-1 in his first two varsity starts to earn a spot in the rotation. Hart (14-4, 6-1) dropped two of three games at the Anaheim tournament last week. Junior Jamie Shields (4-0, 1.66 ERA) has 61 strikeouts in 33-2/3 innings this season. The Indians have seven players batting over .400 and a team ERA of 2.73. After Hart, there is a logjam log·jam n. 1. An immovable mass of floating logs crowded together. 2. A deadlock, as in negotiations; an impasse. Noun 1. with Saugus, Canyon and Burroughs tied for second place. Burroughs coach Jose Valle has four league wins, but three have come against Burbank, which figures to struggle after pitcher Jon McGinley injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. his knee. Golden: Palmdale (10-5, 4-1) had a big week with two wins over previously undefeated Lancaster (10-5, 5-2), which was coming off a 14-day Easter layoff. The rebuilding Falcons are looking like last year's Division I semifinalist, even though most key hitters graduated. Senior Chris Testa started the season batting third but found success hitting leadoff. He has a region-high eight home runs and a .517 on-base percentage. The Cal State Northridge-bound center fielder has scored 20 runs in 15 games. Two separate radar guns radar gun n. A usually hand-held device that measures the velocity of a moving object by sending out a continuous radio wave and measuring the frequency of reflected waves. clocked Palmdale's Matt Harrington's fastball at 94 mph against Littlerock. Harrington (5-1, 1.96 ERA) has 61 strikeouts in 35 innings, including 26 strikeouts in his last 14. The junior is scheduled to start today at 3:15 p.m. against visiting Quartz Hill. Palmdale and Highland both have one league loss and Lancaster two. Meanwhile, Quartz Hill (6-10, 4-3) has its sights set on one of the league's three playoff spots according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. pitcher/designated hitter Travis Allen, who is 4-2 after beating Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley 8-1 on Friday. Marmonte: Royal needs one more win for a perfect record for the first half. Today's matchup against last-place Agoura might make the feat sound easy, but it's not. Royal hasn't beaten Agoura in their last four meetings. Last week, Falco was 10 for 12 with five home runs, three doubles and 14 RBI. He's batting .594. Westlake dropped to third after its 3-0 loss to Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. . But a 15-5 win against Crespi on Saturday has coach Chuck Berrington predicting his team can sweep the second half and take the title. Mid-Valley: Reseda is proof of the San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Valley's strength. The Regents won six games in the L.A. Umpires tournament but have now lost nine of their last 10 games - all to Valley teams. Coach Mike Stone believes just one team will make the playoffs and he hopes it will be in the division playoffs. ``We don't belong in the (City bracket),'' Stone said. ``Everything outside of the area we can handle, but we're not on the level of Poly and Sylmar and Chatsworth and El Camino (Real).'' Mission: Crespi coach Scott Muckey thinks the split last week with Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame gives Crespi the advantage in the league race. His reasoning: Notre Dame has swept Chaminade. Crespi faces Chaminade next week. But first comes Harvard-Westlake, which Chaminade demolished last week. Fortunately for Muckey, he might be able to save injured pitcher Tim Leveque until the Chaminade game. Harvard-Westlake's Matt Thayer showed last week he always plays hard when he ran out a ground ball with his team trailing by more than 20 runs. Northwest Valley: The City vetoed Chatsworth and Granada Hills' request to make up their game on May 20. Instead, the two teams will meet at Granada Hills April 30. After suffering a loss, Granada Hills has rebounded to win its next game four times this season. After losing to Palmdale, the Highlanders beat Thousand Oaks. After a loss to Carson came a win over Mountain View. After losing to Chatsworth, it came back to rout Birmingham. Now, a 12-1 loss to 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:
Pacific: Tim Balkey earned MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. honors in the Babe Herman Floyd Caves "Babe" Herman (June 26 1903 - November 27 1987) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who was best known for his several seasons with the Brooklyn Robins (now the Los Angeles Dodgers). tournament, which 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. won for the second straight year. Balkey was 7 for 10 in the tournament with three homers, seven RBI, two doubles and five runs scored. The pitching has been solid, with Kevin Rinder and Jordan Olson having ERAs at 1.01 or lower. Tri-Valley: Oak Park has won four of the last five titles, but coach Eric Pryor wasn't sure the Eagles could win this year until he saw the pitching. Middle relievers Keith Boldroff and Tommy Hayes have shut down the opposition, helping the Eagles win games in the seventh or eighth innings. DAILY NEWS TOP 10 No. School Record LW 1. Chatsworth 14-2 1 Don't believe this week's ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response ECR European Congress of Radiology ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance ECR El Camino Real (Kings Highway; California) ECR Electronic Cash Register ECR East Coast Radio (South Africa) series means everything 2. Crescenta Valley 14-1 2 The bats are waking up 3. Notre Dame 14-4 3 Knights thinking: Just don't slip 4. Camarillo 13-2 6 Back to work after a week off 5. Royal 12-2-1 9 Tough Marmonte games coming up 6. Crespi 14-5 5 Pitching depth a question with Leveque hurt 7. Hart 14-4 4 Probably happy to be back in league play 8. El Camino Real 13-3 10 Never needs motivation against Chatsworth 9. Granada Hills 12-4 7 Let's see Let's See was a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television between September 6, 1952 to July 4, 1953. The segment, which had a running time of 15 minutes, was a puppet show with a character named Uncle Chichimus (voice of John Conway), which presented each how Highlanders recover after ECR week 10. Thousand Oaks 11-4 NR Finally putting everything together CAPTION(S): Box BOX: DAILY NEWS TOP 10 (see text) |
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