BASEBALL BEAT THE FANTASTIC FOUR.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer Saugus has a capable bullpen. At least that's what the Centurions think. They wouldn't know for sure, though, since their four starters have done so well that relief is rarely needed. ``Those four have really been fantastic,'' Saugus coach Casey Burrill said of starters Casey Benesch, Kyle Love, Chris Alheim and Scott Pellett. ``They've been throwing well and throwing long. There is a bullpen there, they just haven't been used. They've been throwing bullpens and keeping their arms in shape, but as for how they'd do in games, we haven't had to go to them, so I can't tell you for sure.'' Benesch is 1-2 in league play but has been effective enough to gain attention from scouts. He is receiving significant interest from Loyola Marymount. Both he and Love average more than seven strikeouts a game. Even the No. 4 starter, Pellett, was solid in Monday's game against a strong Glendora lineup. He allowed five hits and two earned runs in the 3-0 loss. ``We've been getting great pitching performances,'' Burrill said. ``But the offense hasn't been doing much.'' The pitchers have helped the Centurions remain in contention in the Foothill League a year after finishing fifth in the six-team race. Saugus is tied for second with Canyon entering next week's series against Valencia. A GOOD LERNER Having a close family friend who is a former major-league catcher enabled Montclair Prep's Landon Lerner to spend years absorbing information about his dream career. Lerner, a junior at the Van Nuys school, started training with former Dodgers catcher Steve Yeager
``Everything about catching that I know, I learned from him,'' Lerner said. ``He's taught me a lot about actual catching, but he's also taught me to focus your enthusiasm, your anger, your nervousness or whatever it is and turn it into something positive on the field.'' Lerner earned All-Delphic League honors as a sophomore and is likely to receive several more honors before his career is over. The honors student An honors student is a student in elementary, middle, or high school recognized for achieving high grades. Honors students are recognized on lists published periodically throughout the school year, known as "honor rolls". is attracting attention from a variety of colleges. ``He blocks balls as well as anyone I've seen,'' Montclair Prep coach Mark Saracino said. ``And he has been throwing out runners on a consistent basis. Runners on first and third, it doesn't really matter, we let him throw through.'' In a recent game, Lerner threw out three runners and picked one off first base. He does the same thing in practice. ``I tell him at times just go easy, it's not the time to get hurt,'' Saracino said. ``But he's always going hard.'' BIG ON TALENT No, that isn't the junior varsity team For the American rock band, see . In sports, usually at the high school and college levels, members of a team who are not the main players in a competition (such as a football or basketball game) are called junior varsity players. taking the field for Royal of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. . The Highlanders' lack of size just makes them appear that way - until they start to play. ``Teams see us and they go, `This doesn't look like a real intimidating team,' '' said Royal coach Dan Maye, whose team is ranked eighth in Division II. The Highlanders are loaded with seniors but are one of the shortest groups Maye has had. At 6-foot-6, 245 pounds, senior right-hander Dan Fischer towers over his teammates. Only two other regulars are at least 6-foot. The tallest infielder is senior shortstop Chris Dusablon. ``He says he's 5-10, but that's pushing it,'' Maye said. Instead of the power hitting it counted on in recent years with players such as Brian Lipman - the region's co-leader in career home runs - Royal is relying more on solid defense, pitching and base hits. The formula kept the Highlanders in first place in the Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. until last week's loss to Westlake. LEAGUE UPDATES MISSION Crespi's 4.36 team ERA confirms the team's preseason fear that it would no longer be the stingy stin·gy adj. stin·gi·er, stin·gi·est 1. Giving or spending reluctantly. 2. Scanty or meager: a stingy meal; stingy with details about the past. pitching-rich program of recent years. Even freshman Trevor Plouffe, who burst on to the scene by throwing a no-hitter in his debut, has seen his ERA soar to 5.14. This year, it is the Celts' hitting that gets things done for the Celts The following pages provide lists of nations or people of Celtic origin, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping: Goidelic Celts
However, the hitting has not always been enough. The three-time defending league champions are in second place and are coming off a 4-2 nonleague loss to Agoura on Tuesday. VALLEY MISSION If a Gonzalez is pitching for 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. , count on a lot of strikeouts. In addition to senior right-hander Abraham Gonzalez, who has 58 strikeouts in 47, including 11 in five innings Tuesday, the Tigers now have junior right-hander Miguel Gonzalez Miguel Gonzalez (born September 25, 1987 in Miami, Florida) is an American soccer player who plays midfielder for the New England Revolution in Major League Soccer. Gonzalez spent two years in the Santos Laguna youth system, before joining the Bradenton Academy in 2006. racking up strikeouts. Miguel relieved Abraham against Birmingham on Tuesday and struck out the Patriots in order in the sixth, giving him 14 strikeouts in seven innings. PACIFIC VIEW Camarillo is known for winning with power. The Scorpions have hit at least 40 home runs in four of the past five seasons, but they are having to find other ways to win this year. More than halfway through the season, Camarillo has just 12 home runs. Delmon Young Delmon Damarcus Young, (born September 14, 1985 in Montgomery, Alabama), the younger brother of Dmitri Young, is an outfielder on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and was, arguably, the top hitting prospect in baseball as of the end of the 2005 minor-league baseball season. has a team-high three. A drop in 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 by Young - he entered the week with just eight after leading the team with 40 last year as a freshman - has also increased the need for other contributors. Among those who have stepped up is Andrew Berkovich, who entered the week with a team-high .458 batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. and 21 RBI. He hit a grand slam grand slam n. 1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games. 2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit. in a 12-1 victory over Oxnard on Tuesday. ALPHA L.A. Baptist is undefeated in league play and Andrew Peterson For Andrew Peterson, professional American soccer player, click here Andrew Peterson is an American singer-songwriter who plays Christian folk music. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Jamie, sons Aedan and Asher, and daughter Skye. is largely responsible. Peterson entered the week batting a team-high .518 and had taken over the region lead in home runs (eight) and RBI (28). He is also 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA as a pitcher. DAILY NEWS TOP 10 Records through Wednesday No. Team Record LW 1. Chatsworth 16-0 1 2. Hart18-0 2 3. Westlake 13-3-1 6 4. Chaminade 10-24 5. Lancaster 13-4-1 3 6. Camarillo 14-5 7 7. Royal 13-4 5 8. San Fernando 14-3 8 9. Kennedy 11-5 9 10. Calabasas 12-4 NR SEVEN-DAY FORECAST Game of the week: 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:
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) . Potential hero: Lucio Tapia's three-run home run in Birmingham's victory over San Fernando on Tuesday was just his second of the season. it was also his second in a week. After a slow start, Tapia's bat is heating up, making him a prime candidate to lead the Patriots' quest to remain in contention in the West Valley League when they face Granada Hills twice next week. Potential upset: No one has been able to beat Canyon junior Jake Coash (5-0) this season. However, now comes what might be the left-hander's biggest challenge: Hart, which hasn't lost a league game this year. Coash, who averages more than 10 strikeouts, is scheduled to start against the Indians on Tuesday. KEEPING TABS Westlake graduate Scott Dragicevich had a career-high four hits to go along with two RBI Tuesday for No. 1 Stanford in an 18-13 victory over Nevada. ... Cal freshman Brian Horwitz
Brian Horwitz (born November 7, 1982, in Santa Monica, California) is an American baseball player in the San Francisco Giants organization. , from Crespi of Encino, went 3 for 5 with two RBI in a victory over San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. State on Tuesday. ... El Camino Real graduate Woody Ciffords is the third-leading hitter for Pepperdine. The junior is batting .342 with 21 RBI. ... Junior Mike Byer, from Royal of Simi Valley, has a team-high four wins for Saint Mary's Saint Mary's, island, Scilly Islands Saint Mary's, England: see Scilly Islands. (13-21). ALUMNI WANTED Former baseball all-stars are invited to play in an alumni game in association with the 25th Daily News Bernie Milligan All-Star Game An all-star game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their sports league. The players are often chosen by a popular vote of fans of the sport and the game often occurs at the halfway point of the regular season, although this is not the case for some all-star games . Anyone on a previous Milligan Game roster is eligible for the June 9 game. To register, call (818) 713-3627. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). . Chatsworth moved up to No. 3 in this week's Baseball America national rankings. ... Valencia outfielder/pitcher Richie Martin committed to UC Santa Barbara. ... Agoura catcher Chris Denove signed with UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . ... Royal of Simi Valley senior pitcher Jason Urquidez has been declared academically ineligible. He was 2-1 with a 0.80 ERA in six games. He is the third pitcher from the original staff of nine the Highlanders have lost to grades. ... Former Calabasas second baseman Scott Nasby, who moved to Missouri as a sophomore but continued to play with his former California teammates during the summer, has signed with Southwestern Missouri State. He is batting .519 for Glendale High in Springfield, Mo. ... Hart of Newhall's Bill Susdorf was named 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. of the Villa Park tournament. He earned four saves in three days as the Indians won the tournament title. ... The game between Crescenta Valley and El Camino Real of Woodland Hills on Tuesday included a combined 14 errors. CAPTION(S): photo, 5 boxes Photo: SAUGUS' KYLE LOVE Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News Box: (1) DAILY NEWS TOP 10 (see text) (2) SEVEN-DAY FORECAST (see text) (3) KEEPING TABS (see text) (4) ALUMNI WANTED (see text) (5) ETC. (see text) |
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