BASEBALL NOTEBOOK: 'CLOSE' NOT ENOUGH FOR HART.Byline: Heather Gripp Gripp talking raven, beloved pet of half-wit Barnaby Rudge. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Barnaby Rudge] See : Birds Staff Writer The first few weeks of the season allowed the Hart High baseball team to establish that it can compete with quality teams. Now the Indians INDIANS. The aborigines of this country are so called. 2. In general, Indians have no political rights in the United States; they cannot vote at the general elections for officers, nor hold office. want to prove they can beat such teams. Hart enters today's game against Burroughs of Burbank having played several close games against top teams, but with a 3-5 record. ``Our schedule has been very difficult,'' Hart coach Jim Ozella said. ``We've been in every game. ... It's encouraging, but there's not a third column. It doesn't say wins, losses and close. If we're satisfied with close we're not going to be very good.'' Hart lost two one-run games against West Torrance on Wednesday, then opened Foothill League play with a 4-0 loss to Saugus on Friday. The Indians lost the first game against West Torrance 6-5. The teams hit the road and played a second game under the lights 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). , but a change of location didn't change the outcome as Hart lost 5-4 to the Div. II top-10 team. The Indians' other losses were 7-5 to Moorpark and 2-1 to Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. , both teams with winning records and several lopsided victories lop´sid`ed victory n. 1. A victory in a contest in which one side defeats the other overwhelmingly; - in sports, meaning one side scores much more than the other; in war, meaning one side has many more casualties than the other. . ``I don't think we're in trouble,'' Ozella said. ``But the trouble with our league is you don't watch out, you could find yourself behind the eight ball. There are no easy games. We talked to our kids about every game is important.'' --Fantastic Pfau: Saugus senior left-hander Jason Pfau (1-1) pitched a complete-game one-hitter in the league opener against Hart. He retired the side in order in the first three innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. . Pfau, who lowered his ERA to 0.58, became just the second pitcher to one-hit the Indians. --It's out of here: Saugus (5-2, 1-1) became the first team of the season to hit a home run against Hart when Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs Milone hit one in the fourth 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. Friday. It was Milone's first home run of the season. The Centurions have just two home runs entering today's game against Burbank. --Winning ways resume: Valencia (4-3, 2-0), which began the season nationally ranked and favored to contend for a Southern Section title, has a winning record for the first time this season after defeating Saugus 7-3 on Saturday. The Vikings were the only Foothill team to appear in the initial Southern Section rankings released last week. Valencia was No. 5 in Div. II. The Vikings go for their fifth consecutive victory when they face Canyon (4-2, 1-0) today. Heather Gripp, (818) 713-3607 heather.gripp(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Entering today's game against Burbank, Saugus has managed to hit just two home runs. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion