BASEBALL NOTEBOOK: HART ON A ROLL AT RIGHT TIME.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer The likelihood of the Hart High baseball team qualifying for the Southern Section playoffs was less and less by late April, when the Indians fell below .500 and struggled to stay in the Foothill League's top three. But things couldn't be much brighter for the Indians than they are heading into today's second round of the Div. II playoffs. Hart continued its late-season surge with a 14-1 upset of Westlake, which was coming off a fourth consecutive 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. title. ``Everyone is finally coming together and realizing we don't need to hit home runs all the time to win,'' Indians senior catcher Ian Feldman said. ``The home runs will happen sometimes, but that's not how we win. We win by doing the little things right.'' Little things might be the keys to Hart's success, but the Indians (15-12) also did plenty of big things Friday. Senior Danny Williams Danny Williams may refer to:
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. to put the Indians up 7-0 by the fifth inning. He also contributed two of the team's seven doubles to finish with 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 and improve his team-high 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. to .426. Hart is making a habit of using doubles to do its damage. The Indians have only 26 home runs - nine from Chris Valaika - but they have 60 doubles. Valaika hit his 14th double of season Friday, tying him for second on Hart's single-season list. Feldman drove in the game's first run with his ninth double of the season. Since losing to league champion Valencia on Apr. 25, the Indians have won seven of eight games, the only loss being to Div. I power Arlington of Riverside. Next up is Santiago of Corona. Santiago (21-6) is the Mountain View League champion and is coming off a 4-1 victory over La Serna La Serna may refer to: People
--Going the distance: Hart senior left-hander Kyle Boggio (8-4) threw his seventh complete game Friday. He is one shy of the program record established by Andrew Lorraine Andrew Jason Lorraine (born August 11, 1972, in Los Angeles, California), is a left-handed professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1994-2002. in 1989 and tied by Justin Wiley in 1999. --The newcomer: Hart's Brian Loeb was promoted 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. for the playoffs. The outfielder/pitcher appeared as a pinch runner and scored in the sixth inning Friday. --Tough road ahead: Valencia (21-6) opened the playoffs with a 9-2 victory over El Rancho of Pico Rivera, but the Vikings know things won't be so easy the rest of the way. Valencia plays host to Orange County power El Dorado of Placentia in today's second round. A victory likely would earn the Vikings a matchup with No. 1 seed Quartz Hill in Friday's quarterfinals. |
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