BASEBALL PLAYOFFS; HART VICTORY OVER NORTH VALLEY SENDS IT TO BRONCO WEST ZONE.Byline: Lee Barnathan Daily News Staff Writer Just like they did when they were younger, members of the William S. Hart Bronco bronco: see mustang. baseball team reached back and found that something extra, earning them a trip to the next round. The group of 11- and 12-year-olds soundly defeated North Valley 16-4Tuesday night in Covina after losing the first game 7-5. The win sends Hart into the West Zone tournament, which begins Friday in Whittier. Hart will face Hawaii at 5 p.m. in the double-elimination tournament A double-elimination tournament is a competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two games or matches. . The tournament's winner will move on to next week's World Series in Monterey. This is the same group that stumbled in the Pinto pinto Spotted horse, also called paint, piebald, skewbald, and other terms to describe variations in colour and markings. The American Indian ponies of the western U.S. were often pintos. Most pure-breed associations refuse to register horses with pinto colouring. division when its members were 7 and 8, only to rebound and win the West Zone. In the Mustang division, the group won the zone and finished third at the World Series. After faltering against North Valley, the bats came out as they often do. Matt Aidem homered twice, and Mike Scripture, Jonathan Porter and Wes Pascolla homered once each. Pascolla drove in three, Aidem had two 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 Daniel Worth had three hits. Scripture pitched the first two innings, and Brandon Bradsher pitched the final three. The mercy rule A mercy rule, also well known by the slightly less polite term slaughter rule (or, less commonly, knockout rule and skunk rule), brings a sports event to an early end when one team has a very large and presumably insurmountable lead over the other team. ended the game after five innings. Hart manager Wendall Worth said he won't have time to scout Hawaii, but he knows the state typically sends ``above-average'' players to these tournaments. |
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