BOTTOM LINE: 'HAWKS HELP HIGH DESERT HIGH DESERT 8, JETHAWKS 2.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer LANCASTER - After winning titles in both halves and clinching home-field advantage in the divisional playoffs, the JetHawks are playing out the remainder of the regular season for pride alone. The High Desert Mavericks The High Desert Mavericks are a minor league baseball team in Adelanto, California, USA. Their Major League parent club is the Seattle Mariners. They are a "high-A" class team in the California League, and had been a farm team of the Kansas City Royals since 2005 before the switch. , their last regular-season opponent, was locked in a tight race with Single-A Dayton (Ohio) for the worst record in the minor leagues. The battle for the bottom - or at least trying to avoid it - turned out to be a motivational factor Sunday in the Mavericks' 8-2 victory over the JetHawks in front of 1,508 at Lancaster Municipal Stadium. The Mavericks (49-90) got some help from more than halfway across the country. A 7-3 Battle Creek Battle Creek, city (1990 pop. 53,540), Calhoun co., S Mich., at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers; settled 1831, inc. as a city 1859. It is an agricultural trade center known for its cereals. (Mich.) victory over Dayton (47-92) means High Desert avoids having the worst record regardless of what happens when the Mavericks play the JetHawks tonight in the regular-season finale for both teams. JetHawks starter Jesus Silva sil·va also syl·va n. pl. sil·vas or sil·vae 1. The trees or forests of a region. 2. A written work on the trees or forests of a region. (11-7) allowed five runs (three earned) on eight hits. JetHawks outfielder Jon Zeringue, who is limited to being the designated hitter designated hitter n. Baseball Abbr. DH A player designated at the start of a game to bat instead of the pitcher in the lineup. Noun 1. after breaking a finger Thursday, hit his ninth homer of the season. Center fielder Jarred Ball saved two runs in the seventh when he made a diving A DIV Associate of Divinity catch in right-center field. Gideon Rubin, (818) 713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com |
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