BREAKS GO ECR'S WAY TIMELY HITS, GOOD PITCHING HELP BEAT T.O. AND WIN TITLE ECR 7, T. OAKS 0.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer Chad Boyd wanted to ease the memory of his previous game. He did a good job of doing so with is performance in the 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:
adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. on Saturday at Birmingham High in 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). . Boyd went 2 for 4, stole a base and pitched four scoreless innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. to earn the win and player of the game honors. ``It was refreshing after Thursday,'' Boyd said, referring to Thursday's 5-3 loss to Sylmar, in which he gave up five runs in the first 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. and was replaced by the fourth inning. ``I pitched bad - really bad - that's what went wrong in that game.'' This time the bad breaks were reserved for Thousand Oaks (7-2), which suffered its second consecutive defeat after a 7-0 start. The Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. committed two errors, including a two-base throwing error in the second inning that brought in two runs for a 4-0 ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response 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) lead. Control problems hurt Thousand Oaks' pitchers from the start. Starter Travis Erickson, who lasted only 1 1/3 innings, and Brian Bird combined to hit four batters. The Conquistadores (6-1) only made things worse. Boyd didn't allow a hit until the third inning, and when the Lancers did reach base, Boyd (2-1) and reliever Blake Gailen had a combined three pickoffs. Boyd, who knew he likely wouldn't be pitching a full game since he is scheduled to start Tuesday's West Valley League opener, allowed two hits in four innings before being relieved by Gailen. By that point, ECR was already up 6-0. Rodney McMahon capped the scoring with a leadoff home run in the fifth inning. Boyd had a leadoff double in the sixth and advanced to third on a wild pitch but was stranded there. Ryan Richardson started the scoring with a two-run single in the first. ``We're going to give it a run this year,'' Boyd said. ``This is a good start. That's definitely a boost going into league.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) Rodney McMahon's leadoff homer in the fifth inning capped El Camino Real's scoring in its 7-0 championship victory Saturday. Below, El Camino Real's Rodney McMahon (20) is greeted at home plate by Zach Kaplan after hitting a home run Joel P. Lugavere/Special to the Daily News |
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