CHAMINADE ROLLS INTO QUARTERFINALS : CHAMINADE 4, BURROUGHS 1.Byline: Bill Schlotter Daily News Staff Writer He may be Chaminade's No. 2 pitcher, but Bruce Greenwood Stuart Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor. Biography Personal life Greenwood was born July 12 1956 in Noranda, Quebec is the No. 1 reason the top-seeded Eagles will play in the Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. quarterfinals of the Southern Section playoffs Friday. Greenwood pitched five innings of two-hit shutout ball Tuesday in leading Chaminade to a 4-1 victory over free-swinging Foothill League champion Burroughs in Burbank. The 6-foot-3 junior struck out five and had a perfect game going until hitting Indians first baseman Anthony Fabrizio with a pitch to lead off the fifth inning. ``Greenwood pitched heck of a game,'' said Chaminade coach Scott Drootin. ``Everybody thinks (Chris) Gray is the guy who wins for us, but Greenwood does it too. He's good.'' Chaminade plays Redondo Union High School Redondo Union High School is a public high school in Redondo Beach, California. Redondo Union High School is a part of the Redondo Beach Unified School District. All residents of Redondo Beach are zoned to Redondo Union. , an 8-4 winner Tuesday over Westlake, in Friday's quarterfinals. The heart of the Burroughs order has pounded opponents this season. But against Greenwood (8-1), No. 3 man Tommy Perez (.486), cleanup hitter In baseball, the cleanup hitter is the hitter who bats fourth in the lineup. Strategy Cleanup hitters often have the most power on the team and are typically the team's best all-around hitter; their job is to "clean up the bases", hence the name. Anthony Fabrizio (.549, nine home runs) and No. 5 hitter Wes Hutchison were a combined 0 for 5. ``He was just hitting his spots,'' said Eagles second baseman second baseman n. Baseball The infielder who is positioned near and to the first-base side of second base. Noun 1. second baseman - (baseball) the person who plays second base second sacker Chris Martinez. ``Greenwood has really stepped up for us this year.'' Martinez has been stepping up, too. His third-inning solo homer Noun 1. solo homer - a home run with no runners on base solo blast home run, homer - a base hit on which the batter scores a run - his third this season - gave the Eagles (26-2) a 1-0 lead. He drove in another run in the two-run fifth inning with a single. Eagles right fielder Dan Dworsky also had an 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 in the fifth. The hard-hitting Indians got fine pitching from sophomore Tony Sandoval (6-3), who went the distance and took the loss. Sandoval allowed eight hits and was stung by an error and a pair of wild pitches in addition to Martinez's home run. But Sandoval didn't get much help from Indians batters, who managed just three hits. ``We didn't swing the bats well,'' said Burroughs coach Jose Valle, whose Indians (19-8) lost for just the second time at home this season. ``And we just couldn't get any breaks. We hit a couple of liners right into people's gloves in the sixth.'' The Indians run came in the seventh, when John Moreno's bases-loaded grounder to second base drove home Robert Barillas. |
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