CITY SECTION: ECR MOVES ON TO SEMIS.Byline: Daily News 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:
The second-seeded Conquistadores advanced to Tuesday's semifinals against Kennedy of Granada Hills by defeating visiting Poly of Sun Valley 10-0 Friday in a quarterfinal game called in the fifth 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. because of the 10-run 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. . El Camino Real's Eric Pettis and Brett Bossuk held Poly to one hit, and Ryan Lavarnway and Casey Greene led the Conquistadores' offense with back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning. ``Our hitting's going to follow our pitching,'' El Camino Real coach Matt LaCour said. ``We have good pitching and the hitters feed off that. Eric pitched outstanding today and the offense picked it up.'' Pettis allowed only two base runners in four innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. . He struck out three and walked none in a 57-pitch outing before Bossuk retired the side in order in the fifth. Ricky Garcia singled with one out in the second for seventh-seeded Poly's lone hit. The only other Parrot to reach base was Christian Aredondo, who was hit by a pitch in the fourth. El Camino Real scored early, with Greene and Dominic D'Anna each driving in a run in the first inning. By the second inning the Conquistadores (26-6) were up 5-0. Lavarnway and Greene capped the scoring with their seventh home runs each. Shaun Kort, Lavarnway and Greene had two hits each and combined for seven 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 . ``We're feeling great and playing the way we need to at this point in the season,'' Greene said. The result Friday was much more pleasing for El Camino Real than in its previous meeting with Poly (21-10). A fight during a nonleague matchup last month caused the Conquistadores to forfeit To lose to another person or to the state some privilege, right, or property due to the commission of an error, an offense, or a crime, a breach of contract, or a neglect of duty; to subject property to confiscation; or to become liable for the payment of a penalty, as the result of a the game they were winning in addition to a league game two days later. ``I wouldn't say we had anything to prove,'' Greene said. ``Everyone knew we were winning. But we wanted to make sure they knew that wasn't going to happen again, we weren't going to lose.'' - Heather Gripp In other City quarterfinals: --Kennedy 13, San Pedro 6: Jacob Miranda and Hector Sepulveda hit grand slams grand slam 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. as the host Cougars (26-7) of Granada Hills came from behind with an 11-run fifth inning. Sepulveda finished with a game-high three hits for the third-seeded Cougars. --Chatsworth 5, Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). 4:Mitul Patel hit an RBI triple and walked twice as defending national champion Chatsworth managed to sneak by visiting Palisades. --South Gate 3, Cleveland 0: South Gate's Isaac Morales (10-1) pitched 6 2/3 shutout innings and went 2 for 3 with an RBI as the No. 4 Rams (30-4) eliminated visiting Cleveland of Reseda (23-9). |
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