CITY SECTION ROUNDUP: PLAYOFF OPENER A ROUGH RIDE FOR KENNEDY.Byline: Daily News Kennedy of Granada Hills knew it was going to have a tough first-round game when the City Section baseball seedings were announced and its opponent was going to be Roosevelt of East Los Angeles East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. . The Roughriders (22-8-1) had no trouble performing to expectations as they upset the defending City champions 5-3 in Friday's championship bracket opener at Kennedy. Kennedy junior Adam Geery was tapped for 12 hits and pitched into trouble constantly but it was two bloop bloop Baseball n. A blooper. tr.v. blooped, bloop·ing, bloops To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield. adj. Hit just beyond the infield. singles in the sixth inning that gave the visiting Roughriders a 5-1 lead. The junior pitcher, who led the Cougars in last year's victory over 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 threat, however, was erased when Geery (108 pitches, 63 for strikes) followed with three consecutive strikeouts. Geery was 3 for 3 at the plate but never scored despite reaching third base twice. 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. Eric Moore Eric Moore is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1966 and 1972 for the Richmond Football Club and then from mid-1972 until mid-1973 for the South Melbourne Football Club. (1 for 3) had a run-scoring double in the fourth inning, bringing in Kevin Hubbard with a run to cut Roosevelt's lead to 2-1. Isaac Montes mon·tes n. Plural of mons. also had a scoring double in the sixth before scoring on Tim St. Pierre's groundout, which was mishandled by third baseman Ruben Brito. Kennedy had a chance to tie the score in the seventh inning, when it loaded the bases with one out. But the inning was interrupted by a 12-minute discussion between Kennedy coach Manny Manny may refer to: In nobility:
2. Ground rent deeds and leases frequently contain a clause authorizing the landlord to reenter on the non-payment of rent, or the breach of some covenant, when the of pitcher Francisco Figueroa. Once the rule books were brought out and the protest was settled, Figueroa struck out Moore and got Chris Schreiber to fly out to end the game. - Julio Cortez In the Championship bracket: --Granada Hills 9, Sylmar 0: It took the Highlanders a while to shake the cobwebs cob·web n. 1. a. The web spun by a spider to catch its prey. b. A single thread spun by a spider. 2. Something resembling the web of a spider in gauziness or flimsiness. 3. after 10 days off, but once they got going it was double trouble for the Spartans at Granada Hills. There was no score heading into the fifth inning, when Sylmar starter Marco Estrada (10-2) seemed to hit a wall as the seventh-seeded Highlanders hit ball after ball off the outfield wall, drilling six doubles in the next two innings. First baseman Scott Rapkin began the barrage with a double to give Granada Hills (20-11) a 3-0 lead. Erik Hagstrom led off the sixth inning with another double that chased Estrada. But reliever Jamie Mah couldn't stop the onslaught, allowing doubles to winning pitcher Eddie Degerman (9-2) and again to Rapkin, who finished with four 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 . - Matthew Kredell --San Fernando 19, Wilson 1: The fifth-seeded Tigers (24-7) sent 17 batters to the plate in the first inning and came away with twelve runs en route to a first-round victory over the 12th-seeded Mules of Los Angeles (16-11). Wilson needed two pitchers in the inning to retire the side. Starter Daniel Heras (6-2) allowed six runs (five earned). Andrew Yanez replaced Heras and subsequently gave up six more runs before the inning ended. San Fernando got two hits and two RBI from sophomore Pedro Montero mon·te·ro n. pl. mon·te·ros A hunter's cap with side flaps. [Spanish, hunter, from monte, mountain, from Latin m , a game-opening double from Rudy Lemos and three innings of scoreless, one-hit ball from starting pitcher Jess Moreno, who also had two hits and three RBI. - Richard Perkins In the Invitational bracket: --El Camino Real 10, Fremont 1: Greg Acheatel had a no-hitter through five innings before giving up a double, settling for a one-hitter in the top-seeded Conquistadores' win at El Camino Real of Woodland Hills. Christian Hariot had three hits and Jason Kort had two RBI for El Camino Real (14-13). --North Hollywood 2, Franklin 0: Erick Melara (4-5) allowed two hits and struck out seven for the host Huskies (17-13) in the win over the Panthers (8-18). Melara threw 70 pitches, 51 for strikes, and didn't allow a runner past second base. D.J. Lewis homered for the Huskies. --Eagle Rock 7, Grant 3: Jeronimo Real had two of the Eagles' seven doubles in their win at Grant of Van Nuys (14-14). Eddie Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the allowed three runs on eight hits for Eagle Rock (14-9). --Van Nuys 5, Marshall 1: Edgar De La Cueva allowed one run on three hits to help the Wolves (9-17) win at Marshall of Los Angeles. --Cleveland 3, Garfield 1: Byron Grubman had two RBI for the host the Cavaliers (20-11) of Reseda. --San Pedro 7, Verdugo Hills 6: The visiting Dons of Sunland blew a 5-0 lead in a loss to the Pirates (12-12-1). |
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