COLLEGE BASEBALL REGIONAL: LONG BEACH ACE KEEPS PEPPERDINE WAVING.Byline: Chris Cocoles Staff Writer LONG BEACH - Pepperdine coach Frank Sanchez and first baseman Chris Kelly Chris Kelly may refer to the following persons:
``I was watching him for a long time right behind home plate seeing what he can do,'' Sanchez said. ``He looked good.'' He was wearing Team USA
Team USA (also known as Team NWA or Team TNA) is a wrestling faction brought together as part of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's X-Cup Tournaments, which colors when Kelly and Sanchez were in Ohio. Kelly also was impressed without actually stepping in against Alvarez. But there were so many Alvarez-quality arms assembled, it was difficult to single out the left-hander. And on a chilly Friday night at Blair Field Blair Field is a stadium in Long Beach, California. It originally opened in 1956 and is primarily used for baseball. It holds 3,238 people. Located in Recreation Park, Blair Field is one of the few semi-professional baseball facilities in California. , Kelly and his Waves teammates got within 60 feet, 6 inches of Alvarez in the NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean: Men's Sports
The top-seeded 49ers (39-18) will play in a winner's-bracket game at 3 p.m. against Washington. No. 4 Pepperdine (36-24) will try to stay alive against Minnesota at 11 a.m. Kelly was on a summer-league team that played Team USA. Alvarez (11-1) pitched an inning but never to the junior who leads the Waves in average, home runs and 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 . ``He's a good lefty,'' Kelly said at Thursday's practice. ``All his pitches move.'' Such as a wicked 1-2 offspeed pitch that Kelly waved at during a second- inning strikeout. By the time Kelly sparked a rare rally with a leadoff double in the seventh, Alvarez's sidearm side·arm adj. Sports Thrown with or marked by a sideways motion of the arm between shoulder and hip height and relatively parallel to the ground: a sidearm baseball pitch. delivery had Pepperdine hitters gasping and guessing. The second-team All-American gave up singles to Ty Harper and Brandon Daguio that weren't taken advantage of. The Waves finally broke through when Cory Brightwell scored Kelly with a single to right. Alvarez, who entered the postseason with a 10-1 record and 2.48 ERA, then walked Patrick Rooney to load the bases with one out and put the go-ahead run at-bat. With a once-docile bullpen buzzing with pitches, Alvarez bore down to get a called-third strike on Brett Haapanen and leave three aboard when Kevin Estrada lined out to shortstop. Alvarez allowed four hits and four walks with seven strikeouts in seven innings. Pepperdine junior Jacob Barrack's night couldn't have started any worse than serving up a home run to Todd Jennings on his first pitch. Jennings, the catcher coming back from an ankle injury, lined the ball over the left-field fence. That rattled Barrack BARRACK. By this term, as used in Pennsylvania, is understood an erection of upright posts supporting a sliding roof, usually of thatch. 5 Whart. R. 429. (9-3) long enough to give the 49ers a three-run first. Simi Valley's Jered Weaver will start for Long Beach today. Weaver (13-3, 1.99) was named a first-team All-American by Collegiate Baseball on Friday. --Washington 5, Minnesota 3: Tila Reynolds' eighth-inning single and Will Fenton's 11th save lifted the Huskies (41-16) past the Gophers (39-21). |
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