CRESPI STAYS IN LEAGUE OF ITS OWN : CRESPI 1, ROYAL 0.Byline: Vic Seper Daily News Staff Writer Crespi High School's baseball team has done it again. The Celts The following pages provide lists of nations or people of Celtic origin, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping: Goidelic Celts
game - a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours" playoff - any final competition to determine a championship . Cuccias, a senior who will be attending California in the fall, struck out six Highlanders in as many innings, allowing only two hits with his submarine delivery to outduel Royal pitcher Matt Rainer. Cuccias was relieved in the top of the seventh inning by junior right-hander Brian Felten after walking leadoff hitter In baseball, a leadoff hitter is a batter who bats first in the lineup. Strategy Leadoff hitters must possess certain traits to be successful: they must reach base at a proficient rate and be able to steal bases. Zack Gordon. Felten, who shut out Moore League champion Lakewood 1-0 on Friday, strutted to the mound like a major-league stopper. After surrendering a sacrifice, Felton struck out Jason Rischel and Matt Pesso and set up the dramatic bottom half of the seventh. Christian Dempsey singled in Barry Matthews Barry Matthews is the current Chief Executive of the New Zealand Department of Corrections. He replaced Mark G Byers in February 2005. Matthews worked in public sectors of New Zealand and Australia for almost four decades. He was in the New Zealand Police from 1965 to 1999. , who reached on a fielder's choice field·er's choice n. Baseball A play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing base runner, thus allowing the batter to reach first base safely. Noun 1. , for the game's only run with one out. Celts players charged onto the field to celebrate. ``In that situation I wanted to be aggressive. My dad has always told me to be aggressive,'' said Dempsey, the son of 1983 World Series MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. Rick Dempsey Dempsey's 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 single was only the third hit of the game for the Celts. Crespi has managed only two runs in the first two playoff rounds, but its pitchers have yet to surrender a run. ``I'm going to fire the hitting coach,'' joked Crespi head coach Scott Muckey, who's also the hitting coach. It is no mystery how the Celts (22-7) have advanced to a quarterfinal matchup Friday against defending Division I champion Fountain Valley, a 17-1 winner over Arcadia. Felten and Cuccias have been near perfect. They are throwing strikes and striking out batters in key situations. Each has pitched his best game of the season in the playoffs. ``I love to go against these teams who think they are the best and knock them down one at a time,'' Felten said. The only threat for the Highlanders (24-3) came in the third inning. With Royal leadoff hitter Brent Egan on second, Adrian Mendoza singled to left field. Dempsey, who was playing left, charged the hard grounder and threw a strike to relay man Joey Gennaro. Gennaro bounced the throw to catcher Brian Luderer, who scooped the ball and applied the tag in time to cut down the sliding Egan. ``We couldn't ask our players to come out and play any better,'' Royal coach Dan Maye said. ``We have no reason to hang our heads. We accomplished (many) of our goals.'' Felten, who picked up the win and improved to 9-1 on the season, said, ``I just want to give our team a chance to win.'' He will get that chance on Friday, as the Celts try to do it again and knock off their third straight league champion. CRESPI PLAYOFF PITCHING PERFECTION Pitcher IP R H SO BB Brian Felten 8 0 2 8 3 Jon Cuccias 6 0 2 6 2 CAPTION(S): Photo, Chart Photo: Crepi High players celebrate their dramatic 1 -0 victory over Royal in a Southern Section Division I second-round playoff game at Valley College. Evan Yee / Daily News Chart: CRESPI PLAYOFF PITCHING PERFECTION (see text) |
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