CRESPI SURVIVES THANKS TO PLOUFFE'S SHUTOUT CRESPI 1, TORRANCE 0.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer The Crespi High of Encino baseball team got to skip the wild-card round this time. But that's where the route to a potential Southern Section championship stopped being easier than a year ago for the team that is this time seeded first in its division. Senior Trevor Plouffe threw a four-hitter and struck out 12 as 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 Friday at Valley College. Torrance sophomore right-hander Jesse Dominguez held Crespi to just two hits. ``It's a complete opposite, and exactly the same,'' Plouffe said, comparing this year's postseason to last year's in which the Celts advanced through the wild-card round as the Mission League's third-place representative to win the program's first Southern Section title. ``We're going to take it to 'em hard every game we play. We have to be ready for a tough game every time, so it's not any different than last year.'' Torrance (15-15), the third-place team from the Ocean League, made it clear that such an approach was necessary. The unseeded Tartars Tartars: see Tatars. Tartars 13th-century rapacious hordes of Genghis Khan. [Medieval Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1064] See : Savagery held Crespi hitless until the fourth, the 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. in which the Celts (24-4) got both of their hits. Plouffe scored the game's lone run after leading off the fourth with a walk and advancing home on a wild throw to third after Nick Santoro had singled for Crespi's first hit. Shaunt Bedrosian followed with a single and later reached third on a wild pitch but was stranded there as Dominguez faced the minimum number of batters the rest of the way. ``We weren't expecting the caliber of pitcher he was,'' Plouffe said of Dominguez. ``He did a good job. He did a really good job.'' Plouffe (10-1) wasn't too bad either. The All-American right-hander, who finished the regular season with a no-hitter, was in typical form as he struck out the first four batters he faced. The streak ended with an infield single by Toby Brooks, but Plouffe was out of the inning within two pitches thanks to a double-play comebacker. Torrance put two runners in scoring position In the sport of baseball, a baserunner is said to be in scoring position when he is on second or third base. The distinction between being on first base and second or third base is that a runner on first can usually only score if the batter hits an extra base hit, while a runner on in the third, but Plouffe ended the rally with a strikeout strike·out n. Baseball Abbr. K or SO An out made by a batter charged with three strikes and credited to the pitcher who threw the strikes. Noun 1. . He added three more strikeouts in the fourth after allowing a leadoff single. Plouffe has 25 strikeouts in his past two starts. Heather Gripp, (818) 713-3607 heather.gripp(at)dailynews.com |
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