DAILY NEWS INVITATIONAL\Westlake upsets No. 1 Kennedy behind Carr.Byline: Daily News What did it take to edge the area's No. 1-ranked and defending City 4-A champion Kennedy High School baseball team? Try Tim Carr. The 6-foot-5, 195-pound Westlake High senior bound for Arizona State with a command of three pitches, outlasted the visiting Cougars 7-6 Saturday in the final game for each team in the Daily News Invitational. Carr (2-0) settled down after allowing three runs in the top of the first inning to strike out 10 with a dominating fastball in the high-80s, plus a curveball and split-finger fastball. It was the first defeat in five games for Kennedy, which is rated No. 5 nationally by Baseball America  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . magazine. "I was confident to call any of Tim's pitches when he got into his groove," offered battery-mate Mike McHargue, who also provided the needed offense, going 2-3 with a double and three 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 . The effort of the Cougars' 6-5 Jon Garland Jon Steven Garland (born September 27, 1979 in Valencia, California) is a right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox. Garland was selected by the Chicago Cubs with the 10th pick of the 1997 amateur draft. didn't go unnoticed. The junior right-hander threw five innings, striking out five and hit a two-run home run to left center in the fifth inning that gave the ranked Cougars a 5-4 lead. Westlake coach David Wilder David Wilder was the Chicago White Sox director of player development for 2005.[1] References 1. ^ White Sox Press Release, Official White Sox site, 14 February 2007, (accessed 03 March,2007) and McHargue opted to pitch to Garland with an open base and two outs. "We would have at least pitched around him, if we had to do it again," McHargue said. The Warriors, unranked at 3-3, answered in the bottom half of the inning with three runs behind Tyler Kostjuk's two-run single, giving the Warriors a two-run cushion. Kennedy's Aldo Pinto pinto Spotted horse, also called paint, piebald, skewbald, and other terms to describe variations in colour and markings. The American Indian ponies of the western U.S. were often pintos. Most pure-breed associations refuse to register horses with pinto colouring. added a solo home run to center field in the top of the seventh for the game's final run. Scouts and fans alike traveled to Westlake to see the much-anticipated matchup between Carr and Garland. For Garland, it was his first high school pitching defeat after going 7-0 last season and 1-0 this season. "(Kennedy) is very much a fundamentally sound team," said Carr, who scattered six hits and walked five in a complete-game victory. "We came out and gave it a go and fell short," Garland said. It was an important win for a Westlake team that had experimented early in the tournament, playing lots of players in losses to Monroe and 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:
By beating Kennedy, the Warriors showed they can be strong contenders in the Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. , especially with the hard-throwing Carr on the mound. Kennedy, El Camino Real (4-1), San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. (4-1) and Cleveland (4-1) all finished tied for first place in the 18-team Daily News Invitational. |
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