DAY IN SPORTS: ST. FRANCIS PITCHER DOES IT ALL.Byline: Daily News The Paraclete of Lancaster baseball team likely won't forget Andy Marquardt any time soon. The St. Francis High of La Canada junior pitched a complete-game three-hitter and hit a grand slam grand slam n. 1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games. 2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit. Monday as the Golden Knights
``He was very sharp. He looked like he was in midseason form,'' St. Francis coach Mike Solar said. ``His fastball was working and he located his pitches well. He was dominant.'' Marquardt kept Paraclete hitters off balance throughout, striking out six and walking one. He threw 91 pitches, 63 for strikes. He was equally effective at the plate, and his opposite-field grand slam in the seventh capped a six-run inning. ``He got a pitch he could handle,'' Solar said. ``It was a no-doubter. What a day.'' Teammate Matt LaRussa was 3 for 5 with two 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 for St. Francis (2-0), which plays host Pasadena in the second round of pool play at 3:15 p.m. Thursday. A victory advances the Golden Knights into the winners bracket Saturday. GIRLS' SOFTBALL softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' Nonleague --Highland 3, Canyon 0: Lauren Tantlinger pitched a complete-game four-hitter with two strikeouts for visiting Highland of Palmdale (3-0), which made the most of four Canyon errors. Tantlinger, a junior, also was a threat at the plate, going 2 for 3 with home runs in the fourth and sixth innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. . Breanna Morales tripled for Highland. --El Camino Real 5, Kennedy 0: Megan Miller pitched a complete-game two-hitter, striking out seven for 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:
--Chaminade 17, Van Nuys 0: Veronica Barth homered, doubled and pitched a one-hitter for host Chaminade of West Hills (2-1). --San Fernando 6, Verdugo Hills 1: Selena Salazar pitched a two-hitter with 11 strikeouts for 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. (3-2). |
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