DAY IN SPORTS: VALENCIA GETS OUT OF FUNK.Byline: Daily News After losing its first three baseball games, nationally-ranked Valencia High appears to be all the way back. The team hammered one of the area's top returning pitchers and got another fine pitching performance from right-hander Jared Clark during a 7-3 Foothill League victory at Saugus in front of a standing-room only crowd Saturday afternoon. Saugus left-hander Thomas Milone entered with a 1.27 ERA but lasted just 3 1/3-plus innings, as Valencia (4-3, 2-0) broke open a close game with five runs in the fourth inning. Such a large cushion was more than enough for Clark. The 6-foot-4 senior struck out 11 - including five of the last nine he faced - in a complete- game seven-hitter. A group of major-league scouts in attendance clocked Clark's fastball at 89 mph. ``We've put those first three games behind In sports, the phrase games behind, often abbreviated as GB in tables, is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division. us and moved on from there,'' second baseman second baseman n. Baseball The infielder who is positioned near and to the first-base side of second base. Noun 1. second baseman - (baseball) the person who plays second base second sacker Patrick O'Sullivan Patrick O'Sullivan can refer to
Matt Aidem set the tone with a home run on the first pitch of the game. He finished 2 for 4 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 . ``Every year we seem to go through a three-game stretch where we play like crud (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) The basic processes that are applied to data. . Maybe it was good to get it out of the way so early,'' Aidem said. ``From that point, we knew all we can do is get better. Plus, we know teams are going to come after us, so we've got to work.'' No. 8 hitter Casey Mulligan mul·li·gan n. A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee. [Probably from the name Mulligan.] Noun 1. added two hits including a run-scoring double, as the bottom three hitters in the lineup combined for four RBI and three runs. ``It's nice having so many solid hitters 1-through-9. It helps because we know we can pass the rope and everyone is going to get the job done,'' O'Sullivan said. Valencia, coming off a 15-3 victory over Burbank in Friday's league opener, has scored 28 runs over the past three games. Saugus right-hander Scott Wischnack relieved Milone and didn't allow a hit in 3 2/3 innings. But with Clark (2-0) on the mound, Saugus (5-2, 1-10) knew it was going to be difficult to rally from a six-run deficit. Sure enough, the team managed just one hit over the final 3 2/3 innings. ``It was tough. Clark is probably one of the best pitchers in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, ,'' Saugus coach Casey Burrill said. ``That's why there's so much hype about him.'' Milone (2-0) drove in a run with a double on a hit-and-run play in the first, and he also scored on Gary Finley's fourth-inning single. - Gerry Gittelson IN OTHER PREP BASEBALL Redondo Tournament --Camarillo 19, Downey 9: Donald Brown Donald E. Brown is an American professor of anthropology (emeritus). He worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his theoretical work regarding the existence, characteristics and relevance of universals of human nature. and Brett Scyphers each had four hits as host Camarillo scored 13 runs in the first three innings and finished with 18 hits by the game's end. Brown finished with two doubles, two stolen bases, three RBI, five runs and Scyphers added two runs and two RBI for the Scorpions (3-5). Teammate Corey Jones was 3 for 5 with a triple, two runs and four RBI. Chatsworth Tournament --Chatsworth 3, Chaminade 1: Willie Cabrera led off the game with a home run and Jason Dominguez added an insurance run in the sixth with a solo shot for host Chatsworth (8-0) in a victory during the opening day of pool play. In other tournament games: Host 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:
Jeff King pitched a complete game three-hitter for Granada Hills in a 11-1 victory over visiting Reseda in a five-inning game. ... San Fernando rallied for three runs in the fourth to beat host Cleveland of Reseda 3-2. ... Westlake used a seven-run, seventh inning outburst to put away host Highland of Palmdale, 12-3. PREP SOFTBALL Arroyo Tournament --Crescenta Valley 9, La Serna 0: Amanda Peek and Heather Grossnickel each hit home runs for Crescenta Valley of La Crescenta (7-1), which had nine hits, five for extra bases. Lauren Strangis pitched a complete game, giving up two hits - one in the first and the other in the second - with seven strikeouts. JUNIOR COLLEGE BASEBALL Western State Conference --Canyons 25, Valley 6: Chris Martinez hit two home rums and finished 4 for 6 with, two stolen bases, three runs and eight RBI for Canyons (9-10, 5-5) in a victory over visiting Valley, which has all 22 of its games this season. JUNIOR GOLF AJAA AJAA Alliance of Jamaican Alumni Associations tournament --Local watch: Highland High of Palmdale junior Erik Jarvey is tied for second at 1-under-par 71 midway through the American Junior Golf Association's 36-hole Ashworth Preseason Junior at Diablo Grande. Ten area golfers area entered in the age 12-18 competition at 6,665-yard Diablo Grande GC in Patterson, Calif., including La Canada High sophomore David Lipsky, who won an AJGA AJGA American Junior Golf Association event in September at Rancho Mirage. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Second baseman Patrick O'Sullivan helps Valencia to its Foothill League win over Saugus on Saturday. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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