LITTLE LEAGUE PLAYOFFS : MOORPARK NEARS REGIONAL FINAL.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Daily News Staff Writer The Moorpark Little League All-Stars are a step closer to reaching the championship round of the Western Regionals in San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. after blitzing Rock Springs of Wyoming 7-0 on Wednesday night. Moorpark will play either Reno, Nevada or Issequah, Wash., tonight at 8, with the winner earning a trip to the final against Pearl City Pearl City A village of Hawaii on Pearl Harbor in southern Oahu. It was severely damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941). Population: 32,000. of Hawaii on Friday. The tournament winner will represent the West Region in next week's Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. As has been the case throughout this tournament, Moorpark used a big inning to pull away for the win. This time the rally came in the fifth inning, when it scored six runs and sent 11 batters to the plate to take the commanding 7-0 lead. Moorpark jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning. The big guns were Blake Sharpe (two hits, one 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 ), Michael Lopez (two hits, one RBI) and Erik Johnson
Erik Johnson (born March 21, 1988 in Bloomington, Minnesota) is an American ice hockey player. , who had a two-run double. Johnson, who was intentionally walked in each of his at-bats in the loss to Pearl City on Tuesday night, got just one significant opportunity to swing the bat on Wednesday and made the most of it with his double. In his other three at-bats, he drew a walk, got hit by a pitch and was put on via another intentional walk. Johnson took over in the sixth inning and closed the game out. Moorpark still has a tough task ahead. After suffering a heartbreaking loss to Pearl City and dropping into the loser's bracket, Moorpark will have to win today and then beat Pearl City twice on Friday in order to win the double-elimination tournament A double-elimination tournament is a competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two games or matches. . Pearl City, meanwhile, will head into Friday's final with two full days of rest. Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. 3, Thousand Oaks 0: The Thousand Oaks Senior Little League All-Stars' World Championship hopes hit a major snag in a shutout loss to Maracaibo, Venezuela, the Latin America representative, at the Senior League World Series in Kissimmee, Fla. Thousand Oaks, which won its first two games of the series by a combined score of 14-0 and has encountered little resistance throughout tournament play, was stopped cold by Latin America pitcher Nohomar Corona. Latin America advances to the final on Saturday. Thousand Oaks, meanwhile, needs to win today against Maumee, Ohio (U.S. Central) - the game starts at 2 p.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT - and again on Friday to reach the final. |
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