PREP BASEBALL: PIONEER SPIRIT: SIMI VALLEY COMES BACK SIMI VALLEY 8, WESTLAKE 7.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - Shane Ampe has a difficult time believing his team will lose. So do John Arisohn, Mike Moscatello and the rest of the Simi Valley baseball team. A four-run deficit in the seventh 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. couldn't convince them, and it's likely not much will, the way the Pioneers keep staging comebacks. Ampe drove in the winning run in the eighth inning Friday to cap Simi SIMI Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative SIMI Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet SIMI Students Islamic Movement in India SIMI Society of Irish Motor Industry SIMI Smallholder Irrigation Markets Initiative Valley's latest comeback, an 8-7 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. victory over Westlake. The Pioneers have won nine in a row, overcoming deficits of at least five runs in the past two league games. ``No matter what the score is, we're never thinking we're going to lose,'' Ampe said. ``That's just our team.'' Arisohn's second hit of the game produced three runs and he scored the tying run later in the seventh inning. After Westlake regained the lead in the eighth, Moscatello finished a 4-for-4 day by singling in the tying run in the bottom half of the inning before Ampe ended the game with a bases-loaded drive to left field. The victory moves the Pioneers (13-8, 4-3) within a game of first-place Moorpark, and two-time defending league champion Westlake (13-7, 5-3) dropped out of first. Last week, Simi Valley overcame an eight-run deficit against Newbury Park. ``We never give up,'' Moscatello said. ``We're confident. We just go out there and keep coming back.'' Westlake had led since the second inning when Cody Cipriano's 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. capped a five-run inning. Cipriano, who went 3 for 3, added a solo home run in the fifth inning. Simi Valley rallied with the aid of Westlake mistakes. Mike Astorino was hit by a pitch to load the bases and chase Westlake starter Tyler Carr CARR Carrier CARR Customer Acceptance Readiness Review CARR Carrollton Railroad CARR Corrective Action Request and Report CARR City Area Rural Rides (Texas) CARR Configuration Audit Readiness Review CARR Customer Acceptance Requirements Review with one out in the seventh. Arisohn followed with a drive to center that got past the center fielder, allowing Arisohn to advance to third. He scored the tying on a passed ball on the next pitch by Justin Blaine. ``Now that the bats are going, the pitchers are keeping us in games and it's a different guy coming through each game,'' Simi Valley coach Joe Gordon For other persons named Joe Gordon, see Joe Gordon (disambiguation). Joseph Lowell Gordon (February 18 1915 - April 14 1978), nicknamed "Flash", was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Cleveland said of his team's turnaround from a slow start that included five consecutive losses at one point. |
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