ROYAL WIN OVER CAMARILLO SIGN OF THE TIMES : ROYAL 14, CAMARILLO 4.Byline: Chris Branam Daily News Staff Writer A month ago, the plan to avenge a·venge tr.v. a·venged, a·veng·ing, a·veng·es 1. To inflict a punishment or penalty in return for; revenge: avenge a murder. 2. last year's stumbling finish 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. was blowing up in faces of the the Royal High baseball players. In their first eight innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. in league play, the Highlanders had been outscored by 12 runs. Everything seemed out of control. Now, Royal is controlling the league. The first-place Highlanders scored nine runs in the sixth inning to beat Camarillo 14-4 on Wednesday to take a two-game lead with six games left. The Highlanders were still batting when the game was ended by the home-plate umpire, who invoked the 10-run mercy rule A mercy rule, also well known by the slightly less polite term slaughter rule (or, less commonly, knockout rule and skunk rule), brings a sports event to an early end when one team has a very large and presumably insurmountable lead over the other team. . Then the Royal players ran out to the left-field fence and each gave Camarillo's 1997 league-championship banner a punch. The Scorpions won the league title last season on the last day when Royal was beaten by 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. . ``It just feels like they stole it from us last year,'' said Royal starter Mike Byer, who overcame a 34-pitch first inning to improve to 6-2. Royal left fielder Tony Ortega, whose triple drove in the game's final run, said the Highlanders were motivated to get a piece of the sign before they went out and got 18 hits, including seven for extra bases. ``Before the game they ran out and touched (the sign),'' said Ortega, who also hit his fifth homer of the year in the first. ``Right now, our confidence is at a high.'' Royal coach Dan Maye said, ``We told our guys, `Look at that sign. That's what we want to do.' '' Royal, ranked No. 6 by the Daily News, improved to 7-1 in league, 14-4 overall. The Highlanders have won seven in a row since being shut out by Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. in the opener. Camarillo (16-5, 6-3) has had a rough week. The Scorpions lost 12-1 on Monday to Westlake and face the suddenly hot Warriors again on Friday. ``We got beat by a better team today,'' Scorpions coach Scott Cline cline, in biology, any gradual change in a particular characteristic of a population of organisms from one end of the geographical range of the population to the other. said. ``(The Highlanders) are thinking they've got (the title) this year, but there are still six games left.'' The Highlanders were holding on to a 5-4 lead heading into the sixth. They sent 12 batters to the plate against three Camarillo pitchers, and 10 reached safely. Bobby Egan, who went 3 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 , had a double and a sacrifice fly in the rally. Byer had a one-out, two-run single in the sixth and was one of seven Highlanders who got at least one RBI. ``All of a sudden, we've put some games together and stayed on top,'' said Maye, who has won two league titles with the Highlanders. |
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