SIKARAS CLOSES `HUGE WIN' FOR JETHAWKS JETHAWKS 4, INL. EMPIRE 2.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer 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 eight and a half innings of bad baseball, an Olympic hopeful saved the day for the JetHawks. Lancaster closer Pete Sikaras, who likely will represent the host Greek national team in the 2004 Athens Olympics Athens Olympics
Olympic Games • , allowed the potential tying runs to reach base Sunday, but struck out the side for his team-leading 10th save to preserve a 4-2 victory over Inland Empire at Arrowhead Credit Union Park Arrowhead Credit Union Park is a stadium in San Bernardino, California. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Inland Empire 66ers of San Bernardino minor league baseball team. It was built in 1996. It holds 5,000 people. . ``This was a huge win for us because we've lost a lot of guys (to promotions), and everybody stepped up,'' said Sikaras, who will play with the Greek team July 5-21 in the European championship tournament in the Netherlands. He's considered a Greek citizen because his parents immigrated to the United States from Greece when both were 16. The JetHawks were 1 for 13 with runners in scoring position, but they broke open a 2-2 deadlock in the top of the eighth on a walk and a hit batter, both of which occurred with the bases loaded. The Sixers squandered squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. bases-loaded no-out opportunities in the first and the fourth, a first-and-third no-out situation in the seventh, and were 3 for 15 with runners in scoring position. --Notes: Left-hander Reuben Kerbs was assigned to Lancaster and will join the team Tuesday. He comes to the JetHawks from short-season Yakima (Wash.). After a day off today, right-hander Justin Wechsler (8-4, 4.06 ERA) will pitch for the JetHawks when they host San Jose at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday. Right-hander Brion Treadway will pitch for the Giants. Gideon Rubin (818)713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT --Saturday's top performers: Joe Gault n. 1. (Geol.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period. (Canyon High) earned his first professional victory, allowing one run on one hit in 2 1/3 innings for the Minnesota Twins' Gulf Coast League The Gulf Coast League is a minor league baseball league which operates in Florida. It is a Rookie League, with a season running from mid-June to late August. The season is 60 games long and teams in the league are divided into three divisions, East, North and rookie team against the Red Sox. ... Kent Wulf (Quartz Hill) had a run-scoring single and also scored a run for the Pirates' Gulf Coast League rookie team. ... Chris Dickerson (Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks) homered and drove in six runs with six 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 and three runs scored for rookie Billings (Mont.). ... Kenny Durost (Highland of Palmdale/The Master's College) notched his first pro victory with a scoreless, hitless inning in a 7-5 victory for rookie Helena (Mont.) over Idaho Falls (Idaho). ... Duke Sardinha (Pepperdine) had three hits for rookie Tri-City (Wash.). ... Mike Schultz (Cleveland of Reseda/Loyola Marymount) allowed three earned runs on three hits and seven strikeouts in a six-inning no-decision for Single-A Yakima (Wash.). Matt Chico (USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. ) got the victory in relief. - Chris Cocoles CAPTION(S): box Box: MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT (see text) |
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