SO. SECTION BASEBALL: UPSET BID BY HART FALLS SHORT TOP SEED RIVERSIDE POLY WINS IN QUARTERFINALS RIV. POLY 4, HART 3.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Upset-minded Hart High of Newhall had its chances to unseat top-seeded Riverside Poly in the Southern Section Div. I baseball quarterfinals Friday. But the key hit at the right time never materialized in a 4-3 loss in eight innings before a breathless but disappointed overflow crowd at Hart. Hart (19-9-1) loaded the bases with two out in the bottom of the seventh inning with its top slugger, Shane Carlson, at the plate. Carlson, a UC Santa Barbara-bound senior whose 48 hits are two shy of Hart's single-season record, popped a 3-1 fastball to center for the third out. Riverside Poly the scored the go-ahead run against reliever Donny Williams (4-3) in the top of the eighth on two errors and Mike O'Neil's sacrifice fly. Hart put a runner in scoring position In the sport of baseball, a baserunner is said to be in scoring position when he is on second or third base. The distinction between being on first base and second or third base is that a runner on first can usually only score if the batter hits an extra base hit, while a runner on with one out in the bottom of the eighth, but Hector Rabago (6-1) struck out Ryan Pettersen and Patrick Sarkissian to end the game. Hart's Tyler Fick hit a two-run home run in the first inning and pitched seven strong innings, allowing three earned runs earned run n. Baseball A run scored without the aid of an error, used in computing earned run averages. Noun 1. earned run - a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team on six hits and five walks with five strikeouts. ``Riverside Poly was the No. 1 seed in the CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF). and the best-hitting team we've seen but we also had the worst (umpire) I've ever seen,'' said Fick, who felt he wasn't given enough close pitches. ''But everyone played their heart out, and I don't think any of us would have done anything differently.'' Rabago turned in a stellar performance, pitching seven relief innings - the first six without giving up a hit - while allowing one single and striking out 10. ``Hart was a tough team, but I never really felt pressured,'' Rabago said. ``I like to be challenged like that. It makes me a better pitcher.'' Rabago, a junior who has committed to USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , used a combination of sharp breaking pitches and a lively fastball to keep Hart's hitters off-balance. ``He's got good stuff and he throws a lot of quick pitches,'' Fick said. ``He doesn't give you much time to get ready, and he doesn't give you much to hit.'' Hart, which scored first on Shane Carlson's 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 double in the second inning, has advanced to the quarterfinals or further six times in the past 12 seasons and was hoping to qualify for the semifinals for the second consecutive year. Gerry Gittelson, (661) 257-5218 gerry.gittelson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Hart's Kevin Baker Kevin Baker (b. 1958), is an American novelist and journalist. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts. As a youth Baker worked on the Gloucester Daily Times, covering school-boy sports, as well as local town meetings and fields a ground ball against Riverside Poly in a Div A DIV Associate of Divinity . I quarterfinal game Friday. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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