SOFTBALL ROUNDUP: LIRA HELPS KEEP SYLMAR PERFECT.Byline: Daily News On a team with a freshman starting pitcher Noun 1. starting pitcher - (baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; and four freshmen infielders, Sylmar senior catcher Brenda Lira had no choice but to be a leader. Lira played the role perfectly in Tuesday afternoon's City Section quarterfinal quar·ter·fi·nal adj. Of or relating to one of four competitions in a tournament, whose winners go on to play in semifinal competitions. n. 1. quarterfinals A quarterfinal round. 2. A quarterfinal match. , driving in a run and scoring another as the host Spartans beat Banning of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. 3-1 in a Championship bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. game. Sylmar (20-0) will continue its quest for Verb 1. quest for - go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby" quest after, go after, pursue look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the a perfect season Friday against Carson at South Gate Park. ``It would mean a lot to me,'' Lira said about going undefeated. ``I will be leaving the field with an honor.'' Lira broke open a scoreless game with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the third. She lined a full-count single through the left side of the infield to score Stephanie Boshae. Angelina Gonzalez followed with a single to make it 2-0. Lira, who also scored an insurance run in the seventh, had two of Sylmar's three hits. ``She makes my pitches look better than they are,'' said Boshae, who won her 17th game. ``And she always comes through in a clutch. Those are the hits she makes every time.'' Lira's finest play, however, might have come in the fifth. Banning became just the second team all season to try to steal against her, and Lira threw out the runner at second. ``She's been waiting She's Been Waiting is Kristy Hanson's 2003 second release. Track listing All tracks are composed by Kristy Hanson
Banning (23-4-2) outhit Sylmar 7-3, it also but committed four errors. Boshae has given up just two walks in 103 innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. this season. - Ross Siler OTHER CITY SECTION GAMES Championship Bracket --San Pedro 2, Granada Hills 1: Granada Hills was eliminated by the four-time defending City champion in the quarterfinal at San Pedro High. Top-seeded San Pedro (27-3) broke a 1-1 tie in the third 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. when Ashley Esparza scored from third on Nicole Serrato's sacrifice fly to center field. Granada Hills (25-9), the No. 8 seed, stranded baserunners at third in the fourth and sixth innings against Esparza (18-1), who threw a two-hitter and has not allowed an earned run 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 this season. In the fourth, Lindsey Alexander was left at third after leading off with a single. In the sixth, Jessica Patton was stranded after opening with a walk. Granada Hills sent only three hitters to the plate in the first, third, fifth and seventh innings. Granada Hills, which lost to San Pedro in last year's semifinals, took a 1-0 lead in the second when Michelle Reeves singled Jessica Danowski from third on a two-out infield grounder. Villanova-bound Kat Wilson (15-8) struck out four and allowed five hits. - Kirby Lee CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Jessica Patton of Granada Hills slides safely underneath a tag attempt from San Pedro's Jackie Conlin during Tuesday's game. Kirby Lee/Special to the Daily News |
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