SOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL: CHARGERS HAVE THE WRIGHT STUFF.Byline: MATTHEW KREDELL Staff Writer For the second season in a row, Agoura was battling a Foothill League team in extra innings Noun 1. extra innings - overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning; e.g. baseball extra time, overtime - playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie of a playoff game Noun 1. playoff game - one game in the series of games constituting a playoff game - a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours" playoff - any final competition to determine a championship with its season on the line. As each 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. went by, it looked more and more like the Chargers were destined des·tine tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines 1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic. 2. to suffer the same fate. But pitcher Jason Stoffel and No. 9 hitter J.T. Wright wouldn't allow it. Wright followed up eight innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. of scoreless relief from Stoffel with a two-out double down the right-field line to score Cole McCune from second base, giving host Agoura a 4-3 victory over Valencia in a 12-inning Southern Section Div. I second-round game. ``He had blown the past four pitches by me,'' said Wright, who was 0-4 with two strikeouts and a walk heading into the at-bat. ``I knew he was going to throw me another fastball away. The only way I was going to be able to hit it was to right field, so I went with it.'' Agoura (19-8) persevered without its best hitter, Robert Stock, for much of the game. Stock, who started the game at pitcher, was hit in the hand by a line drive in the third and left at the end of the inning. Stoffel, who entered the game in the fifth inning, got out of a bases-loaded jam with two outs in the top of the 12th to give Wright the chance to win it. The pitchers' duel duel, prearranged armed fight with deadly weapons, usually swords or pistols, between two persons concerned with a point of honor. The duel may have originated in the wager of battle, an early mode of trial in which an accused person fought with his accuser under started in the fifth inning, after Agoura had scored three runs in the first two innings and Valencia tied it in the fourth. Casey Mulligan mul·li·gan n. A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee. [Probably from the name Mulligan.] Noun 1. , who entered the game in the seventh as Valencia's fourth pitcher, matched Stoffel inning for inning up to the end. The Chargers, who handed the Vikings (25-4) two of their four losses on the season, snapped Valencia's 15-game win streak. ``We got runners on, we just couldn't put it in play when we needed it,'' Valencia coach Jared Snyder said. ``Hopefully the players will throw this game out the window and remember how it was a great season.'' Last year, Agoura was ousted from the playoffs in thefirst round by Hart of Newhall in nine innings. matthew.kredell@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): box Box: SOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL |
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