SOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL PLAYOFFS: LIGHT-HITTING CHAMINADE FALLS IN FIRST ROUND.Byline: Daily News For most of the season, Kyle Thompson's pitching was enough to get past a lack of clutch hitting by Chaminade of West Hills' baseball team. But when Thompson had an off day Thursday, there was no overcoming the Eagles' slumping bats. The Mission League co-champion was eliminated from the postseason with a 4-2 upset by visiting Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. in the first round of the Southern Section Div. II playoffs. The Eagles (21-8), who spent the season ranked in the division's top 10, were held to four hits and stranded six base runners, two of them at third. Thompson (8-2), a junior right-hander, allowed four runs on six hits, five walks and a hit batter in five innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. . He struck out four. ``His control has been so good all year,'' Chaminade coach Mark Gubicza The Eagles fell behind early when Santa Barbara's Thomas Larsen Thomas "Larsenator" Larsen is a former Muay Thai fighter from Denmark who has fought internationally in Muaythai, karate, shootfighting, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Today he runs the combat sports company called Larsenator Sports Promotion which is a company exclusively devoted to was hit by a pitch to lead off the second inning and scored on Matt Quijano's single. The Dons (19-6) added three more runs as they batted around in the fifth. Chaminade cut the deficit in half on a two-run home run by Casey Haerther - his ninth homer of the season - in the bottom of the fifth. The Eagles managed just one baserunner the rest of the game. Haerther was on deck when it ended. ``We had chances, but we just haven't been able to string the hits together lately,'' Gubicza said. ``We were just hoping to get Haerther up there again.'' Santa Barbara junior right-hander Bryce Uhrig (8-1) went six innings with four strikeouts, two walks and four hits allowed. Vinnie Agapito retired the Eagles in order in the seventh for the save. Cord Phelps went 2 for 3 with a walk for the Dons. Trevor Arroyo, Jose Jauregui and pinch hitter pinch-hit intr.v. pinch-hit, pinch-hit·ting, pinch-hits 1. Baseball To bat in place of a player scheduled to bat, especially when a hit is badly needed. 2. Kevin Pillar singled for Chaminade. - Heather Gripp DIV. II --Camarillo 4, Mira Costa 0: Senior right-hander Jeff Bricker pitched his second shutout of the season, striking out six and allowing six hits as Camarillo defeated host Mira Costa of Manhattan Beach Manhattan Beach, city (1990 pop. 32,063), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1912. It is a residential and beach community with an oil refinery and nearby factories that produce transportation and electrical equipment, computers, and pottery. (20-8), the Bay League champion, in a first-round game. Mike Sliger's two-run single highlighted the three-run third inning for Camarillo (18-9), the third-place team in the Pacific View League. Teammate Jared DeCamp added an 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. DIV. VI --Vasquez 11, Viewpoint 1: China McCarney worked five innings, giving up five hits, striking out eight, walking none and hitting three batters, to lead Vasquez of Acton to a first-round victory over visiting Viewpoint of Calabasas (16-9). His counterpart, Willy Blackman (4-4), gave up eight hits in five innings, with four walks and two strikeouts. Blackman had two hits, one a double. McCarney doubled and singled and Curtis Leavitt had a two-run homer and a single. --Campbell Hall 12, San Jacinto San Jacinto, river, c.130 mi (210 km) long, rising in SE Texas as the West Fork and flowing S to Galveston Bay. Its chief tributary is Buffalo Bayou, and both the bayou and the lower river are used for the Houston ship channel. 2: Ryan Jody went 3 for 5 with five RBI and two runs as 2004 quarterfinalist Campbell Hall Campbell Hall can refer to:
Sam Weinberger scattered four hits over six innings and struck out nine to improve to 9-0. CAPTION(S): box Box: PRIME-TIME PLAYERS |
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