T.O. POUNDS GRANADA HILLS FOR GOLD TITLE CHAMPIONSHIP WIN A BREEZE OVER PROM-DEPLETED OPPONENT T.O. 14, GRAN. HILLS 4.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer While most of the seniors on the Granada Hills High baseball team were hitting the dance floor Saturday evening, Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. was busy hitting its way to a Daily News Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. Gold Division championship against what was left of the Highlanders. Thousand Oaks defeated Granada Hills 14-4 in a mercy-rule shortened, five-inning game at USC's Dedeaux Field Dedeaux Field is a college baseball stadium in Los Angeles, California, and the home field of the University of Southern California Trojans baseball team. The stadium holds 2,500 people and was built in 1974, the year USC won its record fifth consecutive College World Series title. to claim the tournament title for the second time in the event's 16 years. Granada Hills (14-11) had only 12 players available because most of its seniors, including the team's top pitchers, attended the school's prom. Thousand Oaks (11-10) used 13 hits and five Granada Hills errors to brighten what has been a bleak second half of the season. ``It feels good,'' said outfielder Matt Lorenz, whose Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. are in sixth place in the Marmonte league The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. . ``For all us seniors, it was the last thing we could win, and we did it. So it's nice.'' Granada Hills was one of the area's hottest teams when the championship game was originally scheduled to be played more than a month ago, but, at far from full strength Saturday, the Highlanders quickly saw their title hopes slip away. Thousand Oaks broke the game open with nine runs in the third inning. The Lancers sent 14 batters to the plate, and Lorenz, Zach Ginther and Eric Guillen each had two hits in the inning. Lorenz finished 3 for 3, including a double and a triple. Ginther was 3 for 4, and Chris Hannick went 2 for 3 with two 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 . ``It's awesome,'' Lorenz said of his team's offense. ``It finally came around. This is what we expected to do all season. Unfortunately, it's come a little late.'' Thousand Oaks added three runs in the fifth inning. Jeff Bandy's single to right brought home Guillen to cap the scoring and end the game with no outs in the inning. Lancers freshman Chad Smith For other persons named Chad Smith, see Chad Smith (disambiguation). Chad Smith (born 25 October 1961, Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.) the drummer of the American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. (2-2) was the beneficiary of the offensive outburst, earning the win in 1 1/3 innings of relief. In his first start of the season, Granada Hills junior Sean Leahy Sean Leahy (born 1958) is a cartoonist working for the Courier Mail in Brisbane, Australia. He draws political cartoons for the paper, and also his own comic strip, Beyond the Black Stump, which is distributed in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. (0-1) went two-plus innings, allowing eight runs on six hits, two walks and a hit batter. The Highlanders' only lead of the night was 2-0 in the first inning on a two-run double by Jimmy Loyd. Thousand Oaks evened the score in the bottom of the inning Noun 1. bottom of the inning - the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat bottom inning, frame - (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat with the aid of two Granada Hills errors. Thomas McKenna led the Highlanders with two hits and an RBI. Brandon Kitching contributed a double and scored a run in the fourth. Heather Gripp, (818) 713-3607 heather.gripp(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos, box Photo: (1) Thousand Oaks High starter Tyler Peddicord pitched 2 2/3 innings, allowing two runs with four strikeouts and two walks, but missed out on a decision. (2) Granada Hill's Jon Villarreal is tagged out in the third inning of Thousand Oaks' title win at USC's Dedeaux Field on Saturday. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News Box: GOLD DIVISION |
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