YOUTH BASEBALL: ALL-STARS LOSE LEAD IN FINAL : LANCASTER TEAM RUNS OUT OF MAGIC.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Staff Writer The Lancaster Little League All-Stars, so accustomed to dramatic come-from-behind baseball victories, learned what it's like on the other side. The 11- and 12-year-olds lost to Rosamond 8-5 at Park View in the District 51 championship after relinquishing re·lin·quish tr.v. re·lin·quished, re·lin·quish·ing, re·lin·quish·es 1. To retire from; give up or abandon. 2. To put aside or desist from (something practiced, professed, or intended). 3. an early four-run lead. Matt Blane's three-run home run in the fourth 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. put Rosamond (5-1) ahead to stay. El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. (6-2), which had climbed from the losers' bracket with five straight victories - four of them comebacks - managed just two singles over the final two innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. and never seriously threatened. ``I'm kind of disappointed,'' said shortstop Nick Gaudi, whose home run to lead off the third inning cleared the left-field wall by about 30 feet. ``We weren't together today and we just fell apart.'' Winner Othon Espinosa held El Dorado to just one run over the last five innings. He allowed 12 hits but twice worked his way out of bases-loaded situations. ``I was mad at myself for giving them an early lead,'' Espinosa said. ``But I had confidence I could hold them down. This was one of the best games I ever pitched.'' El Dorado starter Ryan Hamilton, who entered with a 2-0 tournament record and a string of 10 scoreless innings, was felled by a six-run fourth inning, during which the locals committed a variety of mistakes, all with two out: Catcher Brandon Miller For the lacrosse player, see . Brandon Miller (born August 28, 1981, in Rancho Santa Fe, California), is an American race car driver. He is a member of the Richard Childress Racing driver development program, although he has not raced in the past year. dropped the ball on a tag out In baseball, a tag out, sometimes just called a tag, is a play in which a baserunner is out because he is touched by the fielder's hand holding a live ball while the runner is in jeopardy. at home plate. Hamilton forgot to cover the bag on a slow grounder to first baseman Jeff Halverson. Hamilton threw two wild pitches. David Walker David Walker may refer to:
``We just fell apart in the fourth inning,'' Hamilton said. ``We made too many mistakes and we let too many guys on base.'' El Dorado center fielder Eric Wickliffe, who was 2 for 3 - and 11 for 13 over the last four games - said his team had ``a good run,'' but he wasn't pleased with the team's overall performance in the final. ``Everyone was trying to take the ball over the fence, and we just let too many runners on base,'' Wickliffe said. ``Ryan pitched pretty good, but our defense let him down. I don't think Rosamond was that good.'' Walker had a three-run homer in the first. Doug Edelman's single drove in Wickliffe for the first run. Rosamond travels to El Monte El Monte (ĕl mŏn`tē), city (1990 pop. 106,209), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1912. A residential, industrial, and commercial city in the San Gabriel Valley, El Monte manufactures furniture, electronic equipment, semiconductors, for the Sectional tournament today. El Dorado, which won the Area 3 championship, ends its season with its best performance since 1979. ``It's been a long two or three weeks, and my kids just didn't have any fire left,'' El Dorado coach Bob Miller said. ``They came in down, and they just weren't themselves today. Having the bases loaded twice and not scoring didn't help. But it was a great tournament for us.'' El Dorado had beaten Rosamond 7-5 on Wednesday to force a second game in the double-elimination tournament A double-elimination tournament is a competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two games or matches. . ``We got the key hits today and we didn't get them (on Wednesday),'' Rosamond coach Greg Manuel said. ``When we fell behind 4-0, I was trying to figure out if I should change pitchers, but Espinosa pitched well under pressure. ``My kids are very happy. This is the farthest we've gone in at least 12 years.'' |
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