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Beacons
Shut Out Lights On Stars
September
2, 2010 (Federal League Wire Service)
The Lighthouse
Point Beacons will return to the Expansion Series for the fifth
straight season after registering a 12-0 win over the Hollywood
Stars in Game 3 of the Junior Circuit's best of three semi-final
series. The Illuminators, in what has become a seasonal ritual,
will await the winner of the other semi-final series between the
defending champion Davie Goliaths and the Margate Sentries to
determine their Expansion Series opponents.
Brant
Spring, who took a hard luck loss in Game 1 of the series, was
masterful in blanking the Stars in Game 3. Spring tossed a
complete game three hitter, walking three, hitting one, and
striking out seven. Only one of three singles permitted by
Spring reached the outfield.
Juan Gonzalez, who shutout the Beacons in Game 1, started for
the Stars, but did not yield similar results. Gonzalez was
tagged for 10 runs on 10 hits in three and a third innings. The
side slinging righty walked four and struck out two.
Jimmy
Efre and Keith Nicoll led a 14 hit assault for the Guiding
Lights with three hits each. Nicoll, prospering since his move
to the seventh spot in the Beacon order, was three for three
with two RBI.
Rich
Martell had a pair of hits, including a two run home run in the
fourth inning. Chris Basso and Jose Morales had two hits each as
well and drove in two runs a piece.
After
being shutout in the first game of the series, the Beacons
exploded for 32 runs in the final two games.
The game was completed despite a bank of the Coral Glades
outfield lights failing to work properly. The malfunction did
not have any affect on the contest.
In The Original Division Finals: The South Florida Sun Devils
avoided being swept out of the Original Division's Championship
Final Series as they walloped the Deerfield Tigers, 12-1 in Game
3 of the best of five series. The Tigers still hold a two games
to one advantage.
Three
Solar Satan pitchers combined on a seven hitter. Jason Lipoff
started and fared much better than his brief outing in Game 1.
Lipoff delivered six strong, shutout innings, walking one,
hitting one, and scattering five singles. The likable lefty
struck out one.
Chris Snevel and Ryan Smith provided relief, with the Tigers
lone run, a home run in the top of the eighth, permitted by
Smith.
The
Sun Devils scored in every inning, except the first. Jeff
Wenger's home run with one out in the second opened the scoring,
and Bryan Greer's three run homer in the bottom of the eighth,
completed the tallying. In between, Ryan Stuart had three hits
and two RBI, Alvaro Gomez had a two run single, and Wenger
finished with three hits, two RBI, and three runs scored.
John
Adams started for the Tigers and took the loss after allowing
four earned runs on seven hits in four innings.
The
Tigers had threatened early in the game when, in the top of the
second, Pete Taraskevich and Danny Bautista hit consecutive
singles, but Joe Patrolia lined into an inning ending double
play. In the home half of the same frame, Wenger homered, and
the rout was on.
The teams will break for the holiday and the series will resume
with Game 4, scheduled for
Tuesday.
Last Week's Action-Tigers Take 2 Games To None Lead: The Original Division's
Championship Final Series began on Tuesday night and neither the
Deerfield Tigers nor the South Florida Sun Devils emerged from
the game with a series lead as their contest was suspended, due
to a city curfew, after 11 innings with the score tied at 7-7.
The game was completed prior to the scheduled start of Game
2 on Saturday. The Tigers copped the
game, 3-2 in the 12th inning before going on to win the
regularly scheduled game, 3-0. The upstart Tigers now stand one
win from claiming their first ever Senior Circuit championship.
In
the continuation of Game 1, the Tigers mounted a two out rally
in the top of the 12th before scoring the go ahead run on an
error. Teddy Bird pitched a scoreless bottom of the 12th to earn
a save. Andres Gomez, who had gotten two outs in the top of the
11th, was awarded the win.
In Game 2, Bird combined with Drew Phillips on a four hit
shutout for the Tigers. Bird started and went four innings,
while Phillips pitched the final five frames.
A.J.
Nieto's three run home run off of Sun Devil starter Nick
Manganaro provided all of the game's scoring.
In
Game 1, the Tigers raced to an early 5-0 lead. A.J. Hierro, who had
three home runs in the Tigers' clinching game against the
Parkland Mets, hit his fourth consecutive homer in the top of
the first. Hierro hammered a first pitch fastball with two out
and none on to give the Tigers a quick 1-0 advantage.
In
the second, the Tigers knocked Lipoff out of the game, scoring
four more runs in the process. Tim Hopkins had an RBI single,
and A.J. Nieto had an RBI double. Lipoff also allowed two
runners to score via wild pitch.
In
the inning, Sun Devil third baseman Alvaro Gomez was able to
record an out by making use of the hidden ball trick. Tigers'
manager John Demming apparently did not appreciate the play and
berated Gomez, a former Tiger, from the third base coaching box.
Both players were eventually warned and the verbiage subsided.
Gomez, however, got in a non verbal blow as he homered in the
Devils three run third inning. Gomez's blast came after a two
run double by Todd Braid.
Dave Perry's sacrifice fly in the fifth and his RBI single in
the seventh allowed the Devils to tie the score.
An
unearned run in the top of the eighth gave the Tigers a 6-5
lead, but a sacrifice fly by Anthony De Filippis scored Jeff
Wenger with a run that tied the score at 6-6 after eight
innings.
The Tigers took a 7-6 lead in the top of the on a home run by
Andres Gomez, but the Sun Devils tied the score in the home half
of the frame as his brother Alvaro singled and eventually scored
on a wild pitch.
Neither
team could break through in the 11th before the curfew time
arrived.
The
Tigers will try to complete the sweep in Game 3, scheduled for
Tuesday.
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