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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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