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Denton Record-Chronicle
Saturday, May 18, 2013
3B
Cabrera double lifts
Tigers over Rangers
Rangers
Detroit 2, Texas 1
ARLINGTON (AP) - Mi-
guel Cabrera went 3-for-4 with a
go-ahead double in the sixth in-
ning to back Rick Porcello and
lift the Detroit Tigers over the
Texas Rangers 2-1 on Friday
night in a matchup of division
leaders.
Jim Leyland earned his
1,699th win as a major league
manager as the Tigers remained
tied with Cleveland atop the AL
Central.
Porcello (2-2) allowed one
run and five hits in 5 2-3 innings
with six strikeouts and a walk as
the Tigers rebounded from a
10-4 loss to Texas on Thursday
night in which ace Justin Ver-
lander was knocked out in the
third inning. Porcello is 2-0 with
a 3.24 ERA in four starts since
giving up nine runs in two-
thirds of an inning April 20
against the Los Angeles Angels.
Geovany Soto homered in his
second straight game, a solo shot
off Porcello leading off the fifth
that cut the Rangers’ deficit in
half.
Joaquin Benoit escaped a
first-and-third jam with one out
in the eighth when he induced
Nelson Cruz’s double-play
grounder.
Jose Valverde got three
groundouts around a one-out
walk to Soto in the ninth, getting
his fourth save in five chances
this season.
Rookie Nick Tepesch (3-4)
gave up two runs, six hits and
three walks in five innings as
Detroit stopped the Rangers’
three-game winning streak.
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Pilot Point
LM Otero/AP
Detroit’s Andy Dirks is tagged out by Rangers catcher Geova-
ny Soto during Friday night’s game in Arlington.
Andy Dirks led off the fifth
with abloop single to center and
advanced to second on a
groundout.
Cabrera, hitting .509 (27 for
53) with runners in scoring posi-
tion, lined an 0-1 pitchoff the
wall in left field near the out of
town scoreboard for his AL-
leading 42nd RBI. Cabrera
scored on Alex Avila’s sacrifice
%
sey said for Cagle to pitch two
games back to back on a muggy
night in East Texas was unbe-
lievable.
“Skylar’s been big for us all
year,” Ramsey said. “If we’re go-
ing to go down, we were going to
go down with her in the circle.
Cagle is now 23-0 on the sea-
son and her no-hitter in Game 1
is her third this season.
Pilot Point (36-2) will face ei-
ther Brock or Mount Vernon in
the regional championship next
week.
The winner of next week’s
contest will land a spot in the
state tournament at the Univer-
sity of Texas at Austin from May
29 to June L
In the first inning of Game 2,
Commerce capitalized on a
throwing error and Taite
McBee’s bloop single put Com-
merce ahead 1-0.
Then in the bottom of the
third inning, Allison Strittmat-
ter provided the day’s biggest hit
and gave Cagle all the runs she
needed to pick up the victory.
With a 1-1 pitch count, Stritt-
From Page IB
TWU
matter took a pitch from Com-
merce freshman pitcher Jordyn
Sharp and blasted it over the
center field wall for a three-run
homer.
The Lady Cats rushed out of
their third-base dugout and
mobbed Strittmatter at home
plate as the Pilot Point fans in
highlighter-orange shirts roared
in the bleachers behind home
plate and along the third-base
foul line.
“That was the game right
there,” Cagle said of Strittmat-
ter’s home run. “I can’t tell you
how proud I am of her. She’s
been working so hard and I
couldn’t have picked a better
person for that to happen to.”
Strittmatter went 2-for-3,
while Haley Evans went 2-for-3
with a double to aid Pilot Point’s
offense.
But Cagle was the star Friday
night.
After the Lady Tigers (27-7)
scored a run in the first, Cagle
struck out six straight batters be-
fore the streak was broken by an
infield pop-up.
Commerce, two years re-
moved from a winless district
season, made its deepest playoff
run in school history, Lady Tigers
head coach Jeff Davidson said.
Davidson’s belief that his team’s
best chance was to hold Pilot
Point to a few runs was validated.
However, Davidson admit-
ted Cagle was the best pitcher
his team’s faced all season.
‘We’re pretty athletic,” David-
son said. We’ve got a lot of
speed. We kind of rely off our
short game, our bunting and our
quickness. That usually propels
us. But you know, we usually hit
the ball a little bit better. But that
pitcher had a lot to say about
how that went.”
Cagle said this series meant a
little extra because the regional
semifinals is where last season’s
3A playoff run was cut short by
Paris North Lamar.
“Every play, every pitch, we
just know [the series] could be
our last,” Cagle said. “Not many
people get second chances, be-
cause we were here last year.”
In the bottom of the seventh,
Cagle whipped a pitch past
Commerce’s Rebekah Cooper
for her final strikeout and the se-
ries’ final out. Cooper wielded
her bat over her head and
pounded the dirt near home
plate, as Cagle ran toward her
dugout.
Before she made it there, she
collapsed on third base as emo-
tion and fatigue overwhelmed
her. Her teammates surrounded
her and helped her back on her
feet before the two teams clad in
different shades of orange con-
gratulated each other.
Cagle threw a combined total
of 191 pitches on Friday evening.
BEN BABY can be reached
at 940-566-6869 and via
Twitter @Ben_Baby.
Gamel
Pilot Point I, Commerce 0
Pilot Point 000 010 0 - 1 7 1
Commerce 000 000 0 — 0 0 1
WP — Skylar Cagle. LP — Chaney Moreland. 3B — PP:
Skylar Cagle, Preslee Galloway.
Game 2
Pilot Point 3, Commerce 2
Commerce 100 010 0 — 2 3 3
Pilot Point 003 000 x — 3 5 3
WP—Skylar Cagle. LP—Jordyn Sharp. 2B—PP: Haley
Evans. HR — PP: Allison Strittmatter.
stellar defense in the early por-
tion of the game, it could of easi-
ly been a different story.
“The first inning, if our first
two hits are hits instead of a div-
ing catch and shoestring catch,
maybe we’re on top first and we
get the momentum,” Gardner
said. “Their defense absolutely
made some huge plays. We have
to do a better job of finding the
holes. We did that last weekend
and that’s our goal for [today].”
Garcia, now 18-1 on the sea-
son, pitched a complete game,
needing only one strikeout to
hold the Hilltoppers to one run,
but it was her positive emotions,
as Bruister and the team refer to
them, that allowed her to work
around the three allowed walks.
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Sanger
“She’s a warrior and I like to
describe her as a rock,” Bruister
said. “You take a rock and throw
it up against a wall and nothing
happens to it. That’s what Laris-
sa is out there. She’s steady and
she doesn’t let stuff faze her.
She’s attacking and going at the
hitters. She has no fear out
there.”
Just like she did in the final
game of the regional tourna-
ment against St. Mary’s, Kelly
and the Pioneers’ offense broke
the scoreless tie in the third in-
ning with her hard-hit ball off
the third baseman to drive home
Vrazel — who scored from sec-
ond base after singling to lead off
the inning. Then, with Kelly
making it to second on the error,
Katie Hines sent an RBI double
over the left fielder’s head to put
TWU ahead 2-0.
Following an up-and-down
top of the fourth inning, TWU
(50-12) added another deuce to
the scoreboard in the bottom
half as the nine-hole hitter Haley
Colwell walloped an RBI triple
off the left field wall to give the
Pioneers the 3-0 lead. That
forced Debrow (23-11) from the
game in favor of Katelyn Klug.
The leadoff hitter Vrazel then
sent an RBI sacrifice fly to center
field to make it 4-0.
The Hilltoppers (33-22) fi-
nally put a crease in Garcia’s
splendid pitching performance
with an RBI sacrifice fly in the
sixth inning after Marissa
Thome reached on an error by
Vrazel, but she and the rest of
the Pioneers were unwavering
as Garcia’ ended the game with
one last committed defensive
play on a comebacker.
With the win, the Pioneers
need one more game to advance
to nationals and will have two
cracks at it today at 4:30 p.m.
and 7 p.m. if necessary.
PATRICK HAYSLIP can be
reached at 940-566-6873 and
via Twitter at @Patrick
Hayslip.
TWU 4, St Edward’s 0
St. Edward’s 000 001 0 - 1 3 2
TWU 002 200 x - 4 10 1
WP—Larisa Garcia (18-1). LP—Sarah Debrow (23-11). 2B
— Katie Hines. 3B — T: Haley Colwell.
with Game 3, if needed, to fol-
low. The winner will face either
No. 8 Mineola or Frisco Lone
Star in the regional finals. Mine-
ola and Van are both from Dis-
trict 15-3A.
The Lady Indians, winners of
District 9-3A, did not execute
like they did in defeating Neva-
da Community in two games in
the area round, and then Aubrey
in a single-game quarterfinal
playoff.
They had opportunities in
the first two innings to take con-
trol, but managed just one run
on four hits while leaving four
runners on base. While no Lady
Indians struck out, they simply
could not mount any rally
against Van pitcher Sierra Nich-
ols, either from her position in
the circle or in the batter’s box.
Nichols gave up five hits, al-
lowed no walks, and retired the
final 11 batters of the game. Of-
fensively, her two-run homer
over the center-field fence in the
third put Van ahead, and she fin-
ished the game 3-for-4 with
three RBIs.
“She’s a competitor whether
she’s pitching or hitting,” Van
coach Craig Ham said of his
sophomore. “She loves to win.
She made all the right pitches
when she had to. Then she
served up that shot to center.
She came up big for us.”
The Lady Vandals (28-5-1)
also had three doubles off Sang-
er starter Kelly Mardones, who
was the winning pitcher in all
three of Sanger’s earlier playoff
victories. She threw 72 pitches in
four innings, allowing eight hits
with three walks and no strike-
outs. Nichole Nordie pitched the
final three innings and allowed
three hits, walked one and
struck out three.
Sanger struck quickly in the
bottom of the first inning. Mor-
gan Turkoly led off with a double
down the third-base line, moved
to third on a sacrifice bunt by
Mikayla Stogsdill, then scored
when she beat out a throw to
home by Nichols, who had field-
ed Nordie’s grounder in front of
the circle.
The Lady Indians had a
chance to get more runs that in-
ning after Victoria Eakman
reached on an error and Erica
Bjomdal hit an infield single to
load the bases. But what turned
out to be a key play, Van turned a
double play when Nichols field-
ed a grounder by Harlee Sliger,
threw home for one out, and
catcher Jasmin Gipson relayed
to first to get Sliger.
“That was a huge double
play,” Ham said. “We keep them
to 1-0 and that was big for us.
That really kept us in the game.”
The Lady Indians had anoth-
er opportunity to score in the
second after Bailey Ferguson
and Savannah Matheus led off
with back-to-back singles. Nata-
lie Castillo advanced the runners
with a sacrifice, but Turkoly and
Stogsdill each grounded out to
leave the runners stranded.
Sanger would only get two
more baserunners the rest of the
way. Eakman hit a one-out sin-
gle in the third and didn’t ad-
vance, while Matheus drew a
one-out walk in the fourth — the
only walk Nichols allowed
and moved to second on a
ground out before the inning
ended on a fly ball.
After Matheus’ walk, Nichols
and the Lady Vandals retired the
final 11 batters of the game.
Meanwhile, Van took control
in the top half of third. Autumn
McKinney hit a two-out double
to left, and Nichols lifted her sec-
ond pitch from Mardones over
the center-field fence to give Van
a 2-1 lead. Gipson followed with
a double to left, advanced on a
passed ball and scored on Ashlin
Lovett’s infield single.
Hallee Carter hit a one-out
double to center in the fourth
and with two outs scored on
Nichols’ RBI single up the mid-
dle, Nichols’ third RBI of the
game. That gave Van a 4-1 lead.
The Lady Vandals added a
run in the sixth off reliever Nor-
die. Caitlann Peden drew a lead-
offwalk, Carter and Chelsey Tre-
jo singled to load the bases, and
Peden scored on McKinney’s
fielder's choice.
Van 5, Sanger 1
Van 003 101 0 - 5 11 1
Sanger 100 000 0 — 1 5 0
WP — Sierra Nichols. LP — Kelly Mardones. 2B — Van:
Autumn McKinney, Jasmin Gipson, Hallee Carter; Sanger:
Morgan Turkoly. HR — Van: Sierra Nichols. Records —
Sanger (30-5), Van (28-5-1).
Mean Green struggle
in NCAA regional play
From news reports
The North Texas men’s golf
team struggled in the second
round of the NCAA Pullman
(Wash.) Regional on Friday,
shooting a 12-over 300 and fall-
ing into 12th place.
UNT didn’t have a player un-
der par on the day and fell to 1
over for the tournament.
The Mean Green must make
up 14 strokes today to catch the
fifth-place teams — Pacific and
San Diego State — to advance to
the NCAA Finals.
The top five teams advance
out of the regional field to the
championship round.
Senior Rodolfo Cazaubon
had the best round of the day at
1-over 73 and is tied for 25th
place. He had three birdies on
the day and is 3-under for the
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Krum
up.”
Krum improved to 25-5 on
the season while the Panthers
dropped to 26-10.
Damron now has struck out
32 hitters and given up one hit in
13 playoff innings at Bronco
Field this month. In his three
postseason outings, the Texas
Tech signee has 40 strikeouts
and five hits and one run al-
lowed in 20 innings pitched.
Miller said Damron made it
look so easy Friday, “people
probably don’t realize how well
he threw, because this [Prince-
ton] is a good-hitting ballclub
and he shut them down.”
The pitcher mixed his fast-
ball with a big-breaking curve
and worked the ball to all cor-
ners of the strike zone from the
start.
“I jumped out early on the
zone,” said the southpaw who al-
so led Krum’s six-hit attack with
a double and single in three trips
to the plate.
North Texas golf
Men: NCAA Pullman Regional
tournament at 141.
Fellow senior Carlos Ortiz
shot a 74 and is tied for 43rd. He
is at 1-over 145 for the regional.
Marco Scarola struggled all
day after shooting a career-low
round of 66 on Thursday. Scaro-
la posted a second-round 80
and fell into a tie for 49th. Curtis
Donahoe is also in 49th after
shooting a 74. Both are at 2-over
146 for the tournament.
Jason Roets fired a second-
round 79 and is at 159 for the re-
gional.
No. 1 California leads the field
after two rounds with a score of
35 under. Southern Cal, St.
Mary’s and TCU round out the
top four.
Princeton’s Trevor Williams
ruined Damron’s bid for a no-
hitter when he shot a grounder
back up the middle with one
away in the sixth.
“I just floated one right near
the middle,” the pitcher lament-
ed.
Krum increased its lead to
4-0 on an unearned run in the
sixth. Colten Lucas was hit by re-
liever Riley Lowrance’s pitch,
then advanced to third on two
throwing errors on the same
play and scored on Jack Patton’s
RBI single.
The Panthers threatened in
the seventh, loading the bases
on a booted grounder and back-
to-back walks off a tiring Dam-
ron. But the pitcher got out of
the jam with his 14th and 15th
strikeouts of the night.
Krum 4, Princeton 0
Krum 000 301 0 - 4 6 2
Princeton 000 000 0 — 0 1 3
WP — Ty Damron. LP — David Gieke. 2B — K: Damron,
Krum. HR — K: Josh Reeves.
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Argyle
nings, was leadoff hitter Cam-
den Duzenak, who finished the
game going 3-for-4, just a single
shy of hitting for the cycle and
drove in three runs.
Melissa (26-8-1) briefly lost
its lead in the bottom of the third
inning off one of its eight errors
on the night and an RBI
groundout from Brandon Boy-
zuick, but Melissa bounced back
in the fourth to take the lead for
good.
The Eagles made the game
interesting again in the bottom
of the seventh inning with three
straight RBI hits from Jones,
Cutter McDonald and Parker
Mushinski before No. 8 hitter
Jarryd Byer drew a walk from
Zach Torres to load the bases for
Brandon Boyzuick, who
grounded out to second base to
end the game with the winning
run stranded at first base.
In all, the Eagles managed 11
hits on the night with eight of
those coming off Melissa’s ace
Wilson.
“That’s their ace tonight, and
we swung it about as good as we
can,” Griffin said. ‘You hope, in
that situation, against their ace
you ought to win the game. It
just didn’t work out for us to-
night.”
Now, Argyle is in the odd po-
sition of bouncing back from a
loss, much less a crushing loss
like Friday’s that saw a five-run
lead evaporate on one routine
groundball.
Griffin said he can’t say for
sure how his team will respond
when Game 3 begins today, but
he said his players seemed up-
beat and ready for the challenge,
looking to advance past the re-
gional quarterfinal round after
falling in the same round last
year.
Griffin will send Mushinski
to the mound and hope the Ea-
gles’ immense pitching depth,
especially for a Class 3A pro-
gram, will pay off against Melis-
sa.
“When he’s around the plate,
he’s tough for anybody to hit,”
Griffin said. ‘We feel good about
it going into it, but we didn’t
want to have to play on Satur-
day.”
Griffin said he expects Melis-
sa to throw Cade Cruce in the
decisive Game 3, a pitcher the
Eagles are familiar with.
“We have a lot of pitching,”
Griffin said. “It’s supposed to
give us an advantage. You hope
that it does. But they’ll have
Cruce going, and he’s a decent
pitcher. He’s got a good slider. If
we hit the ball like we did to-
night and play some defense,
though, we’re fine.”
ADAM BOEDEKER can be
reached at 940-566-6872 and
via Twitter at @aboedeker.
Melissa 12, Argyle 10
Melissa 006 240 0 - 12 13 8
Argyle 322 000 3 - 10 11 5
WP — Landon Wilson. LP — Seth Jones. SV — Zach Tor-
res. 2B — M: Camden Duzenak, Cade Cruce, Grant Meeks.
A: Parker Mushinski. 3B — M: Camden Duzenak. A: Dillon
Harp. HR—M: Camden Duzenak. Records—Melissa (26-
8-1). Argyle (29-4).
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