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Little League City Championship
Ochoa's Wins
Minor League Championship
Madera's American Little
League swept the 2008 City Championship Saturday night at Town &
Country Park for the second straight year. In the majors Lee's Concrete
appeared in their fourth straight City Championship game, winning
their third straight city title. This year was a rematch to last
years city game with the National League's Pete's Sport Shop
attempting to end Lee's dynasty and claim the city title for
themselves.
Scott Roberts for
Pete's and Sal Martinez for Lee's took to the mound for a
classic pitchers duel. Robert's only allowed three hits and one
walk, striking out 11 batters in five innings. Martinez threw
for five and a third innings allowing three hits, one walk and
no runs.
Both teams advance to the
Little League District 10 Tournament of Champions. Madera
National will face the teams from the northern end of the
district while Madera American will head to the southern end of
the district. Pete's will face Chowchilla tonight
night. Lee's Concrete will travel to Selma. |
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 Grizzlies
Set Attendance Record & Beat Giants
Giants And Grizzlies Renew Player Development
Contract Through 2010
In
a banner night for the city of Fresno, and the Central Valley
baseball community, the Fresno Grizzlies established a new
Chukchansi Park attendance record on the same evening they
defeated their parent club, the San Francisco Giants, 4-3 in an
exhibition contest. A standing-room-only crowd of 14,084 packed
Chukchansi Park for the game, the Giants first visit to Fresno
since 2003.
The
Giants struck first in their first time at-bat, but Fresno
responded with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the
inning against San Francisco starter Barry Zito. After the
big leaguers took the lead back with two runs in the sixth
inning, the Grizzlies responded with a run of their own to
knot the score at 3-3. In the seventh, after Travis
Ishikawa reached on an error, Fresno’s Ivan Ochoa doubled to
deep-center to score him with what proved to be the game’s
deciding run. Zito suffered the loss, while Fresno’s Billy
Sadler earned the win with a scoreless inning of relief. |
