BREAKING NEWS: La Salle's bid for title falls short, loses 3-2 to Marymount in the CIF-Southern Section Division VI Championships here in Irvine.
UPDATE 7: No one can say they didn't get goose bumps from the seventh inning. Colleen McWilliams singled and reached second on an error and Sterling Shuster doubled to center to score McWilliams to pull La Sale within 3-2. With the tying run at second, Forillo worked the count but flied out to left. Everyone here got up from their seat thinking it was a home run but it was short. Marymount clinches the Division VI championship with a 3-2 victory Saturday morning at Deanna Manning Stadium here in Irvine. Great run for the Lancers. This truly was a memorable run regardless of the outcome.
UPDATE 6: It's now or never. La Salle trails 3-1 heading to the top of the seventh. Marymount is three outs away from clinching the Division V championship game. What a story if the Lancers make quite the comeback. Crowd is on its feet as Melissa Miller heads to the plate.
UPDATE 5: Victoria Baltazar tripled to right, bringing Tripoli home to pull La Salle within 3-1. Samantha Krost pops up to the catcher for the third out. We're headed to the bottom of the sixth, Marymount leading 3-1.
UPDATE 4: La Salle is trailing, 3-0. Megan Blank walked, stole second and Ali Griffith's base hit to third moved Blank to third. Kelly Abram's RBI single to right scored Blank for the 2-0 lead. Hannah Zimmerman's RBI single to right then scored Ali Griffiths to give Marymount a 3-0 lead. We're in the top of the sixth and La Salle is threatning with Katie Tripoli doubling to center.
UPDATE 3: Colleen McWilliams sgingled between the 5-6 gap with two outs. Sherling Shuster pops up to short for the final out. Freddy Robledo is sitting next to me so I have to be on my best behavior, since he's my editor and all. Can't say he's on his best behavior, constantly asking when this "consolation" game is going to be over. Don't worry, I disconnected the battery cord on his laptop. Deadline should be fun for him.
UPDATE 2: La Salle almost fell apart in the bottom of the fourth. Two errors led to Marymount's run to go up 1-0. Allie Forillo threw a wild pitch that almost got away if not for Katie Tripoli recovering and tagging out Hannah Zimmerman at home for the third out. The bases were loaded in that inning.
UPDATE 1: Everything went according to plan. I woke up at 8 a.m. and figured to be out the door by 8:30 to be in Irvine by 9 a.m. I must have been lagging it because by the time I got to Deanna Manning Stadium it was 9:50 a.m. I stopped by McDonald's for some sausage McMuffins; haven't had one of those since getting up early for the USC-UCLA football game. Anyway, the game is going pretty fast. We're in the top of the third and we're scoreless.
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I know it's borderline, but Duarte is technically the Tribune's school. Until Miguel I don't recall Duarte being mentioned too heavily in TSN. There are never Duarte players on the all area team either. Look at the archives. So fetch old Fred J on it.
The source of your confusion is reading comprehension.
Once again, sports page ..... add resources.
Better product.
You see less resources as a way to get improved coverage across the valley?
It was just a simple question.
Sorry, but both of your comments are confusing to me.
So you are saying that PSN should pay attention to smaller details in whatever coverage they do to satisfy their readers, rather than limiting detail and focusing on general, broad-stroke coverage that no one really cares about?
chky
What do you have trouble understanding about " decide if MORE is warranted in Sports coverage".
MORE does not mean deleting one sports' coverage and replacing it for another, nor does MORE mean directing the resources you do have AT FOOTBALL and ignoring other sports.
Finally, my statement "less is not more" is 100% clarity - and should have clued you in that GA was not suggesting anyone's favorite sport be overlooked or covered less. The gist is PSN is shrinking their scope covering what readership opens the paper in hopes of finding...and when they do happily find it, there is less of it to enjoy.
Maybe the reason people tend to get irate with you - is you have a predisposition to read conflict into situations where there is none, and sport a particularly thin skin regarding your sport of choice.
A "review of staffing" mentioned - is a further note to PSN management of the obvious need for additional manpower to cover athletic events - ALL athletic events,(no mention of football only) especially in the case of event and sport overlap, where coverage somewhere will get sacrificed.
No where is less coverage mentioned. But since you seem amused by it - yeah that pisses me off - the demise of the D-rock football program is not a joke to me or many others, including kids who are losing the opportunity to participate. That is news that should be reported, and is within the PSN wheelhouse to report it.
Goldenarm,
Let me get this right. You want less coverage of other sports so that the paper can report that a football program doesn't have enough kids showing up to maintain a team and the other one can't keep a coaching staff together?
Miquel,
Simply put - PSN managers need to review staffing, review bang for buck as far as subscribers, and decide if MORE is warranted in Sports coverage.
Right now, Duarte High School is in serious jeopardy of losing it's entire football season and maybe program, as 7 total kids are all that have shown up for spring practice...not just Varsity, but all levels, 7 kids. This is now old news - and still not mentioned by PSN.
Blair may have been derailed from a promising season because of a late coach departure from the campus- or not? We (readership) don't really know one way or the other.
IT IS NOT A RAG JOB ON YOU MIGUEL...but if management see the struggle, see's timeliness start to fade...they are the one's tasked with making it right!
Less is not more, and comprimising quality of coverage just to get coverage - ain't exactly journalistic heaven either.
"it was a home run but it was short."
I have video of the game and the last out of the game was definitely nowhere close to a home run. Give Marymount a little bit of credit.
well don't address it on this thread, or for that matter, don't address is at all... anymore.
Chky:
Why don’t you cut Miggy some slack. Hey, the poor guy spent a Friday date night at Blair Field reporting on Maranatha’s CIF championship game and this morning in Irvine doing La Salle’s quest, which just fell short, at their championship run. Don’t post on this entry which should be reserved to La Salle, going off on the Private vs Public School’s game.
Later
Chky, I will address it when I don't have all these stories to write on deadline.
Miguel,
please change the "situation" or at least address it.
It's a little bit of a diss to the RHL if you ask me. Remember there are only two leagues that all of the teams are in your area, the Prep League and the RHL.
So what's the score!!Hits!!What's going on!
So what's going on....Score! Hits!