Lynn moves to World Series final

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Dave Thorpe
on May 29, 2009 9:56 PM | | Comments (0) |

Former Bishop Montgomery and El Camino College coach Rudy Garbalosa has led the Lynn University baseball team, which includes a pair of Torrance High graduates, to the NCAA Division II World Series final.

Daniel Flores and Justin Garica, both of whom went to Torrance High and Harbor College, are playing for Lynn, which plays in the World Series final Saturday against Emporia State.
Lynn defeated Belmont Abbey, 7-5, on Friday to reach the title game, which takes place  at noon at the USA National Training Complex in Cary, N.C. The game is being televised by CBS College Sports.

Flores hit a two-run home run against Belmont Abbey, which turned out to be the difference in the game.

UC San Diego, which boasts former South Torrance star Vance Albitz and former Mary Star standout Justin Robles, were eliminated from the World Series with a 5-3 loss to Emporia on Thursday.

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Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports for more than two years.

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