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Cactus
Shadows Baseball Scoreboard
March
16 - Lost to
Notre Dame 4 2
March 17 - Beat
Moon Valley 11 1
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March
24 - at Washington
March 28 - Home vs. Notre Dame
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Falcons
light up Rockets
Cactus Shadows ready for Wells Fargo 2 season
by
Jason Stone
CCUSD - Inexperience and a tough schedule have led to some
inconsistent play for the Cactus Shadows baseball team in
the early part of the 2006 season, but the Falcons put it
all together in an 11 1 home win over Moon Valley March 17.
Jerome Pena capped the win with a dramatic three run home
run in the fifth inning to end the game on the 10 run rule.
"We finally put it all together offensively," Cactus
Shadows coach Tom Scala said. "We had some big innings
and we hit the ball all over the ballpark." |
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Right
handed pitcher Mike Basco continued his impressive freshman season
by picking up the win to improve to 3 0 on the year.
The victory helped cushion the blow from three days earlier when
Notre Dame edged the Falcons 4 2 after Cactus Shadows left a handful
of runners on base.
"We just couldn't come up with the big hit," Scala said.
"We left too many runners on base. The pitching and the defense
was pretty good, but we didn't come together offensively."
Cactus Shadows (4 6 entering the week) played a pair of non region
games this week past press time before returning to Wells Fargo
2 Region play March 24 at Washington.
"That'll be the big one because we'll be back in region,"
Scala said. "We've had a tough schedule. If you go by the power
ratings, we have the toughest schedule of all the big schools in
the state of Arizona."
The Falcons have already faced Moon Valley, Sunnyside and Catalina
Foothills, the club that eliminated them from the 4A state tournament
Final Four last year, and was scheduled to face Chaparral pitcher
Charles Brewer, one of the top pitching prospects in the state this
year.
"It's crazy how tough our schedule has been," Scala said.
"And when you are rebuilding a young team, it's a bad combination."
When the Falcons face Washington, it will begin a stretch of eight
straight region games, with five of them the road. |
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