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August 18, 2005 - Central Baseball League (Central League) News Release


SHREVEPORT 10, EL PASO 4 @ Shreveport, La. Time: 2:47 ATT: 1,188 W: Mal Winters (1-3) L: Travis Teeter (5-4) S: None HR: EP - Carlos Sepulveda (19) SHR - Enohel Polanco (7) The Sports kept their playoff hopes alive with a decisive victory over El Paso, pulling to a tie with the Diablos at two games back of San Angelo in the wild card race with two to play. Shreveport broke a 4-4 tie in the sixth when C Jason Torres, who had doubled to start the inning, scored on an error by 3B Marc Mirizzi. The Sports then picked up four runs in the seventh, all with two outs, starting when SS Enohel Polanco homered and finishing with another pair of unearned runs - 2B Brandon Haygood and LF Mike Willis scored on an error 2B Jorge Diaz. Mal Winters notched the win with three innings of relief, allowing an unearned run on two hits. Travis Teeter took the loss, allowing eight runs, five of them earned, in six and two-thirds innings. It wasn't the Diablos' night in the field, as they committed five errors contributing to four unearned runs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAN ANGELO 8, PENSACOLA 2 @ Pensacola, Fla. Time: 2:45 ATT: 1,549 W: Jed Jensen (4-4) L: Santos Hernandez (9-6) S: None HR: SA - J.P. Schmidt (12) PEN - Larry Bethea (20) The Colts put themselves in good position to claim the league's final wild card berth, taking the first game of the season-ending series from Pensacola. Jed Jensen went a solid six innings, allowing two runs on five hits and Luis Ramirez and B.J. Litchfield were stellar in relief to hold the lead. Up 1-0 going into the fifth inning, San Angelo started adding to their advantage with RBI singles from DH Jorge Alvarez and 1B Kevin Grijak. Pensacola got one back in the inning's second half, but the Colts picked up three more in the sixth and took a seven-run lead in the seventh when J.P. Schmidt knocked the pitch from Michael Settle deep to left-center for two runs. DH Larry Bethea hit his 20th homer in the bottom of the seventh inning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- COASTAL BEND 7, JACKSON 5 @ Robstown, Texas. Time: 2:52 ATT: 2,058 W: James Lira (5-1) L: Jacob Blakeney (2-2) S: Alex Dutka (1) HR: CB - Edwin Maldonado (9) The Aviators sent twelve men to the plate in the third inning and six of them scored, giving Coastal Bend a lead they would hold the rest of the game. James Lira got the win, his fifth, allowing two runs and striking out seven in five innings and Alex Dutka picked up his first save of the year with a hitless ninth inning. RF Mike Guerrero was 3-for-4 for the Aviators, including a seventh-inning RBI triple. Guerrero tried to stretch the hit and was thrown out at the plate on the relay from 2B Erick Mejias, colliding with C Josh Lindstrom, who was able to hold onto the ball for the out. SS Edwin Maldonado had two hits, one a two-run homer, in three trips to the plate and leadoff man Chris Judkins had three base knocks. Mejias was 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored for the Senators. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDINBURG 8, FORT WORTH 7 @ Edinburg, Texas. Time: 3:09 ATT: 3,437 W: Brian Martin (1-0) L: Juan Figueroa (3-4) S: None HR: FW - John Allen (11) EDI - Cedric Harris (2) Edinburg may have clinched their playoff spot, but they haven't gotten complacent. The Roadrunners stayed hot, winning their fourth consecutive one-run game and sixth in a row overall in dramatic fashion, erasing a four-run deficit and scoring twice with two outs in the ninth to move to within two games of the Cats in the second-half standings with two left to play. Down 7-3 in the eighth inning, DH Cedric Harris hit a two-out, two-run homer to cut the lead in half. Seemingly jumpstarted by the long ball, CF Amado German followed with a single and SS Kip Harkrider walked, bringing up 1B Patrick O'Sullivan, who was good for an RBI hit that brought Edinburg within one going into the ninth. Juan Figueroa recorded two quick outs, but walked RF Eric Gonzalez, setting up Eddie Lara to tie the game with a pinch-hit double. Lara ended up at third base on the throw, and the advance turned out to be Fort Worth's undoing: he scored the game winner on a wild pitch.

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