Fr e e Pr e ss SSpp o o r r t t ss Colby Free Press Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Page 9 Lady Eagles tennis team wins home meet The Colby High varsity tennis Other schools at the meet in- Victoria and Phillipsburg. brought home another another cluded Great Bend, Meade, Dodge Wark finished first with a 3-0 re- trophy on Tuesday placing first in City, Pratt, Scott City, the Garden cord. She shut out Phillipsburg (8- their home meet at Fike Park and City varsity and junior varsity, Ul- 0) and Osborne (8-0) and crushed the courts on the Colby Commu- ysses, Cimarron and Hays. Hoisington (8-3). nity College campus on Tuesday. Wark easily defeated all her Bickner and Hockersmith also The Lady Eagles finished first out opponents, including Pratt (8-0), took first. The tandem hammered of eight teams. Scott City (8-1) and Liberal (8-2). Hoisington (8-3) and clobbered Junior Caitlyn Wark continued Bickner and Hockersmith fin- Larned (8-1). her undefeated season by going ished first with a 3-0 record. They Shoaff lost twice to Hoisington 3-0 in No. 1 singles action. The blanked Cimarron (8-0), defeated (8-0, 8-6) but she defeated Norton No. 1 doubles team of senior Bar- Hays (8-4) and hammered Meade (8-6). Gerstner and Dougherty bara Bickner and junior Kayla (8-3). lost to Norton (8-7), losing the tie- Hockersmith placed first with a Shoaff placed first in No. 2 breaker 7-3. They lost their other 3-0 record. singles, going 3-0 on the day. She match to Larned (8-4). Junior Lauren Shoaff placed crushed Scott City (8-2), defeated The girls were dominating a second with a 2-1 record. Juniors Hays (8-4) and got by Dodge City meet at Scott City last Monday Kimberly Gerstner and Megan in a tiebreaker (10-8). before it got rained out. Dougherty also finished second Gerstner and Dougherty came Wark easily defeated her oppo- with a record of 2-1. in fourth. The duo crushed Scott nents from Garden City (6-0) and The junior varsity also compet- City (8-1) and Ulysses (8-1), but Scott City (6-1). ed in the meet. More descriptive lost to Dodge City (8-2) and Gar- Bickner and Hockersmith beat details of the meet will be featured den City (8-4). Tribune (8-6). on the sports page later this week. The girls finished third out of Shoaff went 2-0 on the day with The Lady Eagles placed first on eight teams in a meet at Russell wins over Garden City (6-1) and Saturday, finishing first out of 11 last Thursday. Scott City (6-0). Gerstner and teams at Garden City, with three Hoisington took first; other Dougherty and hammered both of four entrees taking first in their teams at the meet included Rus- their opponents, beating Garden competition. sell, Larned, Osborne, Norton, City (8-2) and Scott City (8-1). Royals give up two late runs; Kansas City loses to Yankees NEW YORK (AP) — The regu- The custom all season, Burnett Anthony Lerew his first major lar season has been such a rousing pasted Miranda in the face with league win. Called up from Dou- success for the Yankees that even a whipped cream pie during his ble-A last week, Lerew quieted fourth-string backups and little- television interview on the field. a Yankees lineup filled mostly known minor leaguers are getting Nine players have game-ending with regulars. He yielded only in on the fun. hits for the Yankees this year, in- solo homers to Teixeira and Nick That’s just fine with A.J. -Bur cluding two rookies who spent Swisher in six-plus innings. ANDY HEINTZ/Colby Free Press nett, who has plenty of whipped most of the season in the minors: “He deserved a lot better. He Colby High junior Katera Karter hustled to get to the ball during the Colby High tennis team’s home cream for all of them. Miranda and Francisco Cervelli. was outstanding. He maintained meet on Tuesday. Burnett pitched well in an en- “There are two guys left on the his composure really well,” Roy- couraging playoff tuneup and New list,” Burnett said, thinking of als manager Trey Hillman said. York rallied for two runs in the Mark Teixeira and . Looking for his 100th career ninth inning Tuesday night, beat- “Tex and Jeet.” win, Burnett allowed two runs — Pinch hitter’s two-run homer ing the Kansas City Royals 4-3 for Following its big league-best one earned — and three hits in 6 its seventh straight victory. 15th walk-off win, New York 1-3 innings. He struck out eight Seldom-used Juan Miranda (102-56) is 46 games above .500 and walked three. gives Rockies extra inning win got the game-winning off ex- for the first time since finishing He was originally scheduled Yankee Kyle Farnsworth (1-5), an 114-48 in 1998. With a 57-23 re- to pitch Monday but his turn was DENVER (AP) — The only a playoff berth. out over the plate. infield single that caromed off the cord at home, the Yankees said pushed back a day so he could be bigger surprise than the man Iannetta, who homered off “He spun a slider,” Kendall said. reliever’s leg and into foul terri- they matched the record for most with his father, who had triple by- whose homer sent the game into Weathers in Cincinnati earlier this “I was just trying to hit a liner up tory between home plate and first victories at a ballpark in its first pass surgery. extra innings was the man whose season, sent a 3-2 fastball into the the middle. I don’t hit home runs, base. season — Boston went 57-20 at Burnett is slated to start the homer ended it. Rockies’ bullpen in right-center he spun one and I got the good Miranda raised his arms in ju- Fenway Park in 1912, according regular-season finale Sunday at Pinch-hitter Chris Iannetta hit a for his 16th homer and first career part of the bat on it. He just left bilation as he crossed the bag and to research by the Elias Sports Tampa Bay, following CC Sa- two-run shot off David Weathers game-ending drive. it up.” the AL East champions rushed Bureau. bathia on Friday and in the 11th inning to give the Col- One pitch before, Iannetta near- Matt Belisle (3-1) picked up the out of the dugout to celebrate as New York’s 50th comeback vic- on Saturday. orado Rockies a 7-5 victory over ly went around for strike three but win with a perfect 11th. Weathers if they’d just won a playoff series. tory, also tops in the majors, cost That would put Burnett in line Milwaukee on Tuesday night. The first base umpire Derryl Cousins (4-6) walked Brad Hawpe and got Brewers had tied it on Jason Ken- ruled he held up. pinch-hitter Jason Giambi to pop dall’s three-run shot in the ninth. “That’s irrelevant,” Weath- out before Iannetta connected. The Rockies widened their NL ers said when asked for his take. Jason Marquis gave up two wild-card lead to three games over “You’ve got to go out there, make earned runs and six hits in six Atlanta with five games remain- pitches, get people out and do innings, and was in line for his ing, and their unlikely hero on this your job. Tonight, I didn’t make career-high 16th win before Street night was the backup who the pitch I needed to to get out of absorbed his second blown lost his starting job last month it and I paid the price. I was trying of the season. when got into a to throw a fastball away, it came Despite failing for the fourth groove at the plate. back over and he hammered it.” time to get his 16th win, Marquis “It’s tough because you want to The crowd of 39,087, pretty big said he felt as if he found his re- play,” Iannetta said. “Torry’s been for a Tuesday night in downtown lease point and answered ques- playing incredibly well and it’s Denver, let loose a loud cheer tions about his worthiness for a what needed to happen. I’ve been when the Braves’ 5-4 loss to the postseason rotation spot. struggling for most of the year. Marlins was announced on the Milwaukee left-hander Chris He’s come up big the last month scoreboard in the middle of the Narveson baffled all of the Rock- and won some games for us ... so I sixth. ies except Helton, who hit a run- understand it completely. And there was a collective groan scoring single in the first inning “But it doesn’t change your de- when Kendall, who also had a run- and chased him with an RBI sire to want to play and want to scoring groundout, hit a drive off double in the sixth that tied it at 2. contribute. That’s what I’ve said Huston Street with one out this whole time: I just want to be in the ninth to tie it at 5. able to contribute — and it was Kendall has just one other hom- great to do so.” er in 433 at-bats this season. His teammates were just as “There’s probably two people in thrilled. the league that a never “It’s good to see I-Man hit that enters your mind — (David) Eck- home run right there,” Todd Hel- stein and Kendall,” Street said. NOW SHOWING ton said. “Every time he goes up “And Kendall might actually be to the plate, you pull for him. He’s No. 1. 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