{"id":23202,"date":"2012-03-29T20:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T03:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23202"},"modified":"2012-03-29T23:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T06:04:39","slug":"monrovia-hands-temple-city-first-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23202","title":{"rendered":"Monrovia Hands Temple City First Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23203\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23203\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23203\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/SO-PAS-Mon-3-23-12-018-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monrova Co-Coach Brad Blackmore<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Corey Kwok<\/p>\n<p>(Temple City) &#8211; Monrovia\u00a0overcame a two run deficit with a four run\u00a0fourth and went on to beat Temple City\u00a04-2 Thursday in Rio Hondo League action.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats\u00a0(8-2, 3-1) finished the first round of Rio Hondo league play on top by 1\/2 a game with the victory over the Rams\u00a0(10-1-1), who suffered<br \/>\nthier\u00a0first overall and league loss of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams had yet to score heading into the bottom of the fifth as Rams pitcher Kyle Starling was rolling along with a three hit shutout, while the Wildcats&#8217; Joe Mata was enjoying a no-no. Benji Sanderson belted a long-hop single to the left-center shallows with one out in the fifth to break up Mata&#8217;s no-hitter. Then the next batter, Ben Arrue, down 1-2 in the count off a foul ball, crushed the ensuing pitch onto the parking lot over left field for a two run shot and 2-0 a TC lead.<\/p>\n<p>Monrovia responded in the sixth stanza, scoring all four runs as they twice loaded the bases with no outs. Nick Carino tied it up on a two run line single to right-center before Chris Burkholder, facing an 0-2 count, buzzed his offering through a narrow seam onto the lawn between the third baseman and the bag.<\/p>\n<p>Temple City threatened once more in the bottom of the seventh with one out and two on as Sanderson slashed an infield stinger and Arrue was struck by pitch. Burkholder,<br \/>\nwho entered to pitch at the start of the sixth, induced a 6-4-3 double play to extinguish the threat, earn a save and also, the M-Town win.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats also received terrific play in the outfield from right-fielder Carl Daniels, who caught an a foul fly ball flown his way to end the first inning before canning it once more in the fourth with a nice grab and leap over the first base fence.<\/p>\n<p>M \u00a00 0 0 0 0 4 0 \u00a0\u00a04 6 1<\/p>\n<p>TC 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 &#8211; 2 3 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Corey Kwok (Temple City) &#8211; Monrovia\u00a0overcame a two run deficit with a four run\u00a0fourth and went on to beat Temple City\u00a04-2 Thursday in Rio Hondo League action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5100,2061,7250,5311,5312,5310,4616,15,7251],"class_list":["post-23202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-ben-arrue","tag-benji-sanderson","tag-brad-blackmore","tag-carl-daniels","tag-chris-burkholder","tag-joe-mata","tag-kyle-starling","tag-monrovia-baseball","tag-nick-carino"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23205,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202\/revisions\/23205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}