{"id":23821,"date":"2012-05-10T18:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T01:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23821"},"modified":"2012-05-10T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T04:56:07","slug":"tc-takes-title-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23821","title":{"rendered":"TC Takes Title, 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Calvin Copping went six strong to lead Temple City to the Title <\/p><\/div>\n

(Temple City) –\u00a0Calvin Copping went\u00a0six plus innings and\u00a0Kyle Starling came on to get the last three outs\u00a0to lead Temple City to a\u00a04-1 win over Monrovia and to\u00a0the Rio Hondo League\u00a0Crown Thursday.<\/p>\n

Copping allowed just three hits in his six frames while striking out six.\u00a0Monrovia’s only run came in the\u00a0first\u00a0inning when Joe Mata doubled in Justin Jones. Copping walked the leadoff batter in the seventh\u00a0before giving way to Starling.<\/p>\n

“He wanted the ball. I told him I pitched Corey (Copping) on Tuesday\u00a0and I needed him today,” said Temple City Coach Barry Bacon.\u00a0“He told me ‘I got this’ and he did. He wanted to show everybody\u00a0how good of a pitcher he was today. I honestly think he may\u00a0have pitched his way into a college scholarship today. He was that good.”<\/p>\n

After Monrovia got one in the first\u00a0the Rams came back with four in the second\u00a0courtesty of four walks by Mata. The Wildcats issued\u00a0eight walks in all. Kevin Shue and Brad Felty\u00a0relieved Mata and\u00a0combined to walk four more.<\/p>\n

Copping (Calvin) singled in the first inning\u00a0to get things started. He had\u00a0two of the Rams three hits.\u00a0Starling, Benji Sanderson, Gabriel Juarez and Cameron Legrand also scored in the inning.\u00a0Shue relived Mata in the second but wild pitched a run in.\u00a0That was all the\u00a0Rams needed as they held off M-Town the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

“Offensively we weren’t\u00a0exactly the Yankees. But those\u00a0walks were huge\u00a0because we worked the count and really earned them. We kept the pressure on by taking a lot of pitches,” Bacon said. “I really think we earned this league championship. They\u00a0(Monrovia) beat us two out of three but it came down to this one game and we got it done.”<\/p>\n

In the seventh inning\u00a0Nick\u00a0Carino walked to lead off the inning\u00a0and Starling came on. Mark Santano greeted him with a base hit to left\u00a0to put runners on first and\u00a0second. But Starling\u00a0then got\u00a0Reed Miller to line out, Jones on a fly ball\u00a0to right\u00a0and slammed the door by\u00a0striking out the last battter\u00a0looking.<\/p>\n

The Rams finished\u00a0the season 20-3-1 overall (10-2 in league) and will get a home game in the first\u00a0round of the playoffs next\u00a0Thursday.\u00a0Monrovia took second in the Rio Hondo at 9- 3 and 17-5 overall. The Cats will\u00a0also\u00a0begin the playoffs next week.<\/p>\n

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TC\u00a0\u00a00\u00a0 4\u00a0 0\u00a0 0\u00a0 0\u00a0 0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Temple City) –\u00a0Calvin Copping went\u00a0six plus innings and\u00a0Kyle Starling came on to get the last three outs\u00a0to lead Temple City to a\u00a04-1 win over Monrovia and to\u00a0the Rio Hondo League\u00a0Crown Thursday.<\/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":[2258,2061,7208,2030,7540,2553,3528,5310,7206,7539,4616,7541,15,7251,5095,6344,7427],"class_list":["post-23821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-barry-bacon","tag-benji-sanderson","tag-brad-felty","tag-calvin-copping","tag-cameron-legarnd","tag-corey-copping","tag-gabriel-juarez","tag-joe-mata","tag-justin-jones","tag-kevin-shue","tag-kyle-starling","tag-mark-santano","tag-monrovia-baseball","tag-nick-carino","tag-reed-miller","tag-rio-hondo-league","tag-temple-city-baseball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821","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=23821"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23831,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions\/23831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}