{"id":37881,"date":"2014-03-09T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37881"},"modified":"2014-03-09T19:29:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:29:14","slug":"st-francis-jumps-on-rosemead-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=37881","title":{"rendered":"St. Francis Jumps on Rosemead Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Corey Kowk<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3721\">(Rosemead) &#8211; St. Francis (1-1) built an early 7-0 lead, maintained it into the seventh, and withstood a late rally before prevailing 7-3 over Rosemead (0-1) Saturday for its first win of the season.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3718\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3801\"><!--more-->Starting pitcher Nickel Saavedra (1-0, 5 IP, 3 H, 3 K, 1 BB) pitched five shutout innings for St. Francis to earn the win.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3797\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3807\">The late Rosemead rally forced a save situation when first reliever Stanko Zovak wavered on four walks and one hit in straight succession that three runs later emerged out of, prompting a switch to Drew Nixon with the bases loaded and the tying run on deck.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3798\">Nixon gave up an RBI single to Matthew Campos (2\/3, RBI, BB), but got the job done inducing two flyouts to third baseman John Bicos to earn a save. Nixon also batted 2\/4 with a run.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3808\">Andres Kim (1\/3, BB, SB, 2 RBI) and Bicos, each drew walks during the first before breezing in on a two out, two run double to the alley by Jason Ajamian (1\/2, R, 2 RBI, 2 BB) to get it started for St. Francis.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3799\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3809\">The Golden Knights came out on fire in the second with four consecutive hits and an additional three runs as Nixon, Brandon Lewis (1\/2, R, BB), and Adam Shwery (1\/3, R) each laced singles.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3810\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3800\">Nixon scored on an infield error as a throw to Nab Shwery (who bunted for a single) glanced away, before Kim pummeled his first offering of that inning to dead center for a double to pick up both Lewis and Shwery. Jeremiah Martin pinch-ran in the fifth and stole two bases.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3816\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3811\">Ajamian led off the third with a walk and scored on a Mike Reilly double, while Bicos (1\/3, R, RBI-3b, BB), in the fourth, rocked a triple to deep left field which picked up Kevin Baker (1\/4, R, 2\/2 SB) to round out the Golden Knights&#8217; scoring.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3812\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1394418106046_3813\">Armani Garcia, Victor Maldonado, and Jonathan Chavez all walked and scored. Anthony Parra (0\/2, 2 BB) drew an RBI walk, while Campos and Angel Lopez (2\/4, RBI) had the RBI hits for Rosemead. Lopez pitched three shutout innings, walking two and allowing one hit, while Parra (0-1) took the loss with a rough four inning start.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Corey Kowk (Rosemead) &#8211; St. Francis (1-1) built an early 7-0 lead, maintained it into the seventh, and withstood a late rally before prevailing 7-3 over Rosemead (0-1) Saturday for its first win of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37881","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37883,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37881\/revisions\/37883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}