{"id":6623,"date":"2010-05-06T23:04:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T06:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=6623"},"modified":"2010-05-06T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T06:05:42","slug":"murphee-pitches-cats-to-brink-of-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=6623","title":{"rendered":"Murphee Pitches Cats to Brink of Title"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aaron Murphee threw six and two-thirds scoreless innings <\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n

(Temple City) \u2013 Nick Bueno singled to open the game, advanced on a base hit by Jairo Jiorge and eventually scored on a ground ball by Robert Nakamura. It was the only run Monrovia needed as Aaron Murphee made it stand up in a 1-0 win over Temple City Thursday to take control of the Rio Hondo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing that the first batter scored and that was the only run of the game,\u201d said Monrovia Co-Coach Dave Moore. \u201cThey (Temple City) had base runners but Aaron always got the pitch or the out he needed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Murphee struck out eight and allowed 8 hits. He worked six and two thirds before being relieved by Chris Calver who go the last batter to pick up the save.<\/p>\n

In the bottom of the seventh, Dusty Sanderson beat out an infield grounder to the right side for a hit with one out. With two out, Branden Pultz lined a singe to right to put runners on first and second. Then Calver relieved Murphee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plan was to let Aaron finish the game,\u201d Moore said. \u201cBut we looked at the matchups and Chris has a great slider and it worked out. It was one of the rare coaching decisions that actually worked,\u201d Moore laughed.<\/p>\n

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Temple City's Calvin Copping nearly matched Murphee pitch for pitch<\/p><\/div>\n

Calver got Justin Smith to hit a hard ground ball to short. Nakamura originally bobbled it but he recovered and carried it to second base for the force to end it.<\/p>\n

Murphee needed to be on his game to outduel Calvin Copping. The sophomore went the distance, allowing only the first inning run. Copping fanned eight and scattered six hits.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just two kids battling. Copping pitched a great game,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n

With the win Monrovia improved to 11-1 in the Rio Hondo, while Temple City dropped to 10-3. The Wildcats have three games left while Temple City has two.<\/p>\n

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By Tim Peterson (Temple City) \u2013 Nick Bueno singled to open the game, advanced on a base hit by Jairo Jiorge and eventually scored on a ground ball by Robert Nakamura. It was the only run Monrovia needed as Aaron Murphee made it stand up in a 1-0 win over Temple City Thursday to take […]<\/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":[2265,2030,2425,2873,2287,2872,777,209,1175,2426],"class_list":["post-6623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-branden-pultz","tag-calvin-copping","tag-chris-calver","tag-dave-moore","tag-dusty-sanderson","tag-jairo-jiorge","tag-justin-smith","tag-nick-bueno","tag-rio-hondo","tag-robert-nakamura"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","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=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6627,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}