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The Evening Leader PAGE B2 Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Royals From Page B1 Cain scored on a passed ball and Mike Moustakas had a sacrifice fly in an LCS-record fourrun top of the first. Escobar had four RBIs and Cain drove in three runs as the Royals bounced back from an 11-8 loss Monday. Kansas City led 5-2 in the seventh before breaking away. Blue Jays infielder Cliff Pennington relieved in the ninth inning, becoming the first primarily position player to pitch in the postseason, STATS said. Greeted by cheers, he allowed two hits and got one out. “The circumstances aren’t what you want,” Pennington of his first pitching appearance. Kansas City can win the pennant Wednesday, when Edinson Volquez starts against Toronto’s Marco Estrada in a Game 1 rematch. “It’s a do-or-die game for us,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “But they do it all year. I think these guys will let this one go and they’ll show up to play tomorrow. ... I know these guys will be
NLCSFrom Page B1 coming on the road. Jeurys Familia closed for his fifth save of the postseason. Kyle Schwarber had the towel-waving crowd shaking 101-year old Wrigley Field to its foundation in the first inning with his club-record fifth homer of the postseason. Jorge Soler also had them roaring with his solo drive in the fourth. But manager Joe Maddon’s Cubs have just five runs in this series. Barring an epic comeback, a World Series drought that dates to 1908 will continue. Only one other team has won a playoff series after dropping the first three games. Theo Epstein’s Red
ready.” After flashing power to build a 5-0 lead on the long ball, the Royals returned to their pesky ways late in the game against the Blue Jays’ struggling bullpen. They scored nine runs with three more sacrifice flies, a barrage of slashing hits and heads-up baserunning. “We’re a good offensive team,” first baseman Eric Hosmer said. “Our park, our style of play is a little different. We like to use our legs and be athletic, but when we come to some of these parks where the fences aren’t as deep we’ve got some guys that can put the ball in the seats.” Blue Jays fans had seen enough after Cain’s tworun single in the eighth, turning their ever-optimistic cheers to jeers when Mark Lowe replaced Ryan Tepera. The 36-year-old Chris Young bested Dickey, 40, in a bookish matchup of veteran starters — only the pairing of the Yankees’ Randy Johnson and Detroit’s Kenny Rogers in the 2006 ALDS tops the duo for combined age. But just like his counterpart’s effort in Game 4 of the Division Series
against Texas, the 6-foot10 Young was lifted one out shy of qualifying for a victory when Ned Yost went to his bullpen with a runner on first with two outs in the fifth. Yost wasn’t willing to take any chances against Josh Donaldson, who already had an RBI double. Dickey never had a chance to get that first playoff victory in a 13year big league career. Escobar got a hit leading off for the fourth straight game, starting this one with a bunt down the third-base line. Zobrist connected for his first homer of the ALCS. Rios homered in the second for a 5-0 lead. Booed all series by his old fans, he didn’t get any extra satisfaction out of the hit. “It’s just another team we have to go out and beat,” Rios said. After Dickey hit Escobar with a pitch — a call that needed replay review to get it right — he walked Cain one out later and was done after 1 2-3 innings. Young used that steep arm angle to outwit the powerful Jays, who were 53-28 at home in the regular season but just 11-14 with the roof closed —
which it was Tuesday. He held them hitless until Ryan Goins’ oneout single in the third. Donaldson drove him home with a ground-rule double down the left-field line on an 83 mph slider. Jose Bautista added an RBI grounder to close the gap to 5-2 and get those white towels twirling at Rogers Centre. But Luke Hochevar, Ryan Madson, Kelvin Herrera and Franklin Morales shut down the Blue Jays the rest of the way. Kansas City’s four-spot in the seventh to made it 9-2. Escobar and Hosmer had sacrifice flies to deep center, Cain singled to extend his postseason hitting streak to 13 games and Alex Gordon scored on Tepera’s wild pitch. Cain hit a two-run single in the eighth, and Escobar drove in two off Pennington in the ninth.
Sox came back against the New York Yankees in the 2004 AL Championship Series and ultimately ended one long championship curse. Now, the team he constructed in Chicago, that stirred the imaginations of long-suffering fans, finds itself in a similar spot. Cespedes broke a 2-all tie after he led off the sixth with a single against Cahill. He stole third and scored with two out as Conforto swung at a 2-2 pitch in the dirt. The ball rolled to the backstop, allowing the runner to reach first and extending the inning. Conforto was forced to stay at third when Wilmer Flores’ drive rolled to the ivy in right field was called a groundrule double. That drew a heated argument from Collins, who came back
out to protest some more after he returned to the dugout. The Mets added two more runs in the seventh to make it 5-2. Hendricks went four innings for Chicago, allowing two runs and five hits. Murphy made it 2-1 in the third with his drive to center off Hendricks. Besides tying Beltran’s record, he also set a Mets mark with his sixth postseason homer. The Mets are the fifth team to win the first three in the NLCS since it went to a seven-game format in 1985, along with Colorado in 2007, Atlanta in 1999, San Diego in 1998 and Atlanta in 1995. New York had never led any postseason series 3-0.
Mets: Matz looks to rebound from a loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the NL Division Series against the Dodgers. The rookie will also be making his first appearance at Wrigley Field — and his first against the Cubs. Cubs: After tossing three innings in the clinching Game 4 of the NLDS against St. Louis, Hammel will try to extend the season.
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Soccer
Rangers boys soccer ends season with loss to Pirates From staff reports
BLUFFTON — The New Knoxville varsity boys soccer team had its 2015 fall season come to an end Tuesday night as the Rangers lost to Bluffton 7-0 in the Division III sectional semifinal match. Bluffton will take on Lincolnview on Saturday in the sectional final. the match 25-8. Minster only allowed two service points the whole match. “For us the mentality lead. After an exchange of points, Heitbrink served was going to be huge for out the set for the 25-1 us,” Garman said. “We needed to limit our errors victory. The Wildcats were also because that has been a able to get some subs in problem for us. “We limit our errors the game to gain playing tonight. We didn’t allow experience. “That was a good thing ourselves to make misfor us,” Garman said. “It takes and that is why we is fun to let them get a full were able to be as sucset in too because they cessful as we were.” Heitbrink recorded don’t get a chance to do seven kills, seven aces that too often.” The Wildcats jumped and three digs. Hayley out to a 6-4 lead in the Baumer attleid 21 assists third set before Rosie and 10 aces. In other Midwest AthWesterbeck served four straight points. After an letic Conference news, exchange of points, Min- Neither the New Knoxster closed out the match ville Rangers or the New with a 13-4 run to win Bremen Cardinals vol-
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leyball teams played on Tuesday. Both were afforded a bye in the sectional semifinal round and will play in the sectional final on Thursday after determining who won on Tuesday. The Rangers will host Convoy Crestview at 6:30 p.m. Thursday after Crestview defeated Lincolnview in the semifinal 25-8, 25-13, 25-9 Tuesday night. The Cardinals will host Wayne Trace at 6:30 p.m. Thursday after the Raiders took down Lima Perry in three sets Tuesday 25-18, 25-19, 25-17. The higher seed host the sectional final matches, which both the Cardinals and Rangers are the higher seeds.
UP NEXT Volquez pitched twohit ball for six innings in a 5-0 win in the opener and recalled telling catcher Salvador Perez, “I feel sexy throwing down and away.” Estrada gave up three runs and six hits in 5 1-3 innings.
OHSAA Football Computer Ratings (Top 8 will qualify for the playoffs) DIVISION II Region 6 1. Cin. La Salle (7-1) 29.6875, 2. Cin. Turpin (8-0) 22.6875, 3. Lima Senior (7-1) 20.4625, 4. Kings Mills Kings (7-1) 19.0875, 5. Vandalia Butler (6-2) 18.2875, 6. Cin. Winton Woods (5-2) 18.0, 7. Cin. Glen Este (7-1) 17.6742, 8. Trenton Edgewood (7-1) 16.925, 9. Miamisburg (7-1) 15.625, 10. Ashville Teays Valley (6-2) 12.6875, 11. Riverside Stebbins (6-2) 9.4665, 12. Harrison (5-3) 9.0625 DIVISION III Region 8 1. Cle. Benedictine (8-0) 25.1125, 2. Clyde (7-1) 19.5875, 3. Sandusky Perkins (7-1) 17.9625, 4. Tol. Central Cath. (6-2) 17.9018, 5. Bay Village Bay (7-1) 17.8875, 6. Ashland (7-1) 17.0, 7. Rocky River (7-1) 15.9, 8. Bowling Green (7-1) 14.725, 9. Cle. John Hay (7-1) 12.8375, 10. Mansfield Madison Comp. (5-3) 11.525, 11. Lexington (6-2) 10.85, 12. Elida (5-3) 8.525 Region 10 1. Wapakoneta (8-0) 18.7625, 2. Tipp City Tippecanoe (7-1) 18.5125, 3. Trotwood-Madison (5-3) 16.975, 4. Celina (5-3) 15.1625, 5. New Richmond (6-2) 15.0991, 6. Piqua (5-3) 13.45, 7. St. Marys Memorial (6-2) 13.2125, 9. Goshen (6-2) 11.7997, 10. Wilmington (7-1) 11.425, 11. Cin. Mount Healthy (5-3) 11.0875, 12. Franklin (5-3) 10.7375 DIVISION IV Region 12 1. Wauseon (7-1) 14.6831, 2. Cols. Bishop Hartley (4-3) 14.3254, 3. Plain City Jonathan Alder (7-1) 14.149, 4. Springfield Kenton Ridge (7-1) 13.4659, 5. Ottawa-Glandorf (6-2) 11.825, 6. Napoleon (6-2) 11.3625, 7. Caledonia River Valley (6-2) 11.0878, 8. Port Clinton (6-2) 10.5875, 9. Lewistown Indian Lake (6-2) 9.9912, 10. Bellevue (6-2) 9.725, 11. Lima Bath (5-3) 9.325, 12. London (5-3) 8.2717 DIVISION V Region 18 1. Coldwater (8-0) 18.2875, 2. Brookville (8-0) 17.55, 3. Cin. Hills Christian Acad. (7-1) 14.5066, 4. West Milton Milton-Union (5-3) 11.5125, 5. Jamestown Greeneview (6-2) 10.8625, 6. Bethel-Tate (5-2) 8.6111, 7. Cin. Shroder (4-4) 7.9688, 8. London Madison Plains (4-4) 7.2, 9. Carlisle (4-4) 7.1375, 10. Cin. Madeira (4-4) 6.6559, 11. Richwood North Union (4-4) 6.3625, 12. Camden Preble Shawnee (3-5) 6.225 DIVISION VI Region 22 1. Maria Stein Marion Local (7-1) 14.5902, 2. West Liberty-Salem (6-2) 13.3125, 3. Cin. Country Day (8-0) 13.3024, 4. Mechanicsburg (8-0) 12.65, 5. Spencerville (8-0) 12.0125, 6. Delphos Jefferson (7-1) 11.3875, 7. Williamsburg (6-2) 10.4732, 8. Casstown Miami East (6-2) 9.125, 9. Harrod Allen East (6-2) 8.7875, 10. Bluffton (5-3) 8.525, 11. West Alexandria Twin Valley South (6-2) 8.4125, 12. St. Henry (5-3) 8.375 DIVISION VII Region 24 1. McComb (7-1) 11.2, 2. Lucas (8-0) 10.8634, 3. Hicksville (6-2) 9.4566, 4. West Unity Hilltop (6-2) 6.7, 5. Leipsic (3-5) 5.9125, 6. Convoy Crestview (3-5) 5.75, 7. Arlington (4-4) 5.7, 8. New Washington Buckeye Central (5-3) 5.3875, 9. Tiffin Calvert (4-4) 5.025, 10. Pandora-Gilboa (4-4) 4.7625, 11. Kansas Lakota (3-5) 3.8865, 12. Rawson Cory-Rawson (3-5) 3.2125 Region 26 1. Minster (6-2) 12.1125, 2. Covington (6-2) 11.2588, 3. DeGraff Riverside (7-1) 9.825, 4. Ada (5-3) 8.375, 5. Cin. Miami Valley Christian Acad. (6-1) 8.2013, 6. Fort Recovery (6-2) 7.9125, 7. Sidney Lehman Cath. (4-4) 6.9875, 8. McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley (5-3) 6.5375, 9. Fort Loramie (4-4) 5.4, 10. Troy Christian (4-3) 4.9762, 11. Springfield Cath. Central (4-4) 4.1212, 12. Bradford (4-4) 3.6974
TIRE COLLECTION Saturday
Event
October 24, 2015 8 AM to 12 PM At Auglaize County Solid Waste Management 15502 Saint Marys River Road, St. Marys, Ohio 45885 Tires collected FREE of charge from residents and agricultural operators in Auglaize County ONLY. COMMERCIAL BUSINESS ENTITIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
Limit 10 tires per vehicle. Tires must be off of rims. This is a ONE DAY COLLECTION and will be conducted only on October 24, 2015 during the above hours. Please contact the Solid Waste District Office at 419-394-1270 with any questions or for additional information
Funding through the Ohio EPA.