High School Baseball : Hard-Luck Genie Tosses No-Hitter but Franklin Bottled Up by Wilson

Sammy Genie has built a reputation few pitchers want. The right-handed senior from Franklin is one of the area’s hard-luck pitchers, especially after he threw a no-hitter against Wilson but lost, 1-0, Tuesday in a Northern League game at Wilson.

The tough loss is not Genie’s first. As a sophomore, he pitched a one-hitter against Crossroads but lost.

To his credit, Genie has won all four of his two-hitters.

Wilson (10-0, 6-0 in league play) scored in the bottom of the sixth on a walk and two consecutive errors. Genie walked four and struck out seven.

Genie wasn’t the only one throwing well. Wilson’s Marty Romero tossed a one-hitter, striking out seven and walking two. The Panthers managed to get only three runners to second base.

“I was a little upset,” Franklin Coach Rick Campbell said. “We hit the ball hard all day, but it was right at them.”

Hart 3, Alhambra 0--Robby Davis threw a two-hitter as host Hart, the Times’ No. 1-ranked Valley team, extended its win streak to 18 in a Foothill League game that was called after five innings because of rain.

Hart (18-0, 8-0) is the only undefeated team in the state, according to Cal-Hi sports.

Ray Gardocki, who leads Hart with 27 runs batted in, started the Indians’ scoring in the first with a sacrifice fly that scored Lance Migita.

Casey Burrill walked with the bases loaded in the fourth for Hart’s final run.

Burroughs 10, San Gabriel 1-- Keith Morris led Burroughs’ attack by going 3 for 4 with four RBIs in the Foothill League game at San Gabriel.

E. J. Pape showed no effects from an ankle injury, going 4 for 4 with two RBIs.

Scott Clark also had a big day for the Indians (9-7, 5-3 in league), going 3 for 3 with three RBIs. Brian Forth (3-1) pitched a complete game for Burroughs, allowing three hits and striking out seven.

Notre Dame 8, St. John Bosco 1--Matt McElreath hit a two-run single with the bases loaded to snap a 1-1 tie in the fifth and lead a four-run Notre Dame rally in a Del Rey League game at St. John Bosco.

Chad Ratliff, who was 2 for 4 with three RBIs, had a two-run single in the fifth and a run-scoring double in the seventh.

Mike Peterson (5-2) struck out five in pitching a five-hitter for the win.

Notre Dame improved to 12-6, 4-1.

Saugus 19, Canyon 13--Tom Dodson knocked a two-run double with the bases loaded to lead an 11-run Saugus rally in the fifth inning of a Golden League game at Canyon that was called after five innings because of rain.

George Lopata added a run-scoring double in the fifth as Saugus (12-6, 6-2) had six hits and five walks in the inning.

Darrell Davis had three hits and Dodson, Lopata, Andy Regenberg and Jeff Bodeau had two hits each for Saugus.

Bodeau (6-3) gave up 10 hits in going the distance for the win.

Cory Byars added a three-run triple for Canyon (4-9, 3-5).

Schurr 5, Burbank 2--Schurr broke open a 2-2 tie with three runs in the fifth inning in the Foothill League game at Burbank. Schurr knocked out five hits in the inning to make a loser of Wayne Schull (0-4).

Burbank fell to 4-8, 0-8.

Crescenta Valley 11, Hoover 9--Shane Cowsill hit a two-run triple to snap an 8-8 tie in the seventh and scored the final run in the Pacific League game at Hoover.

Eric Anderson singled home Cowsill, who had three RBIs, from third as Crescenta Valley (8-8, 3-5) rallied for three runs in the seventh.

Mike Starkey’s two-run home run in the sixth put the visitors ahead, 8-3, before Hoover rallied for five runs in the bottom of the inning. Starkey went 4 for 4 with four RBIs.

Harvard 3, Pater Noster 3--Buck Robinson of Harvard was 2 for 3 with a triple in the Santa Fe League game at Scholl Park in Glendale that was called after six innings because another team had to use the baseball diamond.

Harvard (6-7-1, 3-3) held a 3-1 lead after 5 1/2 innings, but Pater Noster scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth to tie the score.

Crossroads 10, Faith Baptist 9--The Roadrunners scored seven runs with two out in the fifth inning to win a Delphic League game at Faith Baptist that was called after the fifth inning because of rain.

Crossroads, the No. 2 team in the Southern Section 1-A Division, had three doubles and four walks with two out in the fifth and scored the game-winning run on a Faith Baptist error.

Richard Leon gave Faith Baptist (8-6, 1-2), the No. 8 team in the 1-A, a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning with a three-run shot, and Troy Prehmus followed with another homer to give the Contenders (8-6, 1-2) a four-run lead. Faith Baptist led by as many as seven runs.

Grace Community 14, Newbridge 1--Matt Teachoug and Tony Saccaro led the Hawks in the Westside League game that was called after three innings because of the mercy rule.

Teachoug went 3 for 3 with two doubles and had four RBIs and Saccaro was 2 for 3 with a double, triple and three RBIs.

Grace Community is 8-5, 2-0.

Bell-Jeff 12, Salesian 1--Junior Rod Arancibia (4-5) gave up three hits, struck out eight batters and walked two in five innings as Bell-Jeff rolled to a Santa Fe League victory at Salesian.

Arancibia got offensive support from Marvin Martinez, Mike Cesta, Tom Stanley, Greg Isaacson and Steve Kenezevic, who each had two hits.

Martinez, a sophomore who had been called up from the junior varsity ranks on Monday, was 2 for 4 with a triple and two RBIs.

Cesta and Isaacson had two RBIs and Stanley and Kenezevic drove in one run each for Bell-Jeff (6-7-1, 4-3).