McGuire Helps Knock Rangers From NBC Series

Ryan McGuire didn’t make the final roster of the United States Olympic baseball team this summer, but he found another place to make his mark.

McGuire, a former El Camino Real High standout, had two doubles Thursday to lead Anchorage, Alaska, to an 18-3 rout of the Valley Rangers in an elimination game of the National Baseball Congress World Series at Wichita, Kan.

McGuire, a first baseman who will be a junior at UCLA in the fall, drove in four runs to lead Anchorage.

The game was called after five innings because of the tournament’s six-run mercy rule.

Anchorage pounded out 17 hits in the fifth-round game.

Tim Harkrider had three hits and a two-run double and teammate Carl Hall had two hits and three runs batted in for Anchorage.

After suffering their first series loss to Midlothian, Ill., 16-7, on Tuesday night, the Rangers defeated Cape Girardeau, Mo., 7-5, on Wednesday to remain alive in the double-elimination tournament.

The Rangers, a team based in Encino and coached by Frank Des Enfants, finished 28-19 and 3-2 in the World Series.