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CARIBBEAN TIGRES WIN CITRUS
CLASSIC FOR FOURTH TIME
The pitching-rich Caribbean Tigres of the NABA Palm Beach, Florida league
roared to their fourth Citrus Classic championship and their second in a
row, downing the NY/NJ White Sox 7-3 in the 18AA title game in Lantana,
Florida on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day).
Three Tigres hurlers combined to strike out 17 batters. After taking over
for starter Wilson Ciprian, who pitched the first five innings, hard
throwing Victor Prieto earned the win, striking out nine batters in three
innings while his teammates broke a 2-2 deficit with four runs in the sixth
inning to take a lead they never relinquished. Jose Acuna finished up with a
perfect 9th inning, striking out two. Ciprian had six strikeouts in his five
innings.
The rally began with a two base hit by Acuna. After Juan Veras drew a walk,
Nick Adames stroked a one out single to left, scoring courtesy runner
Francis Dinzey. Stalin DeLaRosa’s two out infield hit scored Veras, and the
White Sox allowed two more runs on back to back infield errors, scoring
Adames and DeLaRosa. The Tigres added an insurance run in the seventh on
Acuna’s second straight double. Veras singled home the final Tigres’ run.
The White Sox took a 1-0 lead in the fourth when Ray Montanez smashed a
triple to deep right and scored on pitcher David Jiminian’s single to left.
The Tigres came right back in the bottom of the inning with two unearned
runs. After a two out infield error allowed Veras to reach first, he stole
second, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on a single by Diego
Santos. Adames and Prieto both singled with Santos scoring on Prieto’s
single.
New York/New Jersey tied it in the fifth on singles by Ryan Postal and Adam
Light and a double by Frank Pacifico. The Sox got their only run off Prieto
in the eighth. Antuan Barnett and Jiminian singled. Barnett stole third and
scored on a throwing error to complete the scoring.
Tigres’ catcher Melvin Bruno had a double, two singles and stolen base to
lead the Caribbeans’ fifteen hit attack. Emilio Vargas, Acuna, Veras and
Adames all had two hits apiece. Light, Leyner and losing pitcher Jiminian
had two hits apiece for the White Sox.
Prieto was named the game’s Most Valuable Player. White Sox’ right fielder
Barnett received the Goold Glove award, making three fine catches in right
field.
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BOX SCORE
123 456 789 R H E
NY/NJ WHITE SOX 000 110 010——– 3 10 3
CARIBBEAN TIGRES 000 204 10x——– 7 15 1
WHITE SOX (3) AB R H BI BB SO CARIBBEAN TIGRES (7) AB R H BI BB SO
Frank Pacifico cf 3 0 1 1 1 1 Melvin Bruno c 4 0 3 0 0 0
Ray Montanez ss** 4 2 1 0 0 2 Emilio Vargas lf 4 0 2 0 0 1
Antuan Barnett rf 3 0 1 0 1 2 Geraldo Vasquez ss 4 0 0 0 0 0
David Jiminian p 3 0 2 1 1 1 Francis Dinzey 1b 4 2**0 0 0 1
Jason Leyner dh 4 0 2 0 0 2 Jose Acuna dh 4 0 2 0 0 1
Danny Mercado eh 4 0 0 0 0 3 Juan Veras cf 3 2 2 1 1 0
Ryan Postal 1b 4 0 1 0 0 2 Diego Santos 3b 4 1 2 1 0 0
Tobin Whitman lf* 3 1 0 0 0 1 Nick Adames rf 4 1 2 1 0 0
Adam Light c 4 0 2 0 0 1 Victor Prieto eh-p 4 0 1 1 0 1
Luis Amador 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 Stalin DeLaRosa 2b 4 1 1 1 0 1
Darian Barranco 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wilson Ciprian p 0 0 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 36 3 10 2 3 17 TOTALS 39 7 15 5 1 5
*Scored one run as courtesy runner **Scored two runs as courtesy runner
Left-White Sox 10 Tigres 9 E-Montanez 2, Barranco, Bruno DP-White Sox 3
Tigres 0 2B-Bruno, Acuna 2, Pacifico 3B-Montanez HR-None SB-Montanez 2,
Bruno, Veras
WP-Jiminian 2, Prieto 2
White Sox IP H R ER BB SO TIGRES IP H R ER BB SO
Jiminian (L) 8 15 7 3 1 5 Ciprian 5 6 2 2 0 6
Prieto (W) 3 4 1 0 2 9
Acuna 1 0 0 0 0 2
Managers-Sal Nicosia (NY/NJ); Santos Adames (Tigres)
MVP-Victor Prieto (Tigres) Gold Glove-Antuan Barnett (White Sox)
Umpires-Roger Bloat, Chuck Loucks Time: 2:34
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