June 12, 2002      Campbell, California     Since 1999



The Score

District 44 Tournament of Champions play begins By   Dick Sparrer It's the time of the year for champions. And the major and minor division champions in Little League District 44 will share that special time beginning next week when Tournament of Champions (TOC) play gets under way on area fields. Major and minor division tournaments begin June 17 and wind up on June 26, with championship games to be played at Holman Field, the home of the Campbell Little League. Campbell, Cupertino American, Sunnyvale Metro, Los Altos, Santa Clara Homestead, Sunnyvale National, Moreland, Sunnyvale Southern, Sunnyvale Serra, Mountain View, Cupertino National, Tri-Cities, Santa Clara Westside and Santa Clara Briarwood-El Camino all field teams in the two divisions. TOC play in the junior (ages 13-14) and senior (15-16) baseball divisions will wrap up with championship games June 30 at Farrell Field at Sunnyvale Middle School. The girls softball major and junior division TOCs will be held June 22-24 at Sunnyvale Middle School and at Meyerholz School in San Jose. The District 44 all-star tournaments will run June 29-July 19, with winners advancing to sectional play July 20-25. Section champs move on to the Northern California Divisional tournaments. District 44 and Sunnyvale National Little League will host the Western Regional Major (11 -12) Softball Tournament Aug. 2-5 at Washington Park in Sunnyvale. League playoffs were to begin June 11 in the Campbell Little League. Murdick Trucking had entered play last week with a slim, half-game lead over Robins in the major division race. Murdick was atop the pack at 21-8, with Robins second at 20-8. Rounding out the major division standings were Moose Lodge, 14-16; Campbell Plaza,12-16; EPS, 12-16; RBI, 11-17; and TGFS, 10-19. In recent action, Murdick nailed wins over Campbell Plaza 6-3, RBI 5-4 and EPS 11-6. Jordan Groo tossed five strong innings and Kevin Guillen and Nick Linds led the bat attack for Murdick in the 5-4 win over RBI. Guillen had two hits to plate three runs in the 11-6 win over EPS, and Cannon Bernarding singled and doubled and drove in a run. Murdick jumped out to a quick lead with 10 runs in the first inning. EPS answered with six runs in the first two innings, but fell short. James McCririe went the distance on the hill, striking out six and walking just two, but was tagged with the loss despite allowing no earned run. Chase Volgenau singled, doubled and tripled to drive in four runs, and McCririe had two hits. EPS came back with a 6-4 win over TGFS. J.W. Weimer doubled and knocked in three runs in the win, and Zack Andrianos singled home a run. Kyle McDonald had two hits and scored twice, Mike Ryan singled home a run in the fifth and Casey Gallob singled and scored a run for TGFS. In minor division play, RSVP entered the final weekend of play alone in first place with a 22-7 record. Valley Athletic was second at 19-9, followed by Kiwanis at 15-13, RSJ Machining at 13-15, Woodworks at 8-20 and Butchies at 8-21. In farm play, J.E. Masonry leads the pack at 15-4, followed by TJM at 11-9, Winchester Auto at 11-9, Campbell Police at 10-10, Adam's Apple at 9-11 and the Firefighters at 3-16.

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