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Adrian Uscanga scores the third run in OMP's 12-5 victory against Hillsboro in the final Friday game.
Jul 14, 2012
By Carl Dubois
Of the News-Register
Two days in, Darren Bland likes the pace of the Oregon Mainline Paving baseball tournament at Patton Middle School.
?The games are going really fast, which to me says good baseball,? said Bland, the OMP coach. ?It?s not like there?s a bunch of walks or a whole bunch of errors because we?re getting done consistently in two hours every game, or even sooner.?
Play resumes at 10 a.m. today when OMP (17-17) plays Beaverton.
The McMinnville High School summer team, OMP, lost 4-3 to Tigard in a Friday morning game before defeating Hillsboro 12-5 in the last of four games in the day.
Kurtis Cooper, Ryan Dix and Grant Rubado each drove in two runs for OMP in the evening game. Dix and Rubado each had two hits.
An eight-run first inning set up the Mac team nicely for the victory. David Brosius pitched six innings for OMP and gave up five runs. Calvin Lane pitched a scoreless seventh inning.
In the 4-3 loss to Tigard, OMP outhit the Tigers 5-4. Nick Springer threw all seven innings for OMP and allowed four runs (one earned) on four hits. He walked three.
Bland hopes to get through the four-day tournament with minimal use of his pitching staff. A doubleheader originally scheduled for Wednesday against Hillsboro at Hare Field is now set for Monday to give some buffer between those games and the start of the state qualifier.
OMP committed three errors in its loss. Gage Gubrud was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a triple.
The Tigers scored one run in the top of the first, and OMP responded with two in the bottom of the first, getting RBIs from Gubrud and Adrian Uscanga.
Tigard took advantage of two OMP errors and a wild pitch in the top of the third inning to score two more runs to take a 3-2 lead, and the Tigers scored one more in the top of the fifth.
The 3-2 lead by Tigard was built on the strength of three unearned runs.
OMP scored one run in the bottom of the sixth inning on an RBI triple by Gubrud, scoring Uscanga.
Bland was pleased to see OMP swing the bat well against one of Tigard?s front-line pitchers.
?In the second game, we?re up 10-0 in the second inning and have runners on second and third with one out, and they had the infield in,? Bland said, ?and we hit a line drive, they step on the base and it?s a double play.?
The matchups for Sunday will be determined by the teams? records after today?s games.
There is an elaborate tiebreaker system in the case of teams tying for the same number of wins and losses. That said, Bland wants to see OMP win this morning against Beaverton and take care of business.
Beaverton is 2-0 through two days, with Tigard and OMP both 1-1 and Hillsboro 0-2 in their group, designated the red group for the tournament.
?We need to beat Beaverton,? Bland said, ?and the ideal would be Hillsboro beats Tigard.?
OMP is hoping for a shot at playing in the title game at 6:15 p.m. Sunday.
?If we beat Beaverton and Tigard beats Hillsboro, then three of us are 2-1, and then it goes by runs allowed,? Bland said. ?But we?re just trying to play our game. We?re not trying to figure out all that stuff. We just have to play our game and go from there.?
The state qualifier starts Thursday, with the state tournament scheduled to begin July 24.
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