When New York Mets leadoff man and shortstop Jose Reyes debuted in the majors in 2003 as a precocious 19-year-old and promptly finished the season with a .307 batting average, including a 17-game hitting streak, visions of the next Rickey Henderson were dancing throughout the minds in the Big Apple.However, it took the actual Rickey Henderson to make those revelations become a reality.
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When San Francisco resident and amateur wine lover Michael Brill decided to rip up his backyard in Potrero Hill in 2002 and turn it into a makeshift vineyard, he expected a little help from his friends with the project — but what he got was a community gathering of interested individuals.
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Every week throughout the regular season, the Examiner ranks all Major League Baseball teams. The Mets are on top this week with a lineup of heavy hitters that includes center fielder Carlos Beltran, who hit two home runs against the Cardinals on April 4, marking his 18th career multi-homer game.
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As a former creative director for advertising behemoth JWT Communications, Evan Peter made a name for himself as a leader in one of the industry’s most visible entities.But it was his time spent at several small startup agencies in the mid-1980s that proved to be his most valued experience — experience that ultimately led him to San Francisco-based advertising group Visual Resource, where he was recently named chief creative director.
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Heading into his scheduled start against Academic Athletic Association foe Balboa, Lowell senior pitcher Elan Lavie hadn’t exactly racked up a lot of time on the mound for the Cardinals.His exact number of innings pitched this season? One.Lavie matched that number and much, much more Thursday, pitching a complete-game five-hitter to lead Lowell to a 5-2 win over Balboa at Crocker Amazon, their second defeat of the Buccaneers in as many days.
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Just 12 days ago, the USF baseball team was coming off a heart-breaking one-run setback to defending national champ Oregon State, the final defeat of a five-game losing streak thatfeatured only 12 runs from the Dons’ anemic offense.In dire need of victories and offense, the Dons returned to Benedetti Diamond in search of answers.They found some in Luke Sommer.
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With a resurgent Balboa baseball team leading the Academic Athletic Association standings and traditional favorite Lowell showing early signsof vulnerability, Wednesday’s meeting between the two teams could have been an opportunity to showcase a changing of the guard in the league.However, the highly anticipated showdown never materialized, thanks to an opportunistic Cardinals offense and a strong performance from Lowell starter Evan Byrdon.
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As a three-sport star specializing in soccer, basketball and baseball for Stuart Hall, Kris Suzuki certainly has plenty of statistics to back up his numerous athletic endeavors. That’s why it may be forgiven if one were to mistake Suzuki’s most recent eye-popping number — .783 — as the senior’s free-throw percentage from the recently completed basketball season, when he was an All-Bay Counties League West selection.
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The San Francisco State Hall of Fame will induct eight new members Saturday in a ceremony at the Seven Hills Conference Center.Seven men and one woman will be part of the class of 2007, which will draw upon athletes that specialized in sports ranging from wrestling to swimming to basketball.Two wrestlers, Mario DeCaro (class of 1984) and John Monolakis (class of 1981), headline the list of inductees. DeCaro was a four-year letter winner at 134 pounds for the Gators, capping off his career with a selection to the All-Northern California Athletic Conference team as a senior.
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At some point, every great baseball player needs to be discovered. For Balboa catcher Nikolas Fangonilo, his moment of unearthing came in the most unlikely of places.Playing in the tucked-away confines of Crocker Amazon field in front of an estimated crowd of 20, Fangonilo made the right impression with the right person — former major-leaguer Bip Roberts.
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When Ami Arad first considered opening OnTheFly, a men’s specialty store, he looked into many marketing trends and consumer interest studies. But his main inspiration for the company may have been one fruitless day spent in downtown San Francisco."I was picking up some things for myself one day and I was all over the place looking for what I wanted," said Arad, who graduated from Cal with a degree in political science.
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It wasn’t the typical, final at-bat home run that baseball purists dramatize all the time, but Urban’s unlikely method still resulted in a well-earned win nonetheless.Urban’s Jordan Graham scored on a wild pitch thrown by Stuart Hall pitcher Ben Costa in the top of the seventh to cap off a four-run rally, giving the Blues an 8-7 victory over the Knights in both teams’ Bay Counties League West opener at Crocker Amazon Field No. 2.
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It was the scenario USF’s baseball team had dreamed of when assembling one of the nation’s the toughest nonconference schedules — having Oregon State on the ropes, leading 2-1 in the bottom of the ninth, just one strike away from beating the defending national champs.Alas, the Beavers rallied against Dons left-hander Cole Stipovich, scoring two runs with two outs to cap off a three-game sweep of USF that left coach Nino Giarratano’s squad with a disappointing 9-12 record.
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The Northern California Golden Gloves will be held for the 76th time this weekend at Kezar Pavilion, one year removed from a controversy that drove a wedge into the Bay Area boxing community.Last year, two other tournaments based in San Francisco billed themselves as Golden Gloves event, although they were not sanctioned by the official Golden Gloves organization, a nonprofit group with 31 affiliations across the country.
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In a matchup of the Academic Athletic Association top two girls’ soccer teams, Lowell sent to a reminder to the rest of the league that it is still the team to beat.Lowell scored all of its goals over a 25-minute span bridging the first and second half, keying the Cardinals on to a 4-0 winover host Washington.
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