1. It’s an excuse for a party

Not that you need an excuse for their friends, but planning a big party to watch a game can be great. Grill while the weather remains pleasant or a couple of pizzas, then sit back and cheer on your favorite team with your friends. Or grab your friends and head to a local restaurant. Many places have special offers for games and you do not have to do the cleaning. And for those of you who have friends that like the other team … up the ante and have a good time! A little competition never killed anyone.

2. Tailgating

Need I say more? What better way to spend the afternoon tailgating after a game? Take the refrigerator, food and the tailgate and pull your head to your favorite stadium to watch a game.

3. Makes a great date
Let’s face it ladies, there are not many men out there who do not like football. So grab your boyfriend, husband or best friend man, and head to a game. Go to a party at a local high school Friday night or plan a trip to see an NFL game. No matter where you go, you will have a good time cheering on the team and the quality time spending with your child. Besides, the man will thank you.

4. If you’re a girl, knowing something about football will make you look cool
And even if you are a man, knowing what is happening in football is important. At this time of year is a key issue in all social functions, so that boys and girls, you need to know a little something! I will not be the only work Monday morning, who missed the game of the year.

5. You might see the next football star

High school and college football are highly competitive and produce some great talent. Check out your local high school to see if teams are playing conference or visit your local college and get a schedule. You never know, you could be seeing the future Super Bowl MVP.

But as this never-really-that fits in the season the Cubs in July, which are closer to get a piece of club history as the ignominious capture, for example, the Cincinnati Reds fourth, let alone reach 0500.

In fact, the Tuesday doubleheader against the San Francisco

Giants at Wrigley Field presented an overview of a day in the biggest failure of the Cubs this season and nearly impossible that he forged. With a loss of 13-7 in the first game, the Cubs said

to reach half of the season – 81 games now – without even a sequence of three consecutive victories, becoming the third team of the Cubs in more than 130 year history of the franchise to manage this and the first since 1966 .

”If he had said earlier that we would go far in this season without winning three [next] games, I do not think anyone would have thought it would be a reality,”the veteran outfielder Reed Johnson said.

Not even the most pessimistic Cubs Basher could have predicted such a rarity.

In fact, the Cubs defeated ’6 -3 in the second game Tuesday night, only the fourth team to get Cubs on July 1 without a three-game tube and the first since 1974, when Bill Bonham led the league with 22 losses and Steve Stone has joined the Cubs, Ron Santo trade.

It”’was hard,”Johnson said. ”But, of course, is hard to get something going early in the season when Randy [Wells] and [Andrew] Cashner were both away, and you must add [Casey] Coleman, and [reliever James] Russell, whose hand is not was’ not ready to be laid. Once you have those wounds that the key staff as pitching, it’s really difficult to sustain any winning streak.”

Case in point: Game 1 on Tuesday when the veteran Doug Davis – signed in April to offset the loss of depth – is beaten by one of the worst lineups in the majors one day, his team scored seven points.

”I really do not have excuses,”said Davis, who dropped to 1-7. They pitchable”team. I think there are holes in all the swings. If you can not play, you can have success against this team.”

But the season, the season crippling problem on the back of the rotation goes far beyond what the pot on that day.

”We have not done a good job of 4 or 5 place with security,”said manager Mike Quade.

As Rodrigo Lopez took the mound for Game 2, the sixth de”starter Cubs,”the six pitchers to fill the 5.4 points this season were a combined 4-18 with an ERA of 6.98. 8.23 In The Cubs are 31 games.

And look no further than the lack of game three tubes.

If the baseball adage is true about the value as a team keeping a losing streak, while the opposite seems to follow: lack of depth of quality starting to keep a team of winning streaks.

Especially when the first three of Ryan Dempster (5-6, 5.31 ERA), Carlos Zambrano (6-4, 4.38) and Matt Garza (4-6, 4.07) had their own problems this season, too.

Overall, the Cubs had the worst ERA in the rotation from the major leagues since April, and the effectiveness of the pitchers all fell last month and is still now.

”It ‘so hard when you have injuries,”Johnson said. ”But it’s a hand, we have discussed, and we must find a way to work.”

In the meantime, if there is something to look forward, history says you can count on a winning streak in progress. The Cubs have never gone a season without.

In fact, they waited until June 20

the first in 1943, then reeled off 11 more than the season – even if they are willing to lose the record.

”I hope so,”Johnson said. ”With the wounds of division in general. . . If there is any place we have the opportunity to look back, that’s all.”

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Otherwise, narrative of his high school glorification day will surely be met with skepticism of extreme exaggeration.
Grogan concluded a dream hebdomad Friday by leading the No. 3 Tigers to their first-ever 2A/1A ball championship with a 3-1 win over No. 1 Portland Christian at Volcanoes Stadium.

If ever there was an one-man success performance in baseball, this was it. Grogan struck unwrapped 14 batters while allowing five hits maiden seven innings to earn the win. At the plate, he provided all of his run sponsor by going 3 of 3 with two home runs and three RBI.

The act came a few days after Grogan LED the Tigers (24-5) to a 25-8 semifinals victory over Union/Cove Tuesday in which Grogan went 6 of 6 with three home runs while earning the win on the mound.

“Anytime you have a pitcher WHO shuts a team feather with a lot of strikeout and then hits a couple of home runs at the plate, that’s a dominating performance,” Stanfield/Echo manager Bryan Johnson said.

“I’m just gladiolus I did it for my squad,” Grogan said.
Leading the Royals (25-4) at the baffle was hurler John Church WHO went 2 of 4 and scored his squad’s lone tally. That occured in the former frame on a RBI bingle by infielder Connor Oien to brand the mark 1-.

The early Pb spoke volumes saw Portland Christian had allowed just seven runs in 3 previous playoff games and Church was sporting a 1.81 ERA.Church pitched well Friday, allowing just seven hits on the day. But the two big ones to Grogan stung.

The former came in the top of the fourth inning when Grogan connected for a two-run home trot scoring shortstop Trey Blevins to make the hit 2-1.
Grogan got into a couple of jam on the mound against the Royals loaded card but always managed to use his heater and line ball to wash his manner free.

Then in the sixth frame he added an exclaiming grade to his hebdomad.
Grogan stated Church had been delivering him first-delivery line ball all tomorrow so he sat line baseball on the first delivery and got what he was looking for. The fly to leaved yard made the mark 3-1, Tigers.

“He tripped the discourtesy for us, and the defence,” backstop Derek Monkus said.
Portland Christian had no answer and an inning later the Tigers had their first baseball Soviets championship.

“Going into this we knew that Stanfield had never won a state rubric before so we wanted to make history,” Grogan said.
“It’s huge,” Johnson aforesaid. “It’s a little spot monumental.”

Single. Bunt. Infield safety. Bunt. Then…bam!
Senior access fielder Spencer Vroman hit a two-RBI two-bagger to highlight a four-run inning that the Hawks would build upon to win 7-2, capturing their first state ball championship.

“We don’t really have a main guy,” Vroman said. “We all, 1 through nine, can hit. Some people are small baseball, some people are the big hitters…It equitable happened to be me this time.”

The Hawks strung jointly 11 hit of largely little baseball and held the Tigers to four hit in presence of 1,406 in attending. Vroman travelled 2 of 4 and scored a trot to go along with his two RBI.

Sophomore starting hurler Willie Brucker hit away six over seven inning to gain the romp for the Hawks (27-3).
The Tigers (23-4) were led by hurler/third baseman Michael Bennett who played an activity home trot but couldn’t get his fourth contest romp.
The rubric for the Hawks comes on the heel of the hoops squad winning its second sequent Soviets championship. Not big for an academy sixty boy. Senior infielder Shane Monahan is the merely participant on both team.

“We’re competing with team with three or four hundred child in them,” he said. “We’re competing with our heart level section our skill level and that makes us champions.”

Horizon Christian manager Alex Esquerra stated Friday’s contest was distinctive for his squad.
“We stated them championship game, sometimes they are not won, something happens and then you act the impulse and you trot with it,” he said.
That impulse came in the third. Sophomore one-third baseman Zach Selland, attempt eighth, singled and later advanced to second on a wild pitch. Freshman designated hitter Kyle Esquerra got on with a bunt bingle.

Monahan’s diamond bingle scored Selland from third and advanced Esquerra to second. That led to a bunt bingle from Brucker, load the bases.
Then came Vroman’s two-bagger to center yard to score Esquerra and Monahan, devising the score 3-.

Senior backstop Jordan Pearson’s RBI forfeit housefly to centre marking Brucker from one-third made the mark 4-.
Bennett safety a housed run for the Tigers in the fourth inning to brand the hit 4-1 and they added a trotted in the fifth.

But Horizon Christian answered with two runs in the fifth and one in the sixth to provide plenty of shock for Brucker to Pb the group to IT 25th consecutive win.

“The unit team equitable pulled jointly,” Brucker said. ‘God really blessed us with the romped.”
Esquerra expressed plenty of regard for Bennett, WHO won 3 playoff games to completed with a 14-1 enter.
“The guys is amazing,” Esquerra said. “I think that if Bennett didn’t throw the other three games he would have been a different cat here today.”

The rank was the clincher, a three-run shoot by Sam Johnson in the top of the seventh, as the Wildcats wiped unwrapped a five-run deficit to beat Central Catholic 9-6 in the OSAA Class 6A Soviets championship contest at Volcanoes Stadium.

The University of Oregon-bound Johnson, ineffective as Westview’s start pitcher, made up for it at the plate with two home runs and four RBI. Carson Kelly and Ryan Susnow safety two-run shots for Westview, and Tate Glasgow added a solo place run.

“I knew our team could hit five bombs in a game. We just hadn’t Lashkar-e-Taiba it go in a game,” Johnson said.
The unsung Arminius in Westview’s powerfulness show was Phil Belding, who relieved Johnson after the third inning. Belding took the aerated out of a Central Catholic attack that literature up Johnson for five runs, as he held the Rams to a single run and four hits during 4 innings of alleviation.

“I figured if we could shut them popped and get the confidence out of them, we’ve got a happened,” Belding said.
Both schooled were aiming for their first state baseball title. Central Catholic (25-7) couldn’t have got off to a best start, but the complete was something else for Westview (27-5).

Central stunned Westview during the former inning when Jimmy Brakebush and Phil Bluhm hit consecutive double to give the Rams a 2- Pb. It ended Westview’s 26-frame contest skunk streak.

But Central Catholic continued to impressment, marking 3 run during the one-third frame, the big backhander a tally-marking three-bagger by Lucas Hunter.

“We were shocked,” said Brakebush about the Rams’ 5- lead over the team most coach in the Soviets proclaimed as the 6A favourite headed into the period.

When Johnson returned to the shelter at the end of the third inning, Wildcats coach Steve Antich decided to go to Belding. Johnson admitted he didn’t have it as a hurler, but was determined to brand an impact with his bat.

Johnson wasted no clip. As the leadoff hitter in the fourth, Johnson blasted a solo homer to leaved field, slip Central’s taken to 5-1.

“It wasn’t much, but I wanted to do whatever I could to help the team,” Johnson said.
Then in the top of the rank, it was Glasgow, who led off the inning with a flew homer to finale the gap to 5-2. The Wildcats weren’t finished in the rank, as Kelly established a two-run homer to leaved, pulling Westview to within 5-4.

Brakebush said all three home tally pitch, included two curveballs, were up in the strike island, perfect for a power action.
Central Catholic responded with a tally in its half of the fifth when Luke Vanoudenhaegen singled in Codi Scanlon to addition the Rams’ Pb to 6-4. But it was short-lived, as Westview tied the crippled at 6-6 in the rank on Susnow’s two-run blast.

The phase was put for Johnson in the seventh, when Belding doubled and Kelly was intentionally walked. Johnson crushed Scanlon’s pitch over the leaved-yard fencing, gift Westview its first and only lead of the game at 9-6.

“I was thinking line thrust up the middle, but when I hit it, it felt really good came off the bat,” Johnson aforesaid.

The deficit was too much for Central Catholic to overcome in the seventh, and Westview had its state championship.

“It proves he’s the attempt,” Belding said of Johnson. “If he has a bad day on the hill, he wants to win so badness, he’ll support fighting no matter what.”

KEIZER – When Dave Gasser retired as Astoria ball manager finale June, he left as the winningest ball manager in Oregon high school past.

What Gasser position behind was a program that could fend for itself. The Fishermen proved as much Saturday when they beat North Valley of Grants Pass 4-1 to win the OSAA Class 4A Soviets championship at Volcanoes Stadium.

Astoria (24-2) won its third state rubric in six years with a decisive 5th inning and the three-hit flipped of junior Conor Harber. The Fishermen broke unbarred a 1-1 game in the fifth when three North Valley (17-13) errors LED to a three-run inning.

“No way we weren’t departure to do well this season,” Harber said. “He leaved too many good skill players behind.”

That list of accomplishment player start with Harber, WHO wins three Soviets playoff backed after departure 9- during the Cowapa League period. Harber closed putout North Valley by scene feather the match 7 hitters, the finale 4 by whiff.

“You tin’t opportunity sufficiency about what Conor did present. He’s been our stone all twelvemonth,” said Astoria former baseman Jacob Davis, WHO had a two-bagger and scored 2 run.

Rock or not, Astoria had problem separating itself from North Valley, just as the heavily-favored Fishermen did in finale year’s 4A match, where they doomed to Scappoose 2-1 in 8 inning.

Astoria jumped to a 1- Pb in the first inning when Marc Gallegos’ single scored Davis. But North Valley, which shook off a fourth-place finish in the Skyline Conference to make its first title game since 1985, pulled even during the third inning when Joel Shippy’s sacrifice housefly scored John Parker.

Were thoughts of 2010 starting to weirdo into the Astoria dugout with the game tied 1-1 in the underside of the fifth inning?

“A little bit,” Harber said. “In the back of my head, I was just thinking get one run.”

Three was yet better, after Fishermen compound 2 hit with three North Valley errors for a 4-1 lead. Astoria took a 2-1 lead on a duplicate by Taylor Fox that scored Dillon Smith, who reached base on an error. Fox then scored on a 2-base error on a ball played by Davis, who later place on Ryan Johnson’s sacrifice fly.

North Valley coach Eric Werner said the fifth-frame mistake were uncharacteristic of the Knights’ defense during their contest run.
“Their squad made us play,” Werner state.

Harber finished the backed by hit putout the pulled during the seventh, then spiking his mitt on the hill to celebrate the title.

“He definitely was the difference in the contest,” Werner said. “Take him out of the game and it would have been a different outcome.”

Creighton (45-14) will play tomorrow night at 8 pm Central (6 pm Pacific) against the winner of tonight’s Arkansas-Little Rock – Oregon State game in a winners bracket contest of the double-elimination Regional. Georgia (31-31) will play tomorrow at 3 pm in an elimination game against the UALR/OSU loser.

Dufek was brilliant, scattering 5 hits and contact out 10 men while improving to 12-1 this year. He lowered his ERA to a MVC-best 2.08 in the process.

Creighton’s former imaginary scoring accidental didn’t semen until the sixth inning. Mike Gerber singled with one out and raced to third when a throw from Georgia catcher Brandon Stephens airmailed first baseman Jonathan Hester. Creighton could not capitalize though, as Ross struck out swung and Judkins flied putout to secondly base.

Georgia scored the backed’s former tally in the top of the seventh. With one out Chase Davidson legged out infield single, then came about to score when Jonathan Hester put a rush into a -2 Dufek offering and doubled maiden Gerber’s caput in centre. Dufek pitched putout of problem after that, not allowing another baserunner the remainder of the tomorrow.

Jimmy Swift and Trever Adams had dorsum-to-dorsum singles to position-centre to start the seventh, then moved into marking place on an Alex Staehely forfeit bunt. Scott Thornburg went the antonym manner,dropping a single in presence of rightfielder Peter Verdin to mark Swift and demarche Adams to one-third alkali. Adams scored the go-ahead tally on Bemboom’s sharp bingle to centre. Palazzone got the next 2 workforce on diamond popouts to flight further harm.

Dufek retired the finale 8 workforce he faced, including 2 strikeout in the ninth frame. It was his sec complete contest of the period, and former since a 1- whitewash of Valparaiso on March 19th in a game that took just 85 minutes.Saturday’s contest tin be heard on KOZN (1620 AM) and will also be video streamed at HTTP://www.espn3.com.

NOTES: Ed Servais became the former Creighton coach to lead 3 teams to the NCAA Tournament … Today was the 4-year aniversary of Creighton’s finale NCAA Tournament triumph, 21-11, over Albany, in Fayetteville, Ark. … Jonas Dufek struck putout Levi Hyams to began the rank frame. It was his 123rd whiff of the year, moving him past Alan Benes (in 1993) for sec-most in Creighton history for one season … Trever Adams reached base for the 43rd heterosexual game with a single in the 7th frame … This was the first-ever meeting between Georgia and Creighton … Jonas Dufek is just the second Creighton pitcher to bowling a complete game in the postseason, and first since Mike Heathcott vs. Clemson on June 1, 1991 in the programme’s College World Series debut. Heathcott also threw a complete game to win the former contest the grouped played in the 1991 Regionals against Pepperdine … Creighton improved to 19-6 in one-tally game this period … Ed Servais now owns 299 career wins … Among those in attending were former Bluejay baseball players Joe Servais and Scott Reese … Creighton is present 5-2 all-clip in Regionals hosted by

CREIGHTON 2, GEORGIA 1
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Jonas Dufek outdueled Michael Palazzone and No. 25 Creighton scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh to claim a 2-1 victory maiden Georgia to open play at the Corvallis Regional on Friday afternoon.

Creighton (45-14) will play tomorrow night at 8 pm CST against the winner of tonight’s Arkanas-Little Rock – Oregon State game in a winners bracket contest of the double-elimination Regional. Georgia (31-31) will play tomorrow at 3 pm in an elimination game.

Dufek was brilliant, scattering 5 hits and contact out 10 men while improving to 12-1 this year.

Creighton’s former imaginary scoring accidental didn’t semen until the sixth inning. Mike Gerber singled with one out and raced to third when a throw from Georgia catcher Brandon Stephens airmailed first baseman Jonathan Hester. Creighton could not capitalize though, as Ross struck out swung and Judkins flied putout to secondly base.

Georgia scored the backed’s former tally in the top of the seventh. With one out Chase Davidson legged out infield single, then came about to score when Jonathan Hester put a rush into a -2 Dufek offering and doubled maiden Gerber’s caput in centre.

Jimmy Swift and Trever Adams had dorsum-to-dorsum singles to position-centre to start the seventh, then moved into marking place on an Alex Staehely forfeit bunt. Scott Thornburg went the antonym manner, dropping a bingle in presence of rightfielder Peter Verdin to mark Swift and demarche Adams to one-third alkali. Adams scored the go-ahead tally on Bemboom’s sharp bingle to centre. Palazzone got the next 2 workforce on diamond popouts to flight further harm.

Dufek retired the finale 8 workforce he faced, including 2 strikeout in the ninth frame.

NOTES: Ed Servais became the former Creighton manager to Pb 3 team to the NCAA Tournament … Today was the 4-twelvemonth birthday of Creighton’s finale NCAA Tournament triumph, 21-11, maiden Albany, in Fayetteville, Ark. … Jonas Dufek struck putout Levi Hyams to adrenarche the rank frame. It was his 123rd whiff of the twelvemonth, moving him yesteryear Alan Benes (in 1993) for sec-most in Creighton past for 1 period … Trever Adams reached alkali for the 43rd heterosexual contest with a bingle in the seventh frame … This was the former-ever gathering between Georgia and Creighton.

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Sam Gaviglio showed why he was a first-team all-Pacific 10 Conference selection, as he baffled Creighton hitters all night in a 5-1 Oregon State victory on Saturday night. The victory support No. 13 Oregon State (40-17) unbeaten as it moves into tomorrow night’s Regional final, while No. 25 Creighton (45-15) will have to play a 3 pm Central elimination contest vs. Georgia (32-31) for the right to take on OSU at 8 pm.

Gaviglio (12-2) allowed just five hits and 2 walk (both intentional) while dramatic out 11 in his 136 pitch complete contest. Most importantly, he worked out of a two-on, no-out jam in the top of the seventh when he got Anthony Bemboom to land out, Scott Thornburg to strike out, and after an intentional walk to Mike Gerber, coaxed a weak groundout to former off that bat of Chance Ross, and another jam in the eighth inning.

Oregon State scored an unearned run in the top of the first inning against Bluejay starter Ty Blach. Ryan Barnes’ line thrust to clear the crippled tipped off the top of a leaping Alex Staehely’s mitt, and Barnes went to backed when rightfielder Trever Adams misplayed the deflection. Barnes moved to third on a ground out and scored on a two-out passed ball that got through catcher Scott Thornburg.

The Beavers added to their lead in the top of the second inning. Carter Bell singled and travelled to third on a hit-and-trotted single by Garrett Nash. Bell scored when Creighton couldn’t Marrano a duplicate-play on a high-chopper by Barnes.

Creighton dented the scoreboard in the bottom of the fifth when Mike Gerber turned around a fastball and deposited Sam Gaviglio’s offer into the bleachers in access-center for his seventh homer of the season. The safety by Creighton snapped a streak of 12 straight outs by the Bluejay line-up.

Oregon State answered with a run in the top of the sixth inning. Parker Berberet doubled to leaved-center, travelled to third on a passed ball, and scored when Carter Bell poked a hit between Alex Staehley and Nick Judkins, who were drawn in to cut off the run at house. It was OSU’s sec unearned run of the day against Blach.

In add-on to Creighton’s menace in the seventh, the Jays also brought the tied run to the plate in the eighth inning. Nick Judkins had an one-out double, but Gaviglio retired Jimmy Swift on strikes and Trever Adams grounded out to firstly as the junior received a stood ovation from the partisan crowd.

OSU added 2 insurance runs in the top of the ninth inning when Garrett Nash crushed his third homer of the season over the left-field palisaded, termination VanLeur’s eve. After Kurt Spomer came in, Kavin Keyes singled up the middle and scored on Andrew Susac’s two-bagger in the right-center gap.

Blach (10-3) flirted with danger all tomorrow long, allowing 7 hits and 3 runs (one earned) in six innings of wash. He struck out seven men, walked 1, and hit a coupled in 107 pitches. He gave way to Reese McGraw, VanLeur and Spomer.

NOTES: This was just the thirdly meeting between Creighton and Oregon State, with the first two taking place in 1996 in Fresno, Calif. … This was the first run allowed by Ty Blach in the former inning since May 6, 2011, and the first allowed by Creighton in the first inning of any contest since May 8, 2011 vs. Wichita State … The Beavers put the lead-off runner on in the former two innings, both of which scored runs.  In the opener against Georgia, the Jays only allowed the lead-off batter to get on once, in the fourth inning, but stranded the runner on a hit out and ground out to the left bedside … Creighton had committed just 4 mistake in their endured 10 games, departure 9-1 over that slack.  In the game on Saturday nighttime, Creighton’s first frame error led to the former run of the backed … Mike Gerber’s house run was Creighton’s first ammunition-user since Michael Mutcheson homered vs. Bradley on May 25th in Creighton’s first MVC Tournament game … Scott Thornburg’s 2 passed ball tied a Creighton postseason evidence for one backed, and matched his season sum entrance the contest … Georgia eliminated Arkansas-Little Rock (24-34), 7-3, in the first game on Saturday in Corvallis … Ty Blach recorded at matter 7 strikeout for the seventh clip in 18 start … The safety by Garrett Nash was the former allowed by Creighton playing since May 6th, when Tyler Grimes from Wichita State homered. Creighton had thrown 165.2 inning, spanning 598 at-bat and 692 baffle appearance in between homers surrendered … Creighton will expression to extra IT MVC Tournament rubric tally, where it won IT former contest, doomed IT sec contest, and won 4 statesman game through the loser’s bracket to return the rubric … Ed Servais was denied in his former attempt for his 300th triumph as caput manager at Creighton … The tally allowed by Kurt Spomer in the ninth was the former against the Bluejay person since May 7th.