Tonight's GBL South Division playoff matchup opens up with the two Southern California rivals that revamped themselves a bit in the offseason. The Orange County Flyers took out most of the sheer power in their lineup and installed what I would classify as more dynamic power. In Long Beach, the pace-filled lineup that carried the Armada to last season's GBL championship series was replaced with something much more subtle but just as opportunistic. A look at how both hitting lineups regrouped:
2007/2008 (Batting Avg)
ORANGE COUNTY
Bacani (.320)/Okano (.271)
LeVier (.261)/Bacani (.369)
Pohle (.338)/Acey (.374)
Williams (.344)/Breen (.396)
Goodman (.259)/LaRue (.302)
Okano (.263)/Arhart (.325)
Morales (.310)Rios (.337)
Templeton (.279)/Mayorga (.202)
Thomas (.289)/Van Houten (.305)
LONG BEACH
Kaplan (.320)/Williams (.265)
Klemm (.270)/Bramasco (.333)
Martinez (.298)/Moss (.299)
Wakeland (.294)/Lehr (.336)
Trumble (.263)/Hutchins (.301)
Mayorga (.239)/Flowers (.309)
Gross (.257)/Trumble (.228)
Ramirez (.273)/Ramirez (.249)
Araiza (.289)/Davidson (.258)
About Me: Patrick Kinmartin has been a sports writer at the Chico Enterprise-Record since graduating from the University of Southern California in 2005. He began covering the Outlaws and the Golden Baseball League upon arriving and took over the beat full-time in 2007.
A north Orange County native notoriously fond of his hometown Fullerton, Kinmartin also has an occupational obsession with European football, which he chronicles on the Web radio site 101 Soccer Live.
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