Cabrillo's Duffy wins KC Royals award

The Kansas City Royals announced their minor league pitchers and players of the year from their minor league affiliates and Cabrillo High School grad Danny Duffy was named pitcher of the year for the Single-A Burlington Bees.

The 19-year old left-handed pitcher had an outstanding year in Burlington after staying in Arizona for extended spring training.

Duffy was 8-4 with a 2.20 ERA in 17 starts for the Bees, who won the second half of the Midwest League, Western Division. He had 102 strikeouts in 81.2 innings with only 25 walks.

In his last 11 starts Duffy has gone 6-1 with a .99 ERA. Duffy pitched the first six innings of a combined no-hitter on Aug. 7 against Peoria.

Burlington won the second half with a 43-26 record, three-and-a-half games ahead of second place Cedar Rapids. They were 73-65 overall. The playoffs will begin this evening as the Bees host the Kane County Cougars.

All 16 players picked from the eight minor league squads in the Royals organization will be introduced at Future's Night on Friday, Sept. 19 at Kaufman Stadium during an on-field presentation before the Royals-White Sox game.

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Cabrillo's Taua has great soph debut

The University of Nevada Wolfpack opened the 2008 football season with a 49-13 victory over Grambling State in Reno.

Cabrillo graduate and Nevada sophomore Via Taua led the team in rushing with 103 on 12 carries and two touchdowns.

Taua scored on a one-yard plunge in the second quarter and scored again in the second half with a 4-yard run. Also in the second quarter, Taua broke free for a 62-yard run, the longest in his career.

It was the first season opening win for the Wolfpack since 2003. In the game, Nevada ran up 629 yards in total offense, over 400 yards rushing.

The Wolfpack next host Texas Tech on Saturday.

Righetti/PVHS game kicks off SMT-TV

The Santa Maria Times and Lee Central Coast Newspapers High School Football Game of the Week makes its television debut Friday night at www.santamariatimes.com.

The Righetti/Pioneer Valley game will be broadcast live on the Internet with the pre-game show getting underway at 7 p.m. and kickoff set for 7:30.

The game will also be simulcast on local radio on KRTO-FM 97.1.

To access the program, just log on to the Times' web site at www.santamariatimes.com and click on the link to the live webcast.

The Times will webcast a different game every Friday night throughout the high school football regular season and playoffs.

Friday Football Scoreboard on line

The high school football season gets underway on Friday night.

There are seven Week Zero games on the schedule - Righetti at Pioneer Valley, Nipomo at Lompoc, Carpinteria at Santa Ynez, Bishop Diego at Arroyo Grande, Atascadero at Clovis, Immanuel at Morro Bay and Templeton at Taft.

An eighth game, Wrstlake at Paso Robles will be played Saturday night.

Once again, you won't have to wait until Friday night's 11 o'clock TV news to find out how your favorite high school football team fared.

The Friday Football Scoreboard will be up and running on the Santa Maria Times Web site - www.santamariatimes.com.

After logging on to the site, go to the “Local Sports” section and just click on “Friday Football Scoreboard” to get the latest scores from all the Central Coast high school games.

Scores are updated at the end of each quarter with final scores posted by 10:45 p.m.

It's all back online starting Friday night.

September 04, 2008