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Republishing Compliments of
Chandler Connection, August 13, 2004

Subia Stays Unbeaten
at Baseball World Series

The pressure that came with winning back-to-back Class 5A state high school championships appears to be serving a quartet of Hamilton products well in the Connie Mack World Series.

Subia, an 18-and-under club team, has captured its first two World Series games held in Farmington, N.M., to advance to Wednesday night’s quarterfinals against the Florida Bombers, the only other undefeated team. The results were past the Chandler Connection deadline.

		Hamilton graduates C.J. Retherford, Brandon Farmer and Eric Farris plus returning senior Travis Peep have contributed to Subia’s success so far. Retherford, who played on the 2003 Huskies championship team and pitched at South Mountain Community College last spring, went 2-for-3 with a two –run homer and drove in three runs in Subia’s 14-2 victory over the South Troy (N.Y.) Dodgers on Tuesday night.
Photo by Matt Hinshaw/E. V. Tribune Hamilton High School graduate Brandon Farmer figures to help Subia at this week’s Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, N.M.

The game was called after five innings due to the eight-run rule.

Peep was 2-for4 with a double. Farris went 2-for-5 in front of a full house of 5,000 at Ricketts Park.

Complete games from Nick Walters in a 12-4 series opener against the Midland Redskins from Cincinnati, on Aug. 8, and another complete game from Mountain Pointe High School graduate Chad Whittle against the Dodgers have helped keep Farmer fresh for the rest of the series.

Subia staked Whittle to a 3-0 lead in the first inning, thanks to Desert Vista High School graduate Nolan Litke’s homer. Subia added two more run ins in the third on a hit by Desert Vista graduate Brian Dodd, and then broke the game open with four runs in the fourth inning and five in the fifth.

Whittle allowed three hits, including solo homers in the second and fourth inning, and struck out six. Subia pounded Midland with 13 hits in the series opener; Farris was 2-for-5, while Litke was 2-for-3 with a three-run homer.

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