Lakers advance to quarters

By Matthew Sherman

The Lake Oswego Review, May 28, 2009, Updated Oct 30, 2009

Lake Oswego’s Jeff Kremer celebrates after scoring the game’s first run in the third inning of an 8-3 victory over North Salem on Tuesday. The Lakers moved on to play Sheldon in the quarterfinals.

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Lake Oswego’s baseball team took care of business plain and simple on Tuesday against North Salem.

It wasn’t a flawless effort by the Lakers but it was more than enough as the team earned an 8-3 decision and advanced to the quarterfinals.

Tom Zarosinski kept North Salem off balanced for the majority of the game and threw a complete game on 103 pitches to earn the win.

The Laker bats took a couple of innings to heat up but the team scored in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth inning to jump out to a commanding 7-0 lead.

Zarosinski pitched out of trouble in the top of the first inning. With a runner on second and one out he tallied a strike out and then, with runners on the corners, he coaxed a ground out to keep North Salem off the board.

Right-fielder Brian Zinsmeister made a pair of nice catches in the top of the second to thwart North Salem in the second inning and the Lakers broke through in the bottom of the third.

Jeff Kremer drew a one-out walk and moved to second on the first of what would be four balk calls in the game.

A walk to Joe Clark set up an RBI double from Nick Rulli to put the Lakers on the board. Zinsmeister followed with a two-out walk and Tyler Campbell then belted a two-run single.

“Tyler had a big day for us. Once we settled in we started putting the ball in play,” Laker coach Jake Anders said.

Lake Oswego scored once more in the fourth when Chad Kjemhus hit an RBI infield single that scored Hayden Reece.

And, in the bottom of the fifth, the Lakers blew the game open with another three-run inning.

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