JetHawks Go Down to a 5-1 Defeat

By STEVE HENSON

April 10, 1998 12 AM PT

Lancaster fell to Rancho Cucamonga, 5-1, on Thursday night at Rancho Cucamonga. The JetHawks are 3-5.

In Wednesday night’s game, High Desert outlasted Lancaster in a 14-inning game, 4-3. Kyle Kennison (1-1) yielded a sacrifice fly to Kevin Clark that scored Juan Garcia with the game-winner.

AROUND THE LEAGUES

Jacob Cruz (Channel Islands High) hoped to begin the season somewhat north of Fresno, on the San Francisco Giants’ roster. But after a poor spring, the right fielder was sent to the Giants’ Pacific Coast League triple-A team, which moved from Phoenix to Fresno. Not that he has anything to prove in the minors. Cruz, 25, batted .361 with 45 doubles, 12 home runs, 95 runs batted in and 18 stolen bases at Phoenix last season. But in 102 major league games, he is batting .216 with three home runs. Cruz went two for seven in his first two games for Fresno.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a breaking news and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2023 and in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club. He has been honored several times by APSE — most recently in 2023 and 2021 — and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

JetHawks Go Down to a 5-1 Defeat

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