A big day for Oswaldo Arcia.  Yorman Landa pitches well.  A pair of two-run homers carry La Guaira.

MARGARITA 5, ANZOATEGUI 2 IN MARGARITA (GAME 1--SCHEDULED 7 INNINGS)

Twins:  Eduardo Escobar (Anzoategui) was 0-for-2.

Anzoategui:  Alexi Amarista (San Diego) was 2-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.  Niuman Romero was 1-for-3 with an RBI.

Margarita:  David Peralta (Arizona) was 2-for-2 with a double and two RBIs.  Nate Tenbrink (Seattle) was 1-for-2 with a walk and two runs.  Henry Sosa struck out eight in seven innings, allowing one run on four hits and two walks.

The game:  Amarista singled in a run in the second to put Anzoategui on the board.  Margarita took the lead in the bottom of the second when Peralta doubled in one and another scored on a sacrifice fly.  Romero singled in Amarista in the fifth to tie it at two.  In the sixth, five singles produced three runs to give Margarita the lead for good.  Max Ramirez (Cincinnati) drove in the go-ahead run.

MARGARITA 3, ANZOATEGUI 2 IN MARGARITA (GAME 2--SCHEDULED 7 INNINGS)

Twins:  Eduardo Escobar (Anzoategui) was 0-for-2 with a walk and a run.

Anzoategui:  Gustavo Molina was 1-for-2 with a double and an RBI.  Jose Castillo was 1-for-3 with a double.

Margarita:  Wilmer Flores (Mets) was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs.  Nate Tenbrink (Seattle) was 1-for-2 with a walk and a double, scoring once.  Eric Berger (Houston) pitched six innings, giving up two runs on three hits and one walk with three strikeouts.

The game:  Flores doubled in Tenbrink in the second to give Margarita the early lead.  An RBI single by Flores in the fifth made it 2-0.  In the sixth, a Molina run-scoring double and an RBI ground out tied the score at two.  In the bottom of the sixth, David Peralta (Arizona) delivered an RBI single to put Margarita back up 3-2.  Anzoategui got a leadoff double in the seventh but could not advance the runner past second base.

LA GUAIRA 4, MAGALLANES 0 IN MAGALLANES

Twins:  Yorman Landa (La Guaira) pitched 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and no walks.

La Guaira:  C. J. Retherford was 2-for-4 with a two-run homer, his ninth.  Carlos Sanchez (White Sox) was 2-for-4 with a run.  Junior Guerra pitched six innings, giving up two hits and no walks with four strikeouts.

Magallanes:  Juan Rivera was 2-for-3 with a double.

The game:  Alex Cabrera hit a two-run homer in the first.  Retherford's two-run homer came in the seventh.  The best Magallanes scoring chance came in the second, when Rivera led off with a double, but he only got as far as third.

ARAGUA 13, CARACAS 6 IN CARACAS

Twins:  Oswaldo Arcia (Aragua) was 4-for-5 with a double, scoring twice and driving in three.  Dakota Watts (Aragua) pitched two-thirds of an inning, giving up one run on two hits and no walks with one strikeout.

Aragua:  Hector Gimenez was 2-for-3 with two walks and a home run (his fourteenth), scoring once and driving in three.  Wilson Ramos (Washington) was 2-for-4 with a double, scoring twice and driving in two.  Harvey Garcia struck out three in two shutout innings, giving up one hit and one walk.

Caracas:  Alex Gonzalez was 3-for-5 with a double and a triple, driving in two.  Gerardo Parra (Arizona) was 2-for-6 with two doubles and an RBI.  Bobby Abreu was 2-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in two.

The game:  Gimenez hit a two-run homer as part of a four-run first for Aragua.  In the second, Gonzalez capped a three-run inning with a two-run double to make it 4-3.  An RBI single by Ramos and a run-scoring wild pitch put Aragua ahead 6-3 in the top of the third, but Caracas got one back in the bottom of the third on Abreu's RBI single.  After that, however, Aragua took control.  They scored two in the fifth and four in the sixth and never looked back.  Arcia had a two-run single in the four-run sixth.

LARA 12, ZULIA 5 IN LARA

Zulia:  Jose Pirela (Yankees) was 3-for-5 with two doubles, scoring once and driving in two.  J. C. Linares was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs.  Sandy Leon (Washington) was 1-for-2 with two walks and a double, scoring once.

Lara:  Paulo Orlando (Kansas City) was 2-for-4 with a walk and a two-run homer, his third.  Anderson De La Rosa was 2-for-4 with a three-run homer, his second.  Lino Urdaneta pitched 2.2 scoreless innings, allowing two hits and no walks with two strikeouts.

The game:  Pirela doubled in one in the first and another in the third.  Linares had a two-run double, also in the third, that put Zulia ahead 4-0.  It was all Lara after that.  De La Rosa's three-run homer was part of a six-run fourth that put Lara in front.  They followed that up with a four-run fifth that included a two-run single by Jairo Perez.  Zulia did not get back into the game after that.