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VENEZUELAN WINTER LEAGUE

STANDINGS

Anzoategui, 11-4
Magallanes, 9-6
Zulia, 6-8
Aragua, 6-8
La Guaira, 4-10

Anzoategui beat Magallanes last night 16-5 to clinch the league championship.  Felix Perez (Cincinnati) was 3-for-4 with two home runs and a double.  Each team plays sixteen games in the round-robin playoff.

MEXICAN PACIFIC LEAGUE

The league championship series between Culiacan and Jalisco starts tonight.

DOMINICAN WINTER LEAGUE

CIBAO 5, ORIENTE 3 IN CIBAO

Oriente:  Audy Ciriaco (Cleveland) was 2-for-3 with a home run and a walk.  Lew Ford was 1-for-2 with a home run.  Randy Boone struck out four in 2.2 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and one walk.

Cibao:  Mel Rojas, Jr. (Pittsburgh) was 1-for-3 with a two-run homer and two runs.  Wilson Betemit was 1-for-3 with a home run and two RBIs.  Mario Santiago pitched 5.2 innings, allowing an unearned run on four hits and two walks with four strikeouts.

The game:  Rojas hit a two-run homer in the third to put Cibao up 2-1, Betemit homered in the fourth to make it 3-1, and a run was walked in in the fifth to make it 4-1.  Oriente did not get the tying run up to bat.

Series status:  The best-of-nine series is tied at two games apiece.

PUERTO RICAN LEAGUE

MAYAGUEZ 8, SANTURCE 2 IN MAYAGUEZ

Santurce:  Ruben Sosa (Houston) was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.  Reymond Fuentes (Kansas City) was 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, scoring once.  Ricardo Gomez pitched a perfect inning with one strikeout.

Mayaguez:  Ozzie Martinez (Baltimore) was 3-for-5 with a double and two runs.  Luis Figueroa was 2-for-5 with a double, scoring once and driving in two.  Zack Segovia struck out seven in six shutout innings, allowing two hits and two walks.

The game:  Mayaguez scored seven in the second and the game was never close again.  Mayaguez batted thirteen in the inning, which featured a two-run homer by Daniel Ortiz (Minnesota) and a two-run double by Figueroa.

Series status:  Mayaguez takes a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.