CINCINNATI SPORTS LAST WEEK

On Labor Day, the Reds played an afternoon game in GABP against New York. The Mets sent out Pedro Martinez for his first start of the year and Cincinnati pitched their ace, Aaron Harang. The Reds got bounced 10-4 and are officially, bounced out of contention. On Tuesday, the Reds sent out Matt Belisle and he was helped by a Brandon Phillips home run but not by the bull pen. They lost their fifth straight, 11-7. On Wednesday afternoon, Phillips hit another homer; setting the franchise record for a second baseman at 28 for the year. Tom Shearn, our 30 year old rookie, got the third start of his career and Joey Votto finally got to the majors and made his first start. Shearn pitched threw six shutout innings allowing only 3 singles and Votto went 3 for 3 including a homer and a walk as the Reds won 7-0.


On Thursday night, the UC Bearcats football team made it to prime time on ESPN with a match-up against the Oregon State Beavers of the PAC-10. About 25,000 went to Nippert Stadium and saw the locals struggle on offense but completely dominate their big-time foe on defense and special teams. The Cats won 34-3 in a major win for the program and a big boost for the Big East Conference.

On Friday night, Bronson Arroyo got the offense that he so often lacks and beat the Milwaukee Brewers in a laugher, 11-4. Josh Hamilton went 4 for 5 including his 19th home run and Ken Griffey Jr hit the 593 round tripper of his career.

In high school football, Hamilton lost to Anderson; Fenwick was shut out by Talawanda; Wilmington got blasted 50-9 by Tippacanoe.


On Saturday night, Aaron Harang pitched another good game and left after seven inning with a 3-2 lead. The three runs were compliments of Joey Votto's 3-run homer - his second in two starts. All that said, the bull pen gave up two late runs and the Reds went down 4-3. On Sunday afternoon, Phil Dumatrait (0-3) got the start against Ben Sheets (11-4) of the Brew Crew. It turned into somewhat of a slug fest and the Reds got out slugged 10-5. If you acan believe it, Dumatrait faced five batters, threw only 12 pitches, gave up four runs including home runs to the first three batters. Cincinnati's Edwin Encarnacion hit his 12th homer of the year. The Reds finished the week at 64-79; 9.5 games behind the Brewers in fourth place in their division.