Lancaster made sure it would stay on life support for yet another day with a 5-1 victory over the Stampede before 2,712 fans at Lancaster Municipal Stadium. We're going to keep playing until they tell us we're eliminated. The JetHawks moved to within eight games of the South Divisionleading Stampede and High Desert Mavericks in the second-half standings with nine games remaining in the season. Lancaster also completed its first series sweep of more than one game this season. Lancaster, which has been swept a franchisehigh 15 times this year, has five one-game series victories.
People think they can come in here and whoop our butt.
But we're not going to lay down for them. The first sweep probably couldn't have come against a better opponent, which is coached by former Lancaster manager Rick Burleson. They are frustrated because we beat them three in a row. That's the way I saw it. . . You have to give us credit, because we beat them in three games and we didn't start to throw at people like they did.