A BACKWARD STREAK; MARAUDERS BASEBALL, SOFTBALL TEAMS STRUGGLE.Byline: Chris Cocoles Daily News Staff Writer This is not the way coaches Joe Watts and Gene Pagliaro planned their 1998 baseball and softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' seasons. Until the Marauders scored a 5-4 Foothill Conference softball win over Desert on Wednesday, the teams were each reeling from losing streaks. The softball team snapped a six-game skid, but the baseball team took a 10-game streak into Thursday's game at Victor Valley, the first of three consecutive road trips for the 2-13 Marauders, who are 0-9 away from home. The reason for the baseball team's misfortunes isn't difficult to pinpoint: pitching, or a lack of it. The Marauders potent offensive attack, a .293 team batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. through the season's first 14 games, has been rendered almost useless due to a pitching staff earned run average earned run average n. Baseball Abbr. ERA A measure of a pitcher's performance obtained by dividing the total of earned runs allowed by the total of innings pitched and multiplying by nine. Noun 1. that stood at a blimp-like 10.82. Just two of eight AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C pitchers who have seen time on the mound, Tyler Kincaid and Jason Raine, can claim an ERA of under 10. Kincaid's numbers went down even further following a complete-game 5-3 loss to Victor Valley Tuesday. The sophomore (2-2) has earned both of the team's wins. The softball team, searching for its sixth consecutive Foothill Conference championship, opened the regular season with a come-from-behind win over Pierce but dropped 10 of 12. During the six-game losing streak, AVC (4-10 overall) opened the defense of its league title with a 3-2 loss to Chaffey before Wednesday's victory over Desert. Beginning with today's 3 p.m. game against Victor Valley at Marie Kerr Park in Palmdale, the Marauders play four of their next six at home. Track and field: The Marauders will compete at the Bakersfield Relays beginning today and concluding Saturday. The question for AVC coach Mark Covert: can freshman sprinter Tranisha Holmes break her own school record again? The Palmdale High product ran an 11.9 (hand-timed) 100 meters at a Western States Conference meet at College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. last Friday. Even the automatic time of 12.14 was plenty fast enough for Holmes to bump Niani Dunn's five-year-old mark of 12.38. Football: Michael Gleich, who split the 1997 quarterbacking duties with Adams State-bound Brad Norris, signed a letter of intent to play at NAIA NAIA abbr. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes school Azusa-Pacific. Gleich, a 21-year-old Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley High who redshirted for two straight seasons after playing at AVC in 1994, had two defining moments during his career. The first was as a 1994 freshman, when he completed 12 of 16 passes for 302 yards against Victor Valley, one of just three AVC quarterbacks to surpass the 300 plateau. Gleich's second biggest performance might have been in the Marauders' 9-7 win over Kings River last Sept. 20. Gleich directed a 13-play, 61-yard drive that was capped by a 12-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Collins with 19 seconds left in the game. Alumni report: While AVC's men's basketball season ended with a shocking, first-round loss in the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, playoffs, Michael Hamelin's year at West Texas A&M is far from over. The Buffaloes (26-4) reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Tournament for the first time in school history with a 105-101 win over Central Oklahoma
Central Oklahoma is the geographical name for the central region of the state. It is also known by the Oklahoma Department of Tourism designation, Frontier Country. last Saturday in Abeline, Texas. Hamelin scored 16 points in the championship game of the South Central Regional. West Texas meets UC Davis on March 18 in Louisville, Ky. CAPTION(S): Box BOX: Upcoming events |
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