A.V. BATS WORK IN WET WEATHER, TOO DISTRICT 51 4, CANADA 1.Byline: Lee Lamberts Special to the Daily News KALAMAZOO, Mich. - After beating Canada 4-1 in the Big League World Series on Thursday, the task is simple for the 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 Disrtict 51 All-Star 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' team. Win. Sit. And wait. The Disrtict 51 girls, 4-1 in the round-robin portion of the BLWS, play a 6:30 a.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT game against winless Florida. Two hours later, 4-1 Maryland plays Indianapolis, and host Michigan - it is 4-1, too - plays Canada. Antelope Valley coach Lester Ball said he feels his team is in good shape after Thursday's victory. On Thursday, though, Antelope Valley had more than just Canada to worry about. Rain delayed the game an hour and the temperature never reached 70. By game time, the rain had stopped, but wet grounds and wet balls proved problematic. ``I am very, very disappointed in myself and the way I pitched today,'' Marciea Ball said after improving to 2-0 in the World Series. ``I had trouble keeping the ball down and the umpire A person chosen to decide a question in a controversy that has been submitted to Arbitration but has not been resolved because the arbitrators cannot reach agreement, or one who has been chosen to be a permanent arbitrator for the duration of a collective bargaining agreement. was a low-ball umpire.'' But Ball prevailed. She threw a three-hitter and struck out four, but she issued five walks. She only had two easy innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. - the fourth and the seventh. ``I don't think I ever had that many walks in a game,'' Ball said. ``I'm really disappointed.'' There was nothing disappointing in Antelope antelope, name applied to a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the sheep and goats. The North American pronghorn is sometimes called an antelope, but belongs to a separate, related family (Antilocapridae). Valley's offense. The All-Stars banged out 11 hits, with Sayoko Rutledge, Heather Nix, Erin Yasumoto and Monique Saldana getting two each. This was Rutledge's first multihit game of the series, but for Nix and Yasumoto - who have a combined 13 hits - it was a continuation of some recent torrid hitting. The AV girls had the bats working early under the low-hanging clouds. |
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