ANTELOPE VALLEY, PALMDALE AVOID DISTRACTIONS.Byline: Chris Cocoles Daily News Staff Writer Now that the Southern Section playoffs have started, coaches Ed t'Sas of Antelope Valley High School Antelope Valley High School is located in Lancaster, California and is part of the Antelope Valley Union High School District. It was founded in 1912[1]. It is located in the Mojave Desert. and Randy Lintemoot of Palmdale can focus on baseball. Both have had to deal with distractions that didn't involve balls and strikes or hits and errors. At 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 , t'Sas dealt with the loss of star pitcher Sean Douglass Sean Douglas (born May 8, 1972) is a retired New Zealand soccer player, who is currently assistant coach of the New Zealand U-20's team. Club career As a player he spent most of his years in the Australian league, but returned to Auckland when Carlton S.C. , who quit the team in a dispute over doing push-ups. At Palmdale, rumors of a player mutiny mutiny, concerted disobedient or seditious action by persons in military or naval service, or by sailors on commercial vessels. Mutiny may range from a combined refusal to obey orders to active revolt or going over to the enemy on the part of two or more persons. have been put to rest. ``Life goes on. I have been concentrating on getting us ready for the playoffs around here,'' said t'Sas, whose Antelopes play at Rio Mesa in Oxnard on Friday in a Division II game. ``We're just doing the things that you always do when getting ready for (the postseason),'' said Lintemoot of the Falcons' Division I home game against the Royal. Both games start at 3:15 p.m. on Friday. Palmdale and Antelope Valley have used different styles to get to the playoffs. The Antelopes (16-10) win with strong pitching, execution and clutch hitting. Palmdale (19-5) boasts a lineup of sluggers that makes pitching coaches cringe cringe intr.v. cringed, cring·ing, cring·es 1. To shrink back, as in fear; cower. 2. To behave in a servile way; fawn. n. An act or instance of cringing. . Either Brian Scoles or Jeremy Holiday will start for Antelope Valley. Scoles has served as both a starter and short reliever. He has a 2-1 record, four saves and a 1.47 ERA. ``He's just an all-around good pitcher for us,'' t'Sas said of Scoles. Holiday put up similar numbers to those of Douglass (4-2, 2.43 ERA). Holiday, a four-year varsity performer for Antelope Valley, is 8-4 with 2.48 ERA. He has just 15 walks and has struck out 84 in 56-1/3 innings. ``Jeremy has been a wonderful team player in this program,'' said t'Sas, whose Antelopes won the Golden League for the third time in the '90s. Offensively, the Antelopes depend on getting key hits and manufacturing runs. Third baseman third baseman n. Baseball The infielder stationed near third base. Noun 1. third baseman - (baseball) the person who plays third base third sacker Kevin Barlow (.365 overall) batted .455 in Golden League play and has a school-record 136 career hits. Like Holiday, Barlow is in his fourth varsity season. ``With Kevin Barlow, you always have a chance to win,'' t'Sas said. ``We don't have that 40-RBI guy on this team, but we seem to get timely hits and we've played good defense. That's how we go.'' Lintemoot figures his Falcons will have chances to score against Royal, who beat Hueneme 14-3 in a wild-card game Tuesday. In that game, Bobby Egan led Royal with three hits and two RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in . Matt Rainer was 2 for 4 with four RBI. ``If we can get some good pitching and play some solid defense, we'll have a chance. I'm fairly certain we'll hit the ball well,'' Lintemoot said. ``We need to do two out of the three well.'' Hitting has been the constant for Palmdale. Lintemoot said the lowest 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. among his starters is .358. Four Palmdale hitters have at least 33 RBI: Cory Briggs (46), Kevin Harmon (36), Brian Stien (33) and Jason Gorman (33). J.J. Rosati is batting a torrid .500 (38 for 76) and has 14 doubles. ``Nobody can really pitch around our lineup. From 1-9 we're pretty solid,'' Lintemoot said. ``Zeb (McDaniel) and Alex (Suarez) have been getting on base a lot (from the Nos. 1 and 2 positions). Cory is batting in the third spot and has been getting a lot of RBI chances.'' Lintemoot was unsure of his starting pitcher Noun 1. starting pitcher - (baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; , probably choosing among Briggs (4-1), Matt Harrington Matt Harrington (born February 1, 1982) is a baseball player who holds the record for the most times being chosen in the Major League Baseball amateur draft. Between 2000 and 2004, Harrington, a top prospect coming out of high school, was chosen in all five drafts, but never signed (3-0) and Harmon. ``All of our guys pitch. They spread out the innings and they throw strikes,'' Lintemoot said. |
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