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ANTELOPE VALLEY COLLEGE NOTEBOOK: SOFTBALL RECORD BOOK NEEDS REWRITE AT AVC.


Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Special to the Daily News

Damage to 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
 College's softball team's archives was assessed a day after the Marauders completed the most successful season in program history, and the early estimates are not good.

The archives probably will have to be rewritten after 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
 set 26 team and individual records on its way to its first state tournament appearance.

The Marauders were one game from a matchup with No. 1 Cypress -- they would have needed to beat the Chargers twice -- when they lost to defending state champion Mount San Antonio Mount San Antonio, better known to most in Los Angeles as Old Baldy or Mount Baldy, is the highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California, USA and the highest point in Los Angeles County. Mount San Antonio has two summits.  of Walnut 2-0 Sunday. They were one of three teams to reach the last day of the three-day, eight-team state tournament at Redding's Big League Field of Dreams Sports Complex.

AVC (47-7) set team records for victories, winning percentage (.870), longest winning streak Noun 1. winning streak - a streak of wins
streak, run - an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"
 (28 games), home runs (44), 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.
 (.370), slugging percentage In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (abbreviated SLG) is the most popular measure of the power of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats:  (.560) and runs (374).

Freshman pitcher Nickie Perez, freshman first baseman Katie Cornelison, sophomore shortstop Tayler Wilson and sophomore second baseman second baseman
n. Baseball
The infielder who is positioned near and to the first-base side of second base.

Noun 1. second baseman - (baseball) the person who plays second base
second sacker
 Erica Ricker were the program's first All-America selections.

Cindy Vargas was the Foothill Conference's Coach of the Year for a second consecutive season and was the state's Coach of the Year.

Perez, a two-time Golden League MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip.  out of Littlerock High, was the state's Pitcher of the Year, and she set the school strikeout record (279).

Cornelison (Lancaster) set single-season records for hits (80), doubles (21) home runs (10) and RBIs (55), and she is second on the school's all-time home run list.

Wilson (Paraclete) set single-season and career records for sacrifices (16 and 30), and Ricker (Quartz Hill) set single-season and career records for runs (68 and 112).

Sophomore outfielder Nicole Means (Quartz Hill) set the career record for RBIs (75).

``Amazing,'' Vargas said. ``All the history and all the things we accomplished this year was just truly incredible.''

`Heart of gold': Perez (27-4 overall, 3-2 state tournament) pitched every inning of all five tournament games in sweltering swel·ter·ing  
adj.
1. Oppressively hot and humid; sultry.

2. Suffering from oppressive heat.



swel
 90-plus-degree heat that was exacerbated by the artificial surface the tournament was played on.

``You had to have been here to really appreciate what (Perez) went through,'' Vargas said. ``(The turf) made it feel 10 degrees hotter, and she went out every single game and battled and battled. She pitched with a heart of gold.''

She allowed two runs on seven hits Sunday against Mount San Antonio.

``She was drained, and I'm sure she didn't have everything, but she pitched a great game for us,'' Vargas said.

Qualifiers: AVC's women's and men's teams placed 10th and 13th Friday at the Southern California track and field championships at Mount San Antonio College.

The Marauders qualified for this weekend's state meet at Bakersfield College in four events.

Nicholas Saylor won the hammer throw (190 feet, 0 inches) and Nicolas Miconi (162-0) placed sixth.

Saylor placed third in the discus (156-1)

In the women's meet, Krystal won at 400 meters (55.72 seconds), and the 400 relay team placed fourth (48.94).

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