BASEBALL : 24 TEAMS SET FOR DAILY NEWS INVITATIONAL.Byline: Daily News A record 24-team field has been finalized for the Daily News Baseball Invitational that begins on March 4. For four straight years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time City Section 4-A and 3-A champions have come out of the tournament. This year's field includes two-time defending City 4-A champion Kennedy High School and last season's 3-A champion, South Gate. There are 14 City Section teams and 10 from the Southern Section. The tournament will be a five-game round-robin format played over two weeks. The tournament MVPs will be honored at a presentation by Jim Easton, president of Easton Sporting Goods Noun 1. sporting goods - sports equipment sold as a commodity commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce sports equipment - equipment needed to participate in a particular sport . Victory Custom Athletics, California Headwear head·wear n. A hat or other covering for the head. , Rosie's Gillery and Diamond Inc. are also tournament sponsors. ``I feel this year's field is one of the highest quality for high school baseball in 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, ,'' tournament director Steve Marden said. Among the featured teams are Kennedy and All-City pitcher Jon Garland Jon Steven Garland (born September 27, 1979 in Valencia, California) is a right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox. Garland was selected by the Chicago Cubs with the 10th pick of the 1997 amateur draft. ; El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
Other City teams participating are Poly, Canoga Park, Cleveland, North Hollywood, Granada Hills, San Fernando, Franklin, Grant, Birmingham and Eagle Rock. Other Southern Section teams entered are Highland, Palmdale, Santa Paula, Malibu and Glendale. Among the featured matchups are Antelope Valley at Kennedy on March 7, which could see a pitcher's duel between Garland and Douglass; Cleveland at Monroe on March 4; Kennedy at Chaminade on March 11; Westlake at Kennedy and Antelope Valley at El Camino Real on March 13; and North Hollywood at Calabasas and Thousand Oaks at El Camino Real on March 15. Marden began the tournament with just six teams 10 years ago. Then it was known as the San Fernando tournament. By last season, it had grown to 18 teams. This season, it expands to 24. And in 1998, Marden hopes to add two more Southern Section teams, bringing the number to 26. Each player participating in the tournament will receive a hat and T-shirt. Coaches will receive from Easton an aluminum fungo fun·go n. pl. fun·goes Baseball A fly ball hit for fielding practice by a player who tosses the ball up and hits it on its way down with a long, thin, light bat. [Origin unknown.] bat and each team will receive a dozen baseballs from Diamond. |
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