BASEBALL BEAT THE OVERACHIEVERS.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer Jimmy Goffredo already is checking out calling plans. The Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. of La Crescenta senior will head to Harvard in the fall to play basketball, but he wants to make sure he keeps in touch with his high school baseball teammates. Goffredo is part of a Falcons infield filled with overachieving seniors who have been together for years. In addition to Goffredo at first, there are Aaron McGuinness at second base, Kyle Barratt at shortstop, Brett Nichols at third base and Colt Forsythe at catcher. Their time together not only makes for a group that plays well, it has fostered an atmosphere of always striving for more, which is a key part of Crescenta Valley's success. ``The attitude off the field totally reflects how we are on the field,'' Barratt said. Barratt is headed to UC Riverside on a baseball scholarship, but baseball is far from the only area in which this group has made an impact. Most of them are honor students who have earned national recognition. McGuinness was a standout for the football team, for which Forsythe also played. McGuinness, a four-year starter on the baseball team, is also a member of the school calculus calculus, branch of mathematics that studies continuously changing quantities. The calculus is characterized by the use of infinite processes, involving passage to a limit—the notion of tending toward, or approaching, an ultimate value. club. Then, of course, there is Goffredo, who is known as the brainiest of the bunch. A FRESH START Vasquez dedicated its new field Saturday, but that's not the only thing new for the team from Acton. The Mustangs have 11 players returning from last season's team that went 10-10 and finished fifth in the High Desert League, but this year's version has a drastically different outlook. Vasquez is off to the best start in school history. The Mustangs already matched last season's victory total by defeating Lucerne Lucerne (l  sûrn`), Ger. Luzern (ltsĕrn`), canton (1993 pop. Valley on Saturday to improve to 10-0. Their goal for the regular season
was 16 wins, since that is how many they need to earn an automatic berth
in the Southern Section Div. V playoffs as a freelance team, which is
one that is not associated with a league.
Former major-leaguer Bob James Bob James can refer to different people:
``I stepped into a real good situation,'' James said. KEEPING TABS Former Crescenta Valley of La Crescenta ace Kris Krise made his first collegiate start for UC Irvine on Tuesday against Pepperdine. The freshman right-hander earned the victory, striking out four, walking none and allowing one run on four hits in five innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. , retiring 11 in a row at one point, to improve to 3-1. ... Granada Hills graduate Ryan Braun
Ryan Joseph Braun, nicknamed The Hebrew Hammer has hits in 13 consecutive games for Miami. The freshman is batting .377 with a team-high 39 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 and nine home runs. ... Casey O'Quinn from Royal of Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. is the second-leading hitter for Troy State with a .313 average. His former Highlanders teammate Brian Lipman has five home runs and 16 RBI for the Trojans. HONORS San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. High senior catcher D.J. Lewis was named the 2002 RBI student athlete baseball player of the year. The selection was announced this week at the kickoff breakfast for the RBI Easter tournament. AROUND THE LEAGUES Foothill: Valencia received a last-minute invitation to next week's prestigious National Classic when a team from Florida dropped out, but the Vikings declined the offer because of their commitment to the Big West Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. in Irvine. Valencia (11-2, 5-1) opens Big West play Saturday at 1 p.m. against Trabuco Hills. But first there is the matter of holding on to first place in league as the Vikings play host to Canyon (7-5, 3-3) today in the rubber game of the season's three-game series. Tuesday's 4-0 loss to Valencia dropped defending co-champion Canyon behind Hart of Newhall (7-6, 4-2) and into third place. Marmonte: Calabasas' battery is missing two key components with Pacific-bound pitcher Justin Klipp and UC Irvine-bound catcher Aaron Lowenstein sidelined. The Coyotes (8-3, 5-2) hope to have Lowenstein available by Saturday. He is recovering from cracked ribs suffered when he took a foul ball in the chest last week against Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. . ... Simi Valley (8-6, 2-5) is a perfect indication of how deep the talent is in this league. The Pioneers started 4-0 and have just one loss outside league but are in last place. Pitcher Mike Roe improved to 3-0 with a four-hit victory over Rio Mesa of Oxnard on Saturday in the Redondo tournament as Simi Valley handed the Spartans only their second loss of the season. Mission: Harvard-Westlake of Studio City's touted hitters Brennan Boesch and Josh Satin are receiving plenty of support from teammates such as Jason Glushon and Ben Soley, making the Wolverines one of the area's hottest teams. They improved to 9-3 by sweeping Montclair Prep of Panorama City on Saturday after a big victory earlier in the week over Quartz Hill. Despite the success, Harvard-Westlake entered this week with no better than a three-way tie for third place because two of its losses were in league. ... St. Francis of La Canada senior Joey Sember, who had been sidelined with a back injury, made his first appearance of the season Wednesday and allowed three hits in five innings to help the Golden Knights
Loyola of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. first baseman/pitcher Trey Martin committed to Georgetown. Pacific: Crescenta Valley of La Crescenta junior Aaron Feterl was named 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. of the Babe Herman Floyd Caves "Babe" Herman (June 26 1903 - November 27 1987) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who was best known for his several seasons with the Brooklyn Robins (now the Los Angeles Dodgers). tournament, which the Falcons (11-3) won by defeating Peninsula 9-1 on Wednesday. He batted .400 with two home runs, seven RBI and earned a victory when he struck out seven in five innings. Pacific View: Camarillo's Delmon Young Delmon Damarcus Young, (born September 14, 1985 in Montgomery, Alabama), the younger brother of Dmitri Young, is an outfielder on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and was, arguably, the top hitting prospect in baseball as of the end of the 2005 minor-league baseball season. went 1 for 2 and walked twice in a victory over Hueneme of Oxnard on Tuesday, leaving him one hit shy of tying his brother Dmitri's Ventura County record of 159 career hits. He gets a shot at the record when Camarillo (10-3, 5-0) faces Hueneme (4-9, 2-3) again today. ... Camarillo earned a berth in the Redondo tournament final by becoming only the second team this season to beat Mira Costa of Manhattan Beach Manhattan Beach, city (1990 pop. 32,063), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1912. It is a residential and beach community with an oil refinery and nearby factories that produce transportation and electrical equipment, computers, and pottery. , doing so 12-11 Saturday. Donald Brown Donald E. Brown is an American professor of anthropology (emeritus). He worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his theoretical work regarding the existence, characteristics and relevance of universals of human nature. went 6 for 7 in the game to help Camarillo overcome a 9-2 deficit. The championship game is April 26. ... Rio Mesa of Oxnard has lost three in a row after its 9-0 start earned the Spartans a No. 9 ranking in Division I. Valley Mission: Jason Bishop and Rudy Alvarado entered the week batting .500 to lead a group of six Kennedy of Granada Hills regulars batting at least .400. The productive offense is a big part of why the Cougars were alone in first at 5-0 in league after a 3-2 victory over San Fernando on Tuesday. West Valley: Cleveland of Reseda, which last week ended a streak of five consecutive losses, moved out of last place by defeating Granada Hills 3-1 on Tuesday behind another dominant performance by Billy Spottiswood (4-2), who had nine strikeouts and came within one out of a no-hitter. Overcoming slow league starts is nothing new for the Cavaliers, who won the City title last season after starting league 0-4. THE BIG PICTURE Chatsworth has a long way to go to match its program record of 23 consecutive victories in a season, but the Chancellors have little reason to believe they don't have a shot. Chatsworth moved to No. 4 in this week's Baseball America  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . national rankings, then silenced West Valley League co-leader Birmingham of Lake Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). to take sole possession of first place. Defending City champion Cleveland of Reseda, which appears back on track after a five-game losing streak, gets its shot at Chatsworth after next week's spring break. Things aren't as clear-cut in leagues such as the Mission and Marmonte, in which nearly any team has a shot at the title. For instance, Calabasas was knocked out of the Marmonte lead with two losses last week, but the Coyotes regained a share of first when three-time defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre Westlake, which had beat Calabasas on Friday, lost to Royal of Simi Valley on Wednesday. WHO'S HOT JON ALIA, Newbury Park: The junior, who ranks second on the team with a .420 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. , has hit in 15 consecutive games. TREVOR BELL Trevor Bell is an abstract painter, associated with the St. Ives group. Born in Leeds, England in 1930, he studied at the Leeds College of Art. In the early 1950s he was a leading member of the artists working in St. Ives. , Crescenta Valley: The sophomore faced a minimum 21 batters in a one-hit victory over Hoover of Glendale on Friday. He went 3 for 4 with three RBI the next day as the Falcons of La Crescenta opened the Babe Herman tournament with a victory over Nordhoff of Ojai. He finished the tournament by striking out seven in a complete game in which he also doubled and had two RBI and was named the game's MVP. TONY BONELLI, Calabasas: He entered the lineup last month as a replacement for a sidelined teammate, but the junior has done so well the Coyotes can't justify taking him out. He went 2 for 3 with a double Wednesday against Simi Valley to make him 15 for 27 this season. BRETT MUNSTER, Chatsworth: After going a combined 6 for 10 with eight RBI, two homers and two doubles last week, the senior shortstop added more hits, including a two-run double, in a victory over Birmingham of Lake Balboa on Tuesday. KEVIN POLLACK pollack: see cod. pollack or pollock Either of two commercially important North Atlantic species of food fish in the cod family (Gadidae). , Montclair Prep: He went a combined 6 for 7 with four RBI in a doubleheader loss to Harvard-Westlake of Studio City on Saturday to raise his average to .622, best among local small-school players. CAPTION(S): 3 photos, 6 boxes Photo: (1) Crescenta Valley depends a lot on its core group of seniors: Colt Forsythe, kneeling, and, from left, Jimmy Goffredo, Brett Nichols, Kyle Barratt and Aaron McGuinness. John McCoy/Staff Photographer (2) VASQUEZ'S EDDIE COOK Gene Blevins/Staff Photographer (3) CAMARILLO'S DELMON YOUNG Julio Cortez/Staff Photographer Box: (1) Daily News TOP 10 (2) THE BIG PICTURE (see text) (3) SEVEN-DAY FORECAST (4) GAME OF THE WEEK: No. 7 Chaminade of West Hills at No. 6 Calabasas, Thursday, 3:15 p.m. (5) LOCAL LEADERS (6) WHO'S HOT (see text) |
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