BASEBALL NOTEBOOK: GAILEN'S A SMALL WONDER.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer Blake Gailen spent more time as a base coach than he played during his sophomore season at 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:
Gailen's playing time has soared during the summer and so has the success of his baseball team. The Woodland Hills West American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. team, consisting of primarily the same players from ECR's high school team that finished tied for fourth in the West Valley League this spring, won the District 20 18-and-under title and is one of three local teams playing in this weekend's Area 6 playoffs. District 20 runner-up Chatsworth and District 16 champion Agoura also are competing in the six-team, double-elimination tournament A double-elimination tournament is a competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two games or matches. that runs through Sunday. The winner advances to the state tournament in Yountville. Today's games are at Birmingham High of Van Nuys and the final two days are at UCLA's Jackie Robinson Noun 1. Jackie Robinson - United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972) Jack Roosevelt Robinson, Robinson Stadium. Woodland Hills West clinched the district title by upsetting Chatsworth twice Sunday. Gailen was the winning pitcher in both games. The 5-foot-2 left-hander, who has combined with others such as Chris Scott Chris Scott may refer to:
He plays his club football for Portlaoise and is also a member of the Laois senior team. to provide reliable pitching while ace Greg Acheatel has been busy attending camps and showcases much of the summer, pitched in relief in a come-from-behind 12-11 victory in the first game to force the deciding contest. Gailen started the second game, and Chatsworth's lineup of mostly the same players who won the City championship didn't have an easier time handling his slow but on-target pitches. Woodland Hills West, won a 14-4 mercy-rule game to clinch the championship. --Role reversal: Focusing solely on pitching was one of the toughest parts of becoming a pitcher for Chatsworth left-hander Joe Guntz, who is 25-0 in two varsity seasons and was named an ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network All-American this year. Until he got to high school, Guntz rarely pitched and was better known for his hitting. Guntz is displaying his hitting skills again this summer. He did not pitch either game against Woodland Hills West but was one of the few Chatsworth players with multiple hits. --A fan of both sides: When Chatsworth and Woodland Hills West face each other, Matt LaCour can be happy no matter which teams wins. LaCour is Chatsworth's Legion coach and will move to ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response ECR European Congress of Radiology ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance ECR El Camino Real (Kings Highway; California) ECR Electronic Cash Register ECR East Coast Radio (South Africa) in the fall as the new baseball coach. He considered having Chatsworth head coach Tom Meusborn coach the Legion team when it faced Wooldland Hills West during the regular season, but LaCour was at the helm Sunday for the two losses against his future players. --Hot hitter: Kevin Howard's two hits on July 14 gave him just a .170 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. (9 for 53) for the summer with the USA National Team. Yet in that game, Howard started a hitting streak In baseball, a hitting streak refers to the consecutive number of official games in which a player gets at least one base hit. Games in which a player does not have any official at bats due to walks, or sacrifice bunts, or being hit by a pitch, are ignored (neither break the streak that continued into this, the final week of the team's summer tour. His triple Wednesday gave the former Westlake infielder a hit in 10 consecutive games and 18 hits in his last 37 at-bats, raising his average to .291. --Odds and ends: Brad Boyer and 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. of Camarillo, Cody Haerther and Bobby Paschal of Chaminade of West Hills, Ryan Braun of Granada Hills, Kris Krise of Crescenta Valley, Jake Coash of Canyon, Eddie Baeza from Poly of Sun Valley and Acheatel were selected to the Southern California Area Code Team for next month's Area Code Games. ... Valley Invitational Baseball League semifinals are today and Saturday, and the championship game is Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the William S. Hart PONY Complex. ... Drew Saberhagen of Calabasas High went 4 for 5 and pitched a four-hitter to lead the Thousand Oaks Little League Senior all-stars to a 16-2 victory over Saticoy to advance Thousand Oaks to Saturday's state divisional tournament in Anaheim. Saberhagen also homerd twice for Calabasas in a VIBL playoff game Tuesday against Alameny, giving Calabasas its sixth consecutive victory. Calabasas won again Wednesday to earn a berth in today's semifinal against the winner of Thursday's Valencia-Alemany game. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Nick Trombetta of Agoura's American Legion team pitches Thursday against Azusa at Birmingham High. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer |
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