BIG LEAGUE SOFTBALL: DISTRICT 51 RUNNING OUT OF LIVES AT WORLD SERIES.Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Special to the Daily News Imperiled, but not out. That's how the Antelope Valley's District 51 softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' manager Walt Patison summed up his team's prospects after Tuesday's doubleheader spilt spilt v. A past tense and a past participle of spill1. on Day 2 of the Big League World Series at Vanderberg Park in Kalamazoo, Mich. The West Region champion was no-hit by East Region champion Connecticut 5-0 in the second game. Earlier in the day, Kelsie Blankemeyer (Quartz Hill High) hit a two-run homer that highlighted a thrilling seventh-inning rally in a 3-2 come-from-behind victory over Asia-Pacific Region champion Manila Manila (mənĭl`ə), city (1990 pop. 1,601,234), capital of the Philippines, SW Luzon, on Manila Bay. Manila is the center of the country's largest metropolitan area, its chief port, and the focus of all governmental, commercial, industrial, (Philippines). District 51 plays its third consecutive doubleheader today, opening against Central Region champion Wyoming, Mich., then playing Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. Region champion Mayaguez (Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. ). District 51 (2-2) needs to finish the nine-team five-day round robin with one of the two best records to reach Saturday's championship game. ``We basically have to win out to have a chance to get to the title game,'' Patison said. ``The important thing is that they know it's not over.'' gideon.rubin@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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