BIG LEAGUE WORLD SERIES: A.V. GIRLS TAKE PAIR IN ONE DAY HITTING COMES AROUND NICELY AFTER BAD TUESDAY OUTING.Byline: Lee Lamberts Special to the Daily News KALAMAZOO, Mich. - The 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 District 51 All-Star 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' team got back on track at the Big League World Series by doing what got them there in the first place. The team used airtight air·tight adj. 1. Impermeable by air. 2. Having no weak points; sound: an airtight excuse. airtight Adjective 1. defense, solid pitching and timely hitting to score a pair of wins Wednesday - 5-1 over 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. (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. ) and 5-2 over Central (Indianapolis, Ind.). Wednesday's efforts were a far cry from Tuesday's outing, when the Antelope Valley girls mustered only one hit in a 9-0 loss to the East (Maryland) squad. ``It was nice to see the bats come around today,'' said coach Lester Ball after his team stroked 17 hits in the two games. ``In the first game against Purto Rico, we were a little worried because it takes a whole lot of discipline against (slow) pitching like that. But we were still playing good defense and the pitching is doing OK.'' Beating Pueto Rico and Indianapolis puts Antlope Valley at 3-1, tied with both Michigan District 2 (host kalamazoo) and East (Maryland). Antelope Valley beat Kalamazoo on Monday and lost to Maryland on Wednesday, knotting those three teams at 3-1. In recording their third win of the Series and second of the day, the Antelope Valley girls had to come from behind against Indianapolis. Amanda Wachsmuth, who didn't get through the third inning in·ning n. 1. a. Baseball One of nine divisions or periods of a regulation game, in which each team has a turn at bat as limited by three outs. b. innings (used with a sing. in Tuesday's 9-0 pounding, struggled in the first inning, when Indianapolis used a couple of singles, a sacrifice fly and another single to go up 2-0. But the California girls battled back, getting one run in the second on Erin Yasumoto's 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 single, then four more in the fourth to gain control. In that inning, A.V. batted around with Keri Pulcifer, Heather Nix and Yasumoto getting run-scoring hits. The fourth run scored on a wild pitch. Wachsmuth and Monique Saldana had two hits each, but it was Yasumoto, who was hitless in the first two games, who provided the spark with a 3-for-3 effort. On the mound, Wachsmuth took charge. She pitched four innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. and gave up two runs on four hits before giving way to Marciea Ball, who pitched three innings of shutout ball for her first save of the World Series. ``My back was really tight (Tuesday) and it was a morning game and it was kind of cool and it takes me a long time to warmup when its cooler,'' Wachsmuth said. ``I took the whole warmup time and I stretched and I still couldn't get loose.'' ``But today I decided to throw my game. I started out throwing what I thought would work from my previous games, but those things weren't exactly working. But I had to throw what was working today (curveballs and changeups) and I figured that out in the second inning.'' In the opener, Antelope Valley struck early against Puerto Rico, scoring single runs in the first and third innings and two more in the fifth in support of the three-hit pitching of Candace Huling (1-0 in the Series). Back-to-back doubles by Wachsmuth and Pulcifer netted the first run and gave Antelope Valley more runs and more hits than it got in seven innings on Tuesday. Huling shut down the Purto Ricans until the seventh inning, when two walks and a single resulted in their only run. Nix prevented further damage by turning a line drive into a double play. An infield Infield is a widely used term in sports terminology, its meaning depends on in what sport it is used. In baseball In baseball the baseball diamond plus a rounded region beyond it (see diagram), usually clear of grass, in contrast to the more distant, usually grass-covered error put runners back on first and third, but Huling struck out Zoenith Melendez to end the game. Antelope Valley plays Canada (1-2) this afternoon. Ball (1-0) is scheduled to start the 1 p.m. (EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT ) game. |
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