CAMARILLO'S BEAT GOES ON\CAMARILLO 4, THOUSAND OAKS 1.Byline: Dave Desmond Daily News Staff Writer For 10 innings on Tuesday, the artists formerly known as the Camarillo Heavy Metal Band looked like little more than a bunch of banjo banjo, stringed musical instrument, with a body resembling a tambourine. The banjo consists of a hoop over which a skin membrane is stretched; it has a long, often fretted neck and four to nine strings, which are plucked with a pick or the fingers. hitters, a group that might not have scored until 1999. That all changed on the final note, however, when Mandi Comer strummed a three-run home run in the 11th to give Camarillo High School a 4-1 victory over host 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. in a Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. softball opener. Camarillo first-year coach Nichole Victoria, whose starting lineup For the line of action figures, see . A starting lineup in sports refers to the set of players actively participating in the event when the game begins. The players in the starting lineup are commonly referred to as starters, whereas the others are substitutes entered league with a .393 batting average and had outscored four previous opponents 46-0, was relieved that her No. 1-rated team was able to fend off the upstart Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. (4-1, 0-1) and remain at the top of the charts. "I feel like my ulcer is going away now," she said. The cause of most of Camarillo's nervous disorders was Thousand Oaks pitcher Jennifer Sharron (3-1), a junior left-hander who struck out 11 and allowed only a bloop bloop Baseball n. A blooper. tr.v. blooped, bloop·ing, bloops To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield. adj. Hit just beyond the infield. double, two bunt singles and a ground single through 10 innings. At one point, she retired 14 consecutive Scorpions. Three of her strikeouts were against Comer, a senior who hadn't started at Camarillo until this season. "I was really mad at myself for not hitting," said Comer, whose 11th-inning homer, her fourth of the season, came on a line drive down the left-field line with two out and drove in Jefflyn Spahr and Sarah DeWoody. "We were all frustrated." With five sophomores and five juniors in his starting lineup, Lancers coach Gary Walin was anything but frustrated and put a positive spin on his group's 0-1 league record. "(Camarillo) is one of the best teams in Southern California," he said. "We can get better from this. We needed to get tested. I'm upbeat." Through four innings, Thousand Oaks was beat up. The Scorpions (5-0, 1-0) led 1-0 and starting pitcher Melanie Richardson mowed through the lineup, retiring the first 14 batters she faced. The Lancers tied it in the sixth, however, when Kristin Combe combe Noun same as coomb drove in Shelley Teverbaugh with a sacrifice fly. Richardson gave way to sophomore reliever Cindy Ball (3-0) in the seventh. The two combined to strike out four and allow four hits. CAMARILLO'S SOFTBALL DOMINACE Runs scored by opponents so far this season: Canyon: 0 Sylmar: 0 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:
Quartz Hill: 0 Thousand Oaks: 1 CAPTION(S): Box CAMARILLO'S SOFTBALL DOMINACE (see text) |
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