CAMARILLO SOFTBALL STAR COMMITS.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer Camarillo High softball player De Ann Young has committed to play at Oregon State, joining former high school teammate Cambria Miranda, a Beavers freshman. Young, the younger sister of 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. , the No. 1 pick in the 2003 Major League Baseball draft The First-Year Player Draft is Major League Baseball's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players, from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs, to its teams. , hit .430 with 24 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 as a junior. She headlines a group of four area players who committed to colleges this week. Westlake High catcher Megan Shie has verbally committed to Ohio State. Shie hit .455 with 26 RBI and was the Marmonte League Offensive Player of the Year. Amber Peterson, a catcher from Oaks Christian of Westlake Village, has decided to play for Southeast Missouri State. Peterson batted .470 with 39 RBI and struck out only once in 100 plate appearances last year. Young, Shie and Peterson were Daily News First Team All-Area selections. Harvard-Westlake of Studio City pitcher Kristin Gallant has committed to George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. . Gallant, who said she also considered Fordham, Rider, Columbia and Tufts, was honorable mention All-Area. Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com |
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