CHATTER: CAMARILLO FINDS WAYS TO CONTINUE RUN.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer The Camarillo High baseball team's school-record winning streak Noun 1. winning streak - a streak of wins streak, run - an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" last week reached 19 games, the longest in the area this year. Not only is the streak impressive in that it follows an 0-3 start, but also how the Scorpions are winning. Nine times they have overcome late-game deficits of at least three runs. ``We learned how to win,'' Camarillo coach Scott Cline cline, in biology, any gradual change in a particular characteristic of a population of organisms from one end of the geographical range of the population to the other. said. ``They just never feel like they're out of it.'' The Scorpions (19-3, 12-0) clinched their fifth consecutive Pacific View League title Thursday against Channel Islands of Oxnard. They are up to No. 3 in the Southern Section Div. I rankings. ``Nobody thought we'd do this,'' Cline said. ``Not with the guys we'd lost. ``If you would have told me that we'd win 19 in a row and Delmon (Young) wasn't pitching, I wouldn't have believed you. To lose 30 wins from last year and do this. ... But these guys got a taste of winning and they like it.'' The Scorpions can secure their eighth consecutive 20-win season with a victory today. ... High-profile football prospect Ryan Sorensen has transferred from Newbury Park to Westlake. The 6-foot-5, 300-pound offensive lineman is a two-time All-Marmonte League selection. He said his family moved into the Westlake area, which means he is eligible to play immediately. ... Infielder Brian Roades of the Chaminade of West Hills baseball team committed to UC Irvine. ... College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. men's basketball players David Hungerford and Steven Brown have committed to four-year universities. Hungerford is going to San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden State, and Brown is headed to Missouri-St. Louis. ... Infielder Natalie Mueggler, who is having a big senior season for Valencia High's 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, has committed to UC Davis. She'll join Hart of Newhall pitcher Lindsay Tognetti, who committed last week. ... Two teams few expected to contend for the Mission League baseball championship this year have a chance to claim the title when they meet this week. Chaminade and Harvard-Westlake of Studio City are among the league's top three teams who enter the final week of the regular season within a game of each other. Chaminade is tied for first with defending co-champion Alemany of Mission Hills, and Harvard-Westlake is one game back. Harvard-Westlake plays at Chaminade at 3:45 p.m. today, then hosts the Eagles on Thursday. ``We're exactly where we hoped to be,'' Chaminade coach Mark Gubicza College of the Canyons sophomore infielder Art Ortiz, a Lancaster graduate, was named Western State Conference South Division Player of the Year. His .463 average during conference play helped the Cougars to the division title. Canyons coach Chris Cota was named the division's coach of the year. ... The Myron Bayless-Harry Cook Scholarship Fund, sponsored by the Cal State Northridge 1967 Junior Rose Bowl team, will hold its fifth annual banquet Saturday at Pickwick Banquet Center. This year, Bob Hiegert, former baseball player, coach and athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic at CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge , will be honored. All former players and anyone else interested are invited to attend. Information: (818) 677-3215. Staff Writer Gerry Gittelson contributed to this report. STATILICIOUS The 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. softball team is hitting better than .250 as a team and .182 with runners in scoring position In the sport of baseball, a baserunner is said to be in scoring position when he is on second or third base. The distinction between being on first base and second or third base is that a runner on first can usually only score if the batter hits an extra base hit, while a runner on . Of its seven 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. losses, six have come by one run and five were 1-0. The 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. also had an 18-inning scoreless tie with Newbury Park. Not that they didn't have chances to score. Thousand Oaks has left 128 runners on base, 83 in Marmonte League games. And not counting the 17 runs the Lancers scored against last-place Moorpark and Calabasas, they have scored just three of the 74 runners who reached base. Fortunately for Thousand Oaks, it has allowed only 27 runs in 24 games. ATHLETES OF THE WEEK CODY CIPRIANO Senior Westlake Injury has limited the UC Irvine-bound senior to designated-hitter duties, and he is living up to the position's name. Cipriano had eight hits, nine 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 and four home runs in two days last week. He went 4 for 4 with three home runs in a 9-6 victory over Calabasas on Friday to give him a team-high eight homers and help the Warriors clinch Clinch, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, formed by the junction of two forks in SW Va., and flowing generally SW across E Tenn. to the Tennessee River at Kingston. at least a share of their fourth consecutive Marmonte League title. ``He put on a show,'' Calabasas coach Rick Nathanson said. ``That was impressive to watch. I just wish it wasn't against us.'' KAT kat katal. kat abbr. katal kat katal. WALSH Junior Granada Hills Walsh threw two no-hitters last week and earned victories for both, including one over West Valley League rival 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:
Walsh had 14 strikeouts in a 4-0 victory over Cleveland of Reseda on Monday, and she missed a perfect game against El Camino Real on Thursday when Kelly Oswald reached base on a dropped strike-three call. Walsh leads the region with 256 strikeouts. UP AND COMER JOEY SIDDONS Camarillo The sophomore shortstop is batting .500 for the Scorpions' league-champion junior varsity junior varsity n. Abbr. JV A high-school or college team that competes in interschool sports on the level below varsity. Noun 1. baseball team. He also is expected to contend for the starting quarterback job in the fall after passing for more than 2,000 yards last season on JV. HEAD 2 HEAD KRIS MANANSALA Granada Hills Outside hitter MIKE BELLANTE Taft Outside hitter Granada Hills beat Taft of Woodland Hills twice this year, but that won't mean much when the two meet in the City Championship boys' volleyball semifinals tonight at Granada Hills. Manansala is one of a handful of offensive weapons for the Highlanders, who were undefeated in the West Valley League and have not been challenged in the postseason. He is a strong finisher with terrific leaping ability and strength. Bellante has come on strong for the Toreadors in the playoffs, and the talented hitter needs a big performance if Taft is to challenge Granada Hills. Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. at Granada Hills High THEN AND NOW The City Section softball playoffs begin today, and El Camino Real of Woodland Hills is the area's highest-seeded team. El Camino has won 12 City Section titles, 10 under former head coach Neils Ludlow, who turned the program over to Lori Chandler after the 2000 season. Ludlow since has retired from teaching at El Camino Real, where he was a high-level math teacher, and now is serving a three-year Mormon mission in Harrisburg, Penn, where he is responsible for 300 missionaries in the city. Current 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) assistant coach and longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective friend Bob Fischer said Ludlow loves what he is doing and that he is serving his mission now instead of when he attended Brigham Young because he was playing baseball. CAPTION(S): 5 photos, 6 boxes Photo: (1) CODY CIPRIANO (2) KAT WALSH (3) JOEY SIDDONS (4) KRIS MANANSALA (5) MIKE BELLANTE Box: (1) STATILICIOUS (see text) (2) ATHLETES OF THE WEEK (see text) (3) UP AND COMER (see text) (4) HEAD 2 HEAD (see text) (5) THEN AND NOW (see text) (6) ON DECK: Highlights of the coming week |
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