CHEMISTRY RIGHT FOR WESTLAKE : WESTLAKE 2, SIMI VALLEY 0.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Daily News Staff Writer Conejo Valley The Conejo Valley is a region spanning both Southeastern Ventura County and Northwest Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States. It was discovered in 1542 by Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, and eventually became part of the Rancho El Conejo land grant by pizza parlor and movie theater managers should consider sending coupons to Westlake High, specifically the school'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. After all, if one player is a customer, count on the rest of the team becoming regulars, too. This is a close team, on and off the field, and the Warriors like to do things together. Stuff like going to the movies, eating lunch and, most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , winning softball games. Nobody forced the Warriors to get along, this is just a case of 14 girls liking one another. And it shows. ``It just sort of happened,'' said Westlake pitcher Erin Voeltz, who shut down Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. 2-0 Tuesday in a key 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. victory. Westlake moves into second place with the win, its third straight league victory since losing to first-place Newbury Park two weeks ago. The Warriors (13-2, 3-1) host the Panthers next Thursday. First-year Westlake coach Barbara Jordan Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American politician from Texas. She served as a congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979. Early life and career Jordan was born in Houston's Fifth Ward to Rev. isn't surprised. After the loss to Newbury Park, she said she still believed her team was capable of great things. She echoed that Tuesday after Voeltz stifled the Pioneers (10-3, 2-1) on two hits and 11 strikeouts. ``It's not just one or two players pulling to win, it's the whole team,'' Jordan said. ``There isn't any me, me me or I, I, I on this team.'' Westlake scored both runs in the fourth off Simi Valley starter Brittney Green, taking advantage of a hit, two walks and a wild pitch. Green departed with two outs in the inning after tweaking tweaking Vox populi Fine-tuning to produce optimal results an ankle injury she originally suffered during soccer season. ``Some days some things just don't go right,'' said Green, who was clearly affected by the injury on her landing foot. She surrendered the runs on a walk to Codie Richards and a wild pitch to Tiffany Meadows. ``She was totally in control until then,'' Simi Valley coach Suzanne Manlet said. ``She was obviously having a lot of trouble putting pressure on it. But that's not the reason we lost. We just didn't swing our sticks today. I was very disappointed with our offense.'' Jaime Astorino pitched the rest of the way for the Pioneers. |
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