CITY SECTION SOFTBALL PLAYOFFS: ECR FINALLY GETS PAST ROAD BUMP WILL MAKE FIRST TRIP TO TITLE GAME SINCE 1999.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 SOUTH GATE - After five years of disappointment, the 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:
The Conquistadores got over the semifinal hump by defeating Carson 4-1 Thursday afternoon to advance to the City Section championship game June 1 at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . It will be ECR's first trip to the title game since 1999. Fittingly, El Camino Real will play five-time defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre San Pedro, a 3-0 winner over Banning in Thursday's other semifinal, in the championship game. El Camino Real (27-6) and San Pedro (29-2) have each won 12 City titles. This year's game will break the tie. ``Finally,'' El Camino Real junior catcher Francesca Enea said. ``The first thing I'm going to do is call my sister when we get on the bus and tell her we won. I called her on the bus ride down and she was like, 'If you guys lose, that'll be six in a row in the semis.' I didn't even want to think about that. That wasn't going to happen.'' Enea's older sister Christina, now an All-American first baseman at Oklahoma, played in three City championship games, winning the title in 1999. The Conquistadores had lost in the semifinals to either Carson or San Pedro in the semifinals every year since. After such a long drought, El Camino Real didn't want to wait until the late innings to pull ahead. Sophomore leadoff batter Brittany Goodchild began the game with a double to left-center field and scored two batters later on Sarah Bass' sacrifice fly to left. El Camino Real added another run later in the inning when Kelly Caplan was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, forcing in Amanda Macintosh. ``I just wanted to get some relief off of (pitcher Megan Miller's) shoulders,'' Goodchild said. ``I'm a pitcher too, and I know how it feels to go nine or 10 innings without any runs. ``As soon as I hit the double, I felt like we were going to get some runs.'' Carson (23-12) mounted several rallies, but never got a big hit. The Colts loaded the bases in the second inning, but Miller got No. 9 batter Jackie Wilson For the British author, see . Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American soul and R&B singer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Career Wilson first came in the music business in his native Detroit. to pop out. Carson got two runners on in the third inning, but Miller struck out Paulina Nihipali. Carson scored its run in the fifth inning, cutting the lead in half when Christina Schallig led off with a single and scored on Ashley Ventura's single to center. 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) answered in the bottom of the inning Noun 1. bottom of the inning - the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat bottom inning, frame - (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat with two more runs. Enea and Kelly Oswald singled to begin the inning. Caplan sacrificed both over to second and third and No. 8 batter Shasta Lionetti drove in both with a single to left field. ``That really gave us more confidence,'' Enea said. ``Shasta has been a very clutch hitter n. 1. (Baseball) a batter who hits safely more frequently when men are on base or the team is behind in the score. Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market. - Bankroft. this year, she always seems to get those hits.'' Miller (21-3) finished with a four-hitter and six strikeouts. Carson's run was unearned. It was the only run Miller has given up in four postseason victories. Enea was 2 for 4 with a run and Kelly Oswald was 3 for 3 with a run. The City championship game was originally scheduled to be played Tuesday, but had to be moved back eight days because UCLA is hosting an NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Super Regional over Memorial Day weekend. --San Pedro 3, Banning 0: Perilini Koria hit a two-run home run, her seventh of the year, in the bottom of the first as San Pedro cruised to its third victory over Marine League rival Banning this season. --Eagle Rock 6, Bravo 1: Diana Garcia was 2 for 3 with two doubles and two 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 Eagle Rock (19-5) defeated Bravo to advance to the Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. bracket championship. Eagle Rock will play Venice, an 18-0 winner over Franklin in the other Invitational semifinal, in the championship game June 1 at UCLA. Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: El Camino Real catcher Francesca Enea gets a force out at home plate before Carson's Andrea Honrada can slide in during the fourth inning in the City semifinals. Photo by John McCoy/Staff Photographer |
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