COUNTING COUTIN BLESSINGS : EISENBERG IS HIT IN FIELD, SCHOOL.Byline: Bill Schlotter Daily News Staff Writer There have been many success stories in the 18-year history of Canoga Park's Coutin School, principal Rick Pendleton said. Baseball player Ricky Eisenberg is just one of the latest. The senior center fielder ended the Knights' season last week with a .741 batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. , 35 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 39 stolen bases. And his father, Howie, said the success on the diamond is reflective of like success in the classroom and in his son's personal life. Coutin is a non-public, state-certified, special-education school that specializes in helping its 80-plus students overcome learning disabilities and emotional difficulties, Pendleton said. ``We take students who have average or above-average intelligence, but who have not fared well in a public setting,'' Pendleton said. ``Right around 70 percent of our seniors go on to college.'' At El Camino Real High School El Camino Real High School (also known locally as "ECR" and by some more recently as "ELCO") is a public secondary school located in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. , Eisenberg struggled with attention-deficit difficulties and a tendency to be hyperactive hy·per·ac·tive adj. 1. Highly or excessively active, as a gland. 2. Having behavior characterized by constant overactivity. 3. Afflicted with attention deficit disorder. , his father said. But he has overcome those problems at Coutin in an environment Pendleton refers to as ``nurturing.'' With a student-staff ratio of 2 to 1 and class sizes from 10 to 12, Coutin students get the extra attention they need to deal with their individual problems. Such attention has paid off for Eisenberg. ``His report card is the best it's ever been,'' Howie Eisenberg said. ``And his relationships are much better.'' His baseball skills are something to behold as well. ``He's probably the best small-schools player in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, ,'' said Knights 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 Steve Boutilier. ``His baseball stats speak for themselves.'' Speak? More like shout. There's the .741 batting average - 40 hits in 54 at-bats. Add 10 walks and you have an on-base percentage of .781. Then there's the 38 runs, 35 RBI, 39 stolen bases, 11 doubles, six triples and four home runs. His worst performance of the season? He went 1 for 3 in the season opener with an RBI and two runs scored. Awwwww. Sometimes lost among the big numbers are the little ones young children. See also: Little : no strikeouts and no errors. Eisenberg is particularly happy with those. ``I'm really proud of the fact that I didn't strike out or make an error this year,'' said the 6-foot-1, 185-pounder. Eisenberg didn't want to say much about his tenure at 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:
But he volunteered an opinion of his new school. ``This is really the first year that I've actually enjoyed going to high school,'' he said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Ricky Eisenberg has batted over .700 and overcome cl assroom struggles at Coutin School. Terri Thuente / Daily News |
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