DAILY UPDATE.HIGH SCHOOLS Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Three-sport athletes are impressive but common in high school sports. Andre Crenshaw cren·shaw also cran·shaw n. A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. inodorus) having a greenish-yellow rind and sweet, usually salmon-pink flesh. [Origin unknown.] is extraordinary. The Antelope Valley junior added a fourth sport this year. After starting at running back on the football team in the fall and point guard on the basketball team in the winter, Crenshaw is participating in track and field and baseball this spring. Knowing track would be Crenshaw's primary focus, A.V. baseball coach Charles McDaniel has allowed Crenshaw to attend practices late, after track practice, and play only when he has time. Crenshaw has started most games this year in center field. In track, Crenshaw is the state leader in the long jump. - Matthew Kredell Highland Many believed former Highland baseball standout Jason Kubel Jason James "the Future" Kubel (born May 25, 1982 in Belle Fourche, South Dakota) is a professional baseball player who plays in the outfield for the Minnesota Twins. He bats left and throws right. would break into the major leagues this year. Now it appears Kubel's future could be determined by how Minnesota Twins' outfielder Jacques Jones (USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. ) performs this year. Kubel is out for the season with a knee injury, so the Twins re-signed Jones to a one-year, $5 million deal. Jones hit a career-worst .254 last season. If he improves this season, he'll likely leave via free agency, making way for Kubel in left field. - 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. Lancaster Freshman pitcher Heather Sandberg's 3-2 record might not look that impressive, but her 0.86 ERA leads the Golden League. Lancaster has scored just one run in Sandberg's two losses. - Ramona Shelburne Littlerock Although the Lobos are joining the rest of the Golden League schools on spring break this week, swimming coach Derek Kirwan is working with his athletes this week. The boys' 200-yard relay team is closing in on a Southern Section Div. IV consideration time of 1 minute, 42.5 seconds. The boys' team is coming off its first dual-meet victory of the season, a 79-67 win over Knight on March 30. - Erik Boal Palmdale After about two years of planning and construction, Palmdale debuted its new 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' field last week in a victory over Knight. Much of the donations to build the field came from bake sales. The softball team will have sole use of this field. The other facility was a multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective field used by many teams, including practices for the football team. - Matthew Kredell Paraclete The softball team, which hasn't played since March 26, returns to competition at 3 p.m. today in a nonleague game at Louisville of Woodland Hills. Louisville will be the third Mission League opponent Paraclete has played; the Spirits also played Alemany of Mission Hills on March 10 and Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks on March 15. - Erik Boal Quartz Hill The baseball team, which started the week in second place in the Golden League, lost 8-6 to Bishop Amat of La Puente La Puente (lä pwĕn`tē), city (1990 pop. 36,955), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles; laid out 1841, inc. 1956. Primarily residential, the city manufactures hardware, electronics, and paper products. - ranked No. 2 in Div. I - in a pool-play game at the Arcadia tournament. Quartz Hill (7-5), which is 1-1 in the tournament, played league counterpart Lancaster in its final pool-play game and will conclude the tournament today. - Erik Boal |
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