DAY IN SPORTS: SAUGUS CAN'T SOLVE TOP-RANKED PACIFICA.Byline: Daily News The Saugus High 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 got the showdown it wanted Friday by facing Pacifica of Garden Grove Garden Grove, city (1990 pop. 143,050), Orange co., S Calif., a suburb of Long Beach and Los Angeles, on the Santa Ana River; founded 1877, inc. 1956. Many of its residents work in nearby aerospace and defense installations, and there is light manufacturing. , the top-ranked team in Student Sports' National Fab 50 poll. Unfortunately for Saugus, the result didn't go exactly as planned, as Brittany Weil recorded 11 strikeouts to help Pacifica preserve a 4-2 victory in a winner's-bracket game at the Tournament of Champions in Bullhead bullhead, common name for several species of fish. See catfish; sculpin. bullhead Any of several species of North American freshwater catfish in the genus Ictalurus, valued as food and sport fishes. Bullheads are related to the channel catfish (I. City, Ariz. Tiffany Huff huff - To compress data using a Huffman code. Various programs that use such methods have been called "HUFF" or some variant thereof. Opposite: puff. Compare crunch, compress. went 2 for 3 with a double, giving her eight hits in nine tournament at-bats, including three home runs. Stacey Boswell doubled and Ashley Arnett (3-1) struck out six for Saugus (4-1). GIRLS' SWIMMING --Thousand Oaks 136, Moorpark 34: Vanda Gyuris doubled in the 100-yard butterfly (1 minute 1.28 seconds) and 200 freestyle (2:06.60) for visiting 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. (2-0, 1-0). BOYS' SWIMMING --Thousand Oaks 115, Moorpark 55: Ian Haga, Bob Howe and Hank Yan each won two events for visiting Thousand Oaks (2-0, 1-0). Haga doubled in the 100-yard butterfly (54.60 seconds) and 200 freestyle (1:54.33), Howe swept the 50 and 100 freestyles (22.14 and 51.18), and Yan was victorious in the 100 backstroke (59.52) and 200 individual medley (2:03.62). CAPTION(S): box Box: PRIME-TIME PLAYERS |
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