DAY IN SPORTS: T.O. HOLDS OFF ROYAL.Byline: Daily News Every time the 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. High baseball team has needed a lift, Brian Bird has been there to provide his teammates with a clutch play. And Wednesday was no different. The senior pitcher struck out Tyler Diamond with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh to end the game and give the host Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. a 4-3 victory over Royal of 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. in a 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. contest. With the victory, Thousand Oaks (16-9, 10-4) clinched a share of the league title with Moorpark, which defeated Agoura 4-1 on Wednesday. Bird finished with an eight-hitter and seven strikeouts to improve his record to 7-2 on the season. His counterpart, Clayton Edwards, also went the distance, giving up six hits and striking out eight. PREP BASEBALL Golden League --Palmdale 6, Quartz Hill 5: Despite the loss at home, Quartz Hill clinched at least a share of the league title, its third in a row. The Rebels (16-9, 11-4) could clinch the championship outright with a victory over Palmdale in the regular-season finale Friday and become the first program since 1975 to win the league title three consecutive years. PREP 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' Mission League --Chaminade 4, Alemany 1: First-place Chaminade of West Hills (19-7-1, 9-1) ruined Alemany of Mission Hills' hopes of finishing second with the victory at home. --Harvard-Westlake 3, Louisville 0: Shelly Madick pitched a three-hitter with six strikeouts and was 3 for 3 with a home run, double 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 for host Harvard-Westlake (18-9, 7-3). |
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