MARAUDERS HAVE HISTORY IN THEIR FAVOR FOR OPENER.Byline: Kirby Lee Special to the Daily News 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 College's softball players hope history will be on their side when they face Pasadena City College today in the first round of the State Southern Regionals at Palomar College The Palomar Community College District's facilities improvement measure, Proposition M, was passed by 57% of voters in the November 8, 2006 General Election. As a result, the $694 million provided by the measure, as well as over $200 million in matching funds from the State and an . The teams have met four times over the past three years in postseason play, and Antelope Valley holds the edge. Last season, Antelope Valley eliminated Pasadena from the playoffs. In the 1993 playoffs, the Marauders defeated Pasadena in the regionals. In 1994, Pasadena's 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. knocked Antelope Valley out of the playoffs. This season, Pasadena, the South Coast Conference runner-up, has been paced by freshmen Gina Nasi, Gina Punaro and Trina Ortiz. Nasi, a right-handed pitcher Noun 1. right-handed pitcher - (baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand right-hander baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played , is 17-5 with a 1.17 earned run average earned run average n. Baseball Abbr. ERA A measure of a pitcher's performance obtained by dividing the total of earned runs allowed by the total of innings pitched and multiplying by nine. Noun 1. . Punaro, a shortstop, was the South Coast Conference Player of the Year after stealing a school-record 35 bases and batting .453. Ortiz, a member of the All-Southern California Region team at catcher, is batting .358 and has driven in 30 runs. ``They are always tough,'' said Antelope Valley interim coach Steve Buffalo. ``They are fundamentally sound and going to give you a game.'' Antelope Valley (33-15) and Pasadena (21-11) are seeded eighth and ninth in the four-team double-elimination bracket. The winner will face either top-seeded Palomar (44-8) or No. 16 Cerritos (20-14) in the second round this afternoon. Play will continue Saturday with the winner advancing to the state championship at Ohlone College For the American Indian tribe of the same name, see . Ohlone College is a community college located in Fremont, California. It was established in 1965. It is the main campus of the Ohlone Community College District; there are two satellite locations in Newark, California. in Fremont on May 17-19. The other finalists will be the winners of the three other Southern Region brackets hosted by Hancock, Long Beach and Cypress, the second, third and fourth seeds. ``It doesn't really matter who we play in the first round,'' Buffalo said. ``Our goal is to go up against Palomar.'' Antelope Valley got a glimpse of Pasadena and Palomar in the Antelope Valley Tournament earlier this season. The results were not encouraging. The Marauders were shut out by Pasadena, 4-0, and dropped a 7-5 decision to Palomar in the championship. Antelope Valley, however, has been on a roll in Foothill Conference play, going 10-0 to win its fourth consecutive title. Cindy Sims and Angela Davison were selected as the conference's most valuable player and pitcher. Sims, a sophomore shortstop from Quartz Hill High, batted .556 with an on-base percentage of .688 in conference play. Davison (17-8), a freshman from Desert High who will start against Pasadena, was 6-0 with a 0.97 ERA against conference opponents. Sims and Davison were among seven Antelope Valley players named to the All-Foothill Conference first team. Others were second baseman second baseman n. Baseball The infielder who is positioned near and to the first-base side of second base. Noun 1. second baseman - (baseball) the person who plays second base second sacker Natalie Aston, catcher Nelsa Beaston, first baseman Monica Dopson, outfielder Sandy Holm holm n. Chiefly British An island in a river. [Middle English, from Old Norse h and third baseman third baseman n. Baseball The infielder stationed near third base. Noun 1. third baseman - (baseball) the person who plays third base third sacker Shannon Martini. Perhaps more remarkable, however, has been Antelope Valley's success despite the loss of head coach Gene Pagilaro. The ninth-year coach has been on medical leave for most of the season because of a back injury. ``The team has done very well with the adversity,'' Buffalo said. ``It was like losing someone in the family, but the team has stayed very focused.'' |
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