OREGON OVERWHELMED PALMDALE VICTORIOUS.Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Special to the Daily News PALMDALE -- There is pressure that comes with being a heavy favorite, and additional pressure that comes with being a defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del tÃtulo defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre . The Antelope Valley's defending World Series champion District 51 Regional Big League All Star softball team is facing both, but -- by all accounts -- is feeling neither. The team's relaxed approach was a key factor Saturday in a 10-0 victory over Oregon's District 1 team in a Western Regional Tournament opener for both teams. The District 51 team was scheduled to play Northern California's District 4 team later in the day. The Antelope Valley-based District 51 Divisional team, which qualified for the tournament by winning the 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, championship last week, lost Saturday to Arizona 1-0 in eight innings. The Western Regional champion advances to Kalamazoo, Mich, for the Aug. 14-19 Big League World Series. The District 51 is keeping things easy by design, under a directive from its coaches, manager Walt Patison said. ``We were way loose today,'' said District 51 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 Kelsie Blankenmeyer, a former Quartz Hill standout who now plays for Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. and is among seven District 51 returnees. ``We're trying to take all the pressure off and just have a good time. We knew what to expect since we've been doing this a long time and we're just trying to have fun.'' Said pitcher Jessie Dunn: ``I wasn't even thinking about it. I was just excited to be out there.'' District 51 took advantage of four Oregon errors -- all in the first two innings -- to take a 4-0 lead. Brooke Stix (AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C , Quartz Hill) had a two-run single and Rebecca Zapata (Palmdale) had an 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 double in a three-run inning in the top of the first. Alaina Devenney (Quartz Hill) beat out an infield hit Infield hit is when a ball doesn't go outfield (stays infield), but neither the batter nor any of the runners are put out. If the batter and the runners reach safely due to an error, it is not considered an infield hit. in the third, starting a three-run inning that broke the game open for District 51. Devenney and Stix each had three hits, and Zapata was 2 for 4 with a solo homer in the seventh. Dunn (1-0), a former Antelope Valley High flamethrower flamethrower, mechanism for shooting a burning stream of liquid or semiliquid fuel at enemy troops or positions. Primitive types of flamethrowers, consisting of hollow tubes filled with burning coals, sulfur, or other materials, came into use as early as the 5th cent. who now pitches for Dixie State (St. George, Utah St. George is a city located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Utah, and the county seat of Washington County, Utah.GR6 It is the principal city of and is included in the St. George, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. ), struck out nine batters in four innings of one-hit ball. Johanna Ilejay (Palmdale), who started at shortstop, threw three innings of one-hit ball after switching positions with Dunn in the fifth. Dunn contributed to the shutout defensively at shortstop in the sixth, making a great backhand play in the hole and throwing out Oregon's Katie Miller trying to score from third on a Kayla MacKinnon grounder. gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Palmdale's Johanna Ilejay and teammates give high-fives to Oregon players after Palmdale's 10-0 victory Saturday. (2 -- coor) Brooke Stix of Palmdale District 51 All Stars catches a dog that delayed Saturday's game. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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