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PLAYER OF YEAR CULVER A REAL HIT KAVANAGH AGAIN GETS COACHING HONOR.


Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer

A.V. All-Area Baseball Player of the year Calvin Culver Sr., OF, Quartz Hill

Culver worked diligently on his hitting the past year and it helped him stand out even in a lineup loaded with sluggers. He was selected Golden League MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip.  and Southern Section Div. III Player of the Year.

Culver batted .539 with 38 RBIs, a league-high 10 home runs, 21 walks, a 1.011 slugging percentage In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (abbreviated SLG) is the most popular measure of the power of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats:  and 44 runs scored en route to a Southern Section championship. He finished the season with a 16-game hitting streak In baseball, a hitting streak refers to the consecutive number of official games in which a player gets at least one base hit. Games in which a player does not have any official at bats due to walks, or sacrifice bunts, or being hit by a pitch, are ignored (neither break the streak , including a 4-for-4 performance in the Div. III final.

Culver, a versatile athlete who also starred as the quarterback of the Rebels football team, committed to play baseball at San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  State and was a 49th-round draft pick of the Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twins are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Twins have played in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. .

Quartz Hill's Aaron Kavanagh was named the Southern Section Div. III Coach of the Year, making him the section's first coach to earn coach of the year honors in consecutive years with different teams. He earned the honor this time for guiding Quartz Hill to its first Southern Section championship, the first by an Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming.

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 area large-school team.

The Rebels, who won a share of their fifth consecutive Golden League title, finished 24-5. They had one of the most dominant offenses in 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, , posting a .439 team batting average batting average
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A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks.

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 and 38 home runs.

Brett Schaeffing, Sr., C, Quartz Hill: Solid defensively in addition to hitting .409 with eight home runs and 38 RBIs.

Matt Castro, Sr., IF, Lancaster: Batted team-high .488 with 35 RBIs en route to first team All-Southern Section Div. III honors.

Kyle Harris, Sr., IF, Quartz Hill: Batted team-high .544, including 11 hits and six RBIs in five playoff games.

Eric Freund, Jr., IF, Highland: Ranked second in Golden League with nine home runs.

Chase Tigert, Sr., IF/P, Quartz Hill: First team All-Southern Section Div.

III selection batted .505 with team-high 39 RBIs.

Matt Arrington, Sr., IF, Littlerock: First-team All-Golden League player led Lobos to first playoff berth.

Trevor Bloom, Jr., OF, Palmdale: Batted Golden League-best .646 with 52 RBIs and 1.108 slugging percentage.

Tyreace House, Sr., OF, Palmdale: Versatile Atlanta Braves draftee hit .521 with 35 stolen bases.

Matt Hutchison, Sr., OF/P, Quartz Hill: Hit .432 in addition to being ace of pitching staff.

Dylan Lightell, Sr., U, Rosamond: First team All-Southern Section Div. VI player led Roadrunners to semifinals.

James Smith, Sr., P, Boron boron (bōr`ŏn) [New Gr. from borax], chemical element; symbol B; at. no. 5; at. wt. 10.81; m.p. about 2,300°C;; sublimation point about 2,550°C;; sp. gr. 2.3 at 25°C;; valence +3. : Went 11-2 with 105 strikeouts and 1.78 ERA to earn Desert Mountain League MVP for third consecutive year.

Michael Tonkin, So, P Palmdale: Falcons' all-league ace went 9-3 with 2.33 ERA.

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