PREP SOFTBALL NOTEBOOK: HIGHLAND HITS ITS STRIDE, SURGES TO 1ST PLACE.Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Special to the Daily News PALMDALE - Not much was expected from Highland High's 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 after a 1-4 start. Then when the Bulldogs finally started winning, their doubters attributed it to a pedestrian schedule. These days, nobody is taking Highland lightly. Highland last week upset prohibitive Golden League favorite Quartz Hill 3-1 in eight innings to move into first place in the league. The Bulldogs (7-4 overall, 4-0 Golden) solidified their position with a 19-8 thrashing thrashing: see threshing. Excessive paging in a virtual memory computer. If programs are not written to run in a virtual memory environment, the operating system may spend excessive amounts of time swapping program pages in and out of the disk. of Knight on Tuesday, their sixth consecutive victory. Highland coach Dan Morrow said it took time for chemistry to develop on a team that's made up primarily of newcomers up from the junior-varsity squad. "We got off to a slow start and took some time for the kids to gel, but we're really starting to play well now," Morrow said. Contributors for Highland include junior pitcher Merissa De Lima de Lima or d'Lima is a Portuguese surname. It is also a Spanish name meaning 'of Lima' de Lima is either:
n. Baseball 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. Noun 1. ), junior 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 Stephanie Parker (.417 average), junior shortstop Noel Luongo (.395), and senior outfielder Aimee D'Errico (.303). De Lima pitched a complete game against Quartz Hill, striking out seven and allowing one run on six hits and one walk. Highland's victory over Quartz Hill was important from a confidence standpoint, Morrow said. "The girls understood the importance of it, they understood it was their first chance to play somebody that people couldn't say, `That was a nobody,"' Morrow said. Little things: Rosamond coach Laney Eubanks believes all the little things her team works on in practices are starting to make a big difference. In their first six nonleague games, in which the Roadrunners went 2-4, their play was characterized by sloppy defense, erratic pitching and hitters unable to advance baserunners. Rosamond is off to a surprising 2-0 start in High Desert League play because of improvements in its play. "All the little things we've worked on in practice are starting to come around," she said. She cited her team's 7-1, nine-inning, league-opening victory April 4 over previously undefeated Desert, in which the Roadrunners pushed across the tying run in the seventh and broke the game open with a six-run ninth. They built on that momentum in their next league game, scoring seven runs in the first inning of a 17-1 victory April 7 over Mojave. Rosamond has two pitchers with different looks: freshman Cassie Benson (3-2, 2.87), a hard-throwing left-hander, and senior Lauren Daily (1-4, 4.30), a control-oriented right- hander. Senior Sarah Grimes Grimes is a surname, that is believed to be of a Scandinavian decent and may refer to
Eubanks attributes Rosamond's turnaround in part to players in a wide age range learning to play together. Rosamond (4-6, 2-0) looks to challenge Kern Valley of Lake Isabella Lake Isabella is a man-made earthen reservoir in Kern County, California that consists of a main and auxiliary dam. It was formed in 1953 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Kern River at the junction of its two forks at Whiskey Flat. and Frazier Mountain Frazier Mountain is a mountain (or peak) that is located near Frazier Park, California and Lake of the Woods, California to the north. Frazier Mountain is 8,026 feet (2446 m) of Lebec for what would be its first league title. "We're kind of putting it all together," Eubanks said. "A lot of games we just weren't getting big hits with runners on base, but now we're starting to score runs in bunches." Unpredictable: It's tough to get a good read on Paraclete. After playing arguably ar·gu·a·ble adj. 1. Open to argument: an arguable question, still unresolved. 2. That can be argued plausibly; defensible in argument: three arguable points of law. their best game in an Olympic League-opening 1-0 upset of Maranatha of Pasadena, which had won 15 of its first 16 games, the Spirits (7-6, 1-1) stumbled Tuesday in a 6-0 loss to L.A. Baptist of North Hills. "We were totally focused and mentally prepared for Maranatha, but we were not at all focused against LAB," Paraclete coach Margaret Neill said. "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. where their heads were at." gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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