ROYAL TRIO LEADS EAST ONE-TIME RIVALS NOW TEAMMATES.Byline: Sean Ceglinsky Staff Writer There will be plenty of the region's top baseball players on hand for the 29th annual Bernie Milligan All-Star game An all-star game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their sports league. The players are often chosen by a popular vote of fans of the sport and the game often occurs at the halfway point of the regular season, although this is not the case for some all-star games , including several of the best that Ventura County has to offer. Phil Boscarino, D.J. Smith and Clayton Edwards of Royal, Bryan Anderson
Bryan Anderson (born March 30, 1980) is an American football offensive guard. He was a seventh round pick (261 overall) by the Chicago Bears in the 2003 NFL Draft. and Ben Orloff 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. , as well as Moorpark's Brett Hunter will put aside their 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. rivalries and compete as teammates for the West on June 11 at Cal State Northridge's Matador matador In bullfighting, the principal performer, who works the capes and attempts to dispatch the bull with a sword thrust between the shoulder blades. Most of the techniques used by modern matadors were established in the 1910s by Juan Belmonte (b. 1894–d. Field. ``You go against one another for so long and then you're on the same side at the end. Playing on the same team with these guys is a fitting way to finish our high school careers,'' Edwards said. ``It's the icing on the cake.'' Royal (25-4) culminated one of its best seasons in school history with a 5-4 loss to Canyon Springs in the Southern Section quarterfinals. Edwards was largely, but not solely, responsible for the success. The 6-foot-3, 180-pound right-hander finished 10-1, with two saves, a 1.65 ERA and 66 strikeouts in 72 innings. Edwards will pitch for UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. next season. While Edwards provided the pitching, Smith and Boscarino supplied the offense for Royal. The UC Riverside-bound Smith led the team in home runs (7), slugging percentage (.854) and was second in average (.438). He pitched from time to time, played some first base and finished with 37 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 . Boscarino, who has received recruiting interest from UC Riverside and Loyola Marymount, was a consistent player. He batted a team high .452, with 46 hits - 20 for extra bases. The shortstop opened the season with a six-game hitting streak - 12 hits in 22 plate appearances - and followed up with a 15-game streak to close out the year. Boscarino went hitless in just four games all season. ``I worked hard to get to this point. I think we all did,'' Boscarino said. ``It's going to be a great experience to play with all these guys as well as the great players on the East team.'' Anderson was by the far the best player for the Pioneers (16-12) and Orloff - a shortstop - was a more-than-adequate complement, though the team struggled in league play and missed the playoffs one year after winning the Div. II title. ``It was a goal of mine to make the (All-Star team) at the beginning of the season,'' Anderson said. ``It's an honor. There's a lot of great players who have played in the game and have gone on to be successful at the major-league level.'' Anderson could be next. One of the top catching prospects in the nation, there's a good chance he could end up being selected in the early to mid rounds in Tuesday's Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. amateur draft, according to several scouting services. ``The draft is unpredictable,'' Anderson said. ``I'm going to be sitting by the phone and waiting to see what happens. It's been my dream to play in the major leagues ever since I started playing baseball.'' Hunter, who'll play at Pepperdine next year, transformed from a solid catcher into a dazzling pitcher in just one year. After dislocating his right kneecap kneecap (patella), saucer-shaped bone at the front of the knee joint; it protects the ends of the femur, or thighbone, and the tibia, the large bone of the foreleg. The kneecap is embedded in the tendon tissue of the quadriceps femoris, a large thigh muscle. as a sophomore and playing on the junior varsity team For the American rock band, see . In sports, usually at the high school and college levels, members of a team who are not the main players in a competition (such as a football or basketball game) are called junior varsity players. as a junior while learning his new craft, Hunter ended up on the mound as a senior with a fastball that clocked above 90 mph. ``It's going to be an incredible experience,'' Hunter said of playing in the all-star game. ``I'm finally going to have a chance to be on the same team as guys like Anderson and Boscarino instead of playing against them. It's going to be a lot of fun.'' Sean Ceglinsky, (818) 713-3607 sean.ceglinsky(at)dailynews.com 29TH ANNUAL BERNIE MILLIGAN DAILY NEWS ALL-STAR BASEBALL Time: 2 p.m., Saturday, Cal State Northridge. Also: Home run derby This is about the Major League Baseball contest. For the 1959 television show of the same name, see Home Run Derby (TV series). The Home Run Derby is an event played prior to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. at 12:30 p.m. Tickets: Children 12 and under, $3; Adults, seniors, students, $5. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Simi Valley' Ben Orloff is one of several local players on the Bernie Milligan East All-Star team. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer Box: 29TH ANNUAL BERNIE MILLIGAN DAILY NEWS ALL-STAR BASEBALL (see text) |
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