SOFTBALL: VALENCIA WILL HAVE LONG LAYOFF.Byline: GERRY GITTELSON Staff Writer The Southern Section 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' playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. pairings were released Monday, and there was no surprise for Valencia High. The Vikings (28-1), ranked No. 1 in the nation by USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. and Student Sports, received the top seed -- and a first-round bye -- in the Div. I tournament. Valencia, which played its final regular-season game Thursday, will have a 12-day layoff before beginning the postseason next Tuesday in a second- round matchup at home against the Simi Valley-Oxnard winner. It's a long wait for a program that has often been seeded among the top four but has never won a championship, coming the closest with a loss in the 2005 final. This time, the Vikings, led by Michigan-bound pitcher Jordan Taylor (28-0, 0.28 ERA) and a supporting cast that includes five fellow Division I-bound starters, will be ready, coach Donna Lee Donna Lee is a bebop jazz standard itself based on the chord changes of the traditional jazz standard "(Back Home Again in) Indiana".[1] It is named after the now-obscure bassist Donna Lee. promised. "We're respecting everybody and just taking things one game at a time," Lee said. "We've played a tough schedule to try to prepare these girls for any situation. They've played in some big games, so I think they can stay focused." The wild-card round will be Wednesday, and the first round Friday. The first-round bye hurts Taylor's chances for a second consecutive 400-strikeout season. After striking out 416 in 215 innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. as a junior, Taylor has 348 strikeouts in 185 innings. With a maximum of four games remaining, she would need 52 to reach 400 -- an average of 13 per game. Camarillo (27-1), the only team to defeat Valencia this season (a 4-3 victory March 20 in the one game Taylor didn't pitch), is seeded No. 2 and also received a first-round bye. The Scorpions will play host to Trabuco Hills or Esperanza or Anaheim in the second round. Among the intriguing Div. I first-round matchups are Saugus at Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , and Moorpark at Hart of Newhall. In Div. III, Oaks Christian (26-3), led by pitcher/top hitter Taylor Schlopy, is the top seed. The Lions, who have won twotitles and finished as a section runner-up three times since the school opened in 2000-01, will play host Friday to the Lancaster-Burroughs of Burbank wild-card winner. In today's City Section quarterfinal action, five of the remaining eight participants are San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. schools. Second-seeded El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
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