SOFTBALL: WATLEY LEADING UCLA'S CHAMPIONSHIP CHARGE UCLA 2, CSUN 0.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer So just how do you lose the most prolific home run hitter in NCAA history The first game (basketball) played between teams representing different colleges or universities was played on November 6 1869 between Rutgers University and Princeton University, at College Field (now the site of the College Avenue Gymnasium), New Brunswick, New Jersey. and the winningest pitcher in your program's history and still start the season as a near-unanimous preseason No. 1 pick? If you're UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX and you've got three-time first-team All-American Natasha Watley Natasha Watley (born November 27, 1981) is an American professional softball player currently with the USA Softball Women’s National Team.[1] She plays the position of shortstop and first base, and helped her team to win the gold medal for softball at the 2004 on your team, that's how. Watley went 2 for 3 and scored both runs in UCLA's 2-0 victory over Cal State Northridge on Sunday in the Stacy Winsberg Memorial tournament at UCLA. Watley's average is now a gaudy .692. ``Natasha has always been a marquee player for us, but this year she's on a mission (to win a national championship), and it's my job to get everyone else on her page,'' UCLA coach Sue Enquist said. Watley and the three other seniors for UCLA (3-1) are the only class in the Bruins' 25-year history not to win a national championship. She began that mission early Sunday, leading off the game with a perfect slap into the hole at shortstop that didn't even draw a throw from Matadors shortstop Christy Menefee. Watley advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Monique Mejia and scored on Stephanie Ramos' single up the middle despite a strong throw home from Northridge center fielder Christen chris·ten tr.v. chris·tened, chris·ten·ing, chris·tens 1. a. To baptize into a Christian church. b. To give a name to at baptism. 2. a. Bedwell. The Matadors (1-2) escaped further damage when pitcher Jenny Wheeler (0-2) got Toria Auelua to pop out on an inside rise ball and struck out freshman Emily Zaplatosch with a curveball on the outside corner. The Matadors' best opportunity came in the bottom of the sixth, when Jen Dishner singled up the middle off Bruins pitcher Keira Goerl (3-1), one of just two hits Goerl allowed. Dishner advanced to second on Menefee's grounder to second base. That brought up Bedwell, a first team All-Big West Conference pick last year who saved a run in the third inning with a diving catch in center field. Goerl, though, made quick work of her, recording one of her seven strikeouts on three screwballs that broke away from the left-handed Bedwell. Watley scored an insurance run in the top of the seventh after a double off the left-field fence by Ramos. Earlier in the day, the Matadors picked up a 3-2 victory over Loyola Marymount as Jade Abel lined 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 single up the middle to complete a three-run comeback in the seventh inning. --Tribute: The tournament is named for former UCLA and Granada Hills High star Stacy Winsberg, who passed away in 2001 from a cerebral blood clot blood clot n. A semisolid, gelatinous mass of coagulated blood that consists of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in a fibrin network. after a long battle with lung cancer lung cancer, cancer that originates in the tissues of the lungs. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States in both men and women. Like other cancers, lung cancer occurs after repeated insults to the genetic material of the cell. . Winsberg won three national championships at UCLA and a City Section title at Granada Hills in 1980. |
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