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SOFTBALL\'Awesome' Camarillo wins tournament title\CAMARILLO 14, QUARTZ HILL 0.


Byline: Dave Desmond Daily News Staff Writer

To this point in the 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'  season, the toughest challenge Camarillo High School coach Nichole Victoria has faced involves her lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime.  card.

"It's really hard for us to decide who's starting," she said.

With so much depth, it has hardly mattered.

On Saturday, her No. 1 Scorpions routed Quartz Hill 14-0 to secure the Hart tournament championship.

Camarillo (4-0), which defeated perennial City Section power 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:
  • There is an El Camino Real in California; see: El Camino Real (California).
 5-0 in a morning semifinal, excelled without the help of starting catcher Jessica Mendoza Jessica Mendoza (born 11 November 1980) is an American softball player who won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She was a four-time first team All-American at Stanford University from 1999-2002. Mendoza was named Softball player of the year in 2006.  and second baseman second baseman
n. Baseball
The infielder who is positioned near and to the first-base side of second base.

Noun 1. second baseman - (baseball) the person who plays second base
second sacker
 Tommee Payan, both out with injuries. It also lost two more starters midway through the championship, when they departed for a wedding obligation.

The Scorpions relied on something old and something new to leave both opponents blue.

Returning pitchers Melanie Richardson and Cindy Ball continued their dominant pitching. Richardson, who struck out 18 in a first-round no-hitter last week and earned the tournament's most valuable player award, struck out 11 more in a one-hitter against No. 3 El Camino Real (5-1).

Ball followed a 13-strikeout, one-hit performance in the second round with 15 strikeouts and a two-hitter in the title game against the Rebels.

Senior utility player Mandi Comer, a newcomer to the lineup, slugged three home runs in the tournament, including one in each of Saturday's games.

"You can pull anyone off our bench and they will do a great job," said right fielder right fielder
n. Baseball
The player who defends right field.

Noun 1. right fielder - the person who plays right field
outfielder - (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield
 Sarah De Woody, who was 5 for 7 on Saturday with a home run and three 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
.

It has indeed been a team effort for the Scorpions, who charged into one of the area's premier tournaments and left having outscored their opponents 46-0 and outhit them 46-4.

"They are awesome," said Quartz Hill coach Coy Ray, whose team advanced to the final by beating Hart and Highland. "I was really super-impressed with them in every area of the game."
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Mar 10, 1996
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