SOFTBALL : KENNEDY'S DURAZO STILL HAS HEAT.Byline: Daily News Sandra Durazo is at it again. Kennedy High School's senior All-City 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' pitcher, the section leader in strikeouts last season, fanned 16 batters in the No. 10 Cougars' 10-0 season-opening victory over host Grant Thursday in a nonconference game. Durazo, who struck out 237 last season in leading Kennedy to the 4-A Division championship game, finished with a one-hitter. Teammate Carin Garcia had two hits. 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:
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. was 2 for 4 with one 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 for El Camino Real. Lupe Brambilia homered for the Vikings. Granada Hills 17, Hamilton 0: Senior Jennifer Del Real went 3 for 5 with 3 RBI and junior Amy Matthews stuck out six batters in four innings for the Highlanders in a nonconference opener. Canoga Park 9, University 1: Vicky Rodriguez went 2 for 2 with a home run and two RBI as the Hunters won a nonconference opener. Jenny Patillo had 16 strikeouts, including the last eight batters of the game. Poly 24, Fairfax 0: Sophomore Eileen Burmundez had two hits, including a home run, and Mary Casillas had nine strikeouts for the Parrots in a season opener shortened to five innings. North Hollywood 10, Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). 5: Takui Karapogosyn had two doubles and two RBI and Claudia Villa added a two-run home run in the Huskies' seven-run fourth inning in a nonconference opener. Taft 6, Van Nuys 5: Freshman Tera Burton was 2 for 3 and stole home to lead the host Toreadors in a season opener. |
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