SOFTBALL BATS A THOUSAND; VALLEY GIRLS FLOCK TO LEAGUE TEAMS.Byline: Peter Hartlaub Daily News Staff Writer The Purple Dragons A list of dragons may refer to one of the following:
There's a crop of new pitchers coming up from the first grade, bat technology keeps improving, and with league expansion this year the team could have four opponents instead of two. Then again, no one told Cory Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. and John Shirilla it would be easy to coach a 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' team for girls younger than 8. ``Girls today - everything has opened up for them,'' Cohen said Saturday. ``They have the same advantages that we did growing up.'' Officials at the Northridge American Softball Association expect 240 girls to sign up this year, up from 200 last year and 140 in 1995. And with more exposure for the sport - softball was in the Olympics Olympics Sports medicine An international competition among (traditionally) nonprofessional athletes trained in a particular summer or winter sport, which is held every 4 yrs in a selected city. See Paralympics, Special Olympics, World Medical Games. in 1996, and there's talk of a professional league - the numbers should keep increasing. The Northridge ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and has teams for girls 6 through 16, and the organization is similar to the boys' Little League games. In 1998, the youngest girls will have umpires for the first time - only one of the changes that co-managers Cohen and Shirilla have been adjusting to. ``We just found out they're going to be drafting players this year,'' Shirilla said. ``It's almost hard to believe: a draft for 7-year-old girls.'' Mike Walper, past president of the Northridge ASA, has a 15-year-old daughter in the league. With help from Title IX rules, which require colleges to spend the same amount of money on women's sports as on men's, she may get a free ride through higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. . ``I thought she was going to be a little girl doing `girl things.' Now she's probably going to get a scholarship, which I never thought about once when she was a little kid,'' Walper said. He says a lot has changed in the last 10 years for girls softball. ``Originally, when I started here, my youngest daughter had to play T-ball with the boys,'' Walper said. ``The girls were almost like social outcasts The Outcasts are a fictional criminal organization from the Digital Anvil/Microsoft game Freelancer. Based on the planet Malta, the Outcasts are the descendants of colonists from the sleeper ship Hispania. .'' Northridge ASA has four leagues for girls - 8-under, 10-under, 12-under and 16-under. League play will start at the end of February and lasts until Memorial Day. Sign-ups will continue today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Northridge ASA, on Devonshire Street between Reseda Boulevard and Wilbur Avenue. For more information, call (818) 712-0365. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) After signing up in the Northridge American Softball Association, Whitney Lirones shows her team jersey to her mother, Kathy. (2) Whitney Lirones, 10, looks at a softball jersey. With her is her brother, Sam (1) (Security Accounts Manager) The part of Windows NT that manages the database of usernames, passwords and permissions. A SAM resides in each server as well as in each domain controller. See PDC and trust relationship. , 11. Phil McCarten/Daily News |
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