SOFTBALL BEAT AROUND THE LEAGUES.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 --Foothill: Hart of Newhall's Megan Allen is having her finest season, batting .450 with 13 runs scored. --Golden Highland of Palmdale defeated Lancaster 5-3 Tuesday to go one game up on the Eagles for second place. But Highland needs to win today against first-place Quartz Hill to stay there. Lancaster must defeat Littlerock today and hope for a Highland loss. ... Palmdale will not make the playoffs, but that doesn't diminish good seasons from Rebecca Zapata (.391, five doubles), Jessi Daughtry (.355, four doubles) and Johanna Illejay (.329). --Pacific: The brothers Kohlmeier will coach against each other today when Glendale and Hoover of Glendale play for second place. Kris is the coach of Glendale and Kirt is the coach at Hoover, which won the first meeting 8-2 in 14 innings. --Pacific View: Camarillo clinched the league title with an 8-1 victory over Rio Mesa of Oxnard on Tuesday. Camarillo junior shortstop Cambria Miranda and Rio Mesa senior Ginger Ayala are tied for the area lead with 11 doubles. --Rio Hondo: La Canada has won 52 of its past 53 league games. It is ranked seventh in Southern Section Div. IV and got a lift this week when cleanup hitter In baseball, the cleanup hitter is the hitter who bats fourth in the lineup. Strategy Cleanup hitters often have the most power on the team and are typically the team's best all-around hitter; their job is to "clean up the bases", hence the name. Lana Sanfilippo returned from an injured elbow. Without her, teams were pitching around junior Ciri Bryan (.534). KEEPING TABS The NCAA Division I softball championships begin today at eight regional sites. Several former area players will be trying to earn a trip to the Women's College World Series The Women's College World Series (WCWS) is the final portion of the NCAA Women's Softball Tournament for college softball in the United States. The tournament is conducted in an eight-team, double-elimination format. , May 22-26, in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm . To find out where teams will be playing, go to www.ncaasports.com. The list includes Maureen LeCocq (Chaminade of West Hills, Stanford), Melissa Coogan (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:
LIU Long Island University (New York) LIU Line Interface Unit LIU Lightguide Interconnection Unit (AT&T) LIU Laugh It Up ), Sonia Zapata (Canyon, LIU), Jaclyn Holden (Saugus, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. ), Cindy Muran (Newbury Park, Northwestern), Mackenzie Vandergeest (La Reina La Reina (Spanish: "The queen") is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It consistently ranks in the top five communes with the best quality of life in the Metropolitan Region. of Thousand Oaks, Arizona), Christina Enea (El Camino Real, Oklahoma), Alana Mendoza (Camarillo, Oregon State), Beth Boskovich (Camarillo, Oregon), Lindsey Kontra (Hart of Newhall, Oregon), Amanda Oleson (Agoura, Washington), Ashlie D'Errico (Highland, Pacific), Jessica Sharron (Thousand Oaks, Notre Dame), Melinda Moulden (Crescenta Valley, Michigan), and Amanda Fortune (Hart, Illinois). ... In the junior college ranks, former Burroughs of Burbank standout Kristin Carr finished her freshman season at Glendale College with the highest batting average (.481) in Southern California. She was a first-team All-Western State Conference selection. WHO'S HOT --Kat Walsh, Granada Hills: The junior pitcher is becoming a mainstay here. This week, she extended her no-hit innings streak to 27 with a no-hitter against South Gate in the first round of the City Section playoffs Tuesday. --Chanel Roehner, Simi Valley: The junior is a teammate of Walsh's on their summer travel team and seems to be following her lead. Roehner allowed six hits and struck out three as Simi Valley won its first Marmonte league title since 1994. --Katelyn Miller, Camarillo: The freshman designated hitter is leading the large-school Southern Section teams in home runs in only 34 at-bats after being called up from junior varsity midway through the season. --Nichole Mears, Royal: She went 3 for 3 with a home run, triple and single in a 6-2 victory over Peninsula of Palos Verdes on Saturday, then drove in her team's only run against Simi Valley on Tuesday. --Jordan McPherson, Royal: She was the hard-luck loser of Tuesday's game against Simi Valley, giving up only four hits, three of which were infield singles. --Jennifer Curtier, Quartz Hill: The senior first baseman has the area's highest slugging percentage at .954. --Bianca Mejia, Sylmar: Freshman shortstop hit her 13th home run of the season in a 6-5 loss to Verdugo Hills of Tujunga on Tuesday. She is tied with Verdugo Hills' Laura Hovestreydt for the area lead. --Shelly Madick, Harvard-Westlake: Junior pitched a one-hitter in 1-0 victory over Chaminade of West Hills and a two-hitter in 2-0 victory over Louisville of Woodland Hills. She also went 3 for 6 with 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 and a run scored. CAPTION(S): photo, 5 boxes Photo: CHANEL ROEHNER Simi Valley Box: (1) Daily News TOP 10 (2) SEVEN-DAY FORECAST (3) Game of the Week: Granada Hills at San Fernando, today at 2:30 p.m. (4) STANDINGS (5) WHO'S HOT (see text) |
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