SOFTBALL DIV. V: VILLAGE CHRISTIAN SQUEEZES INTO TITLE V. CHRISTIAN 4, PAS. POLY 2.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 IRVINE - Amy Servillo couldn't believe her eyes when she saw the sign. A squeeze bunt bunt: see smut. with the bases loaded? But after stranding two runners at second base with less than two outs earlier in the game, coach Jim Stone figured he'd rather gamble than stand pat and wonder what might have been. Servillo executed the play to perfection Adv. 1. to perfection - in every detail; "the new house suited them to a T" just right, to a T, to the letter , pushing the bunt to the right of Pasadena Poly pitcher Emily Nelson, whose throw home went wide and allowed two runs to score. Poly never recovered and Village Christian emerged with a 4-2 victory in the Southern Section Div. V championship game Friday night at Barber Park. ``We've played that way all year, and it was not the time to change strategy now,'' Stone said. ``I looked down and saw Amy, who is probably one of our two or three best bunters, and I knew I had the right batter at the plate to execute.'' Meghan Hannah scored from third base on the play, and the error by Nelson (27-3) allowed Alex Kinney to score from second base. Village Christian of Sun Valley (22-6) scored two more runs in the inning in·ning n. 1. a. Baseball One of nine divisions or periods of a regulation game, in which each team has a turn at bat as limited by three outs. b. innings (used with a sing. on errors by Poly and a single from Servillo's older sister, Patricia. All told, the Panthers (27-3) committed four errors in the inning. That was more than enough for junior pitcher Lauren Nydam (12-1), who struck out 13 batters BATTeRS (バッターズ) stands for Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey. It is a Japanese project to find asteroids. It is associated with the Japanese Spaceguard Association. Members include Takeshi Urata. and allowed five hits. She fell behind 1-0 in the third inning when she walked leadoff batter Alessandra Giampolo with two outs and gave up 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 to Nelson. ``After we fell behind (1-0 in the third inning), we all just prayed together,'' Nydam said. ``We stayed together as a team and trusted in each other.'' It was the first 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' championship in school history for Village Christian, which is ranked No. 10 by the Daily News and was the top seed in the Div. V playoffs. After the game, Servillo gave an extra assist to her bat on the squeeze play. ``All year, that `Technology' bat I was using has had a little extra oomph in it,'' she said. ``I wasn't trying to push it that hard, but it ended up in the right place.'' Nelson struck out seven. |
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