SOFTBALL NATIONALS: BATBUSTERS BACK IT UP.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 Even the defending national champions get nervous sometimes. At least that's how the Orange County Batbusters' opening-game loss looks in hindsight. With eight seniors bound for Division I colleges, including Valencia High's Jaisa Creps, who will attend UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , the Batbusters repeated as national champions Sunday with a 5-1 victory over the Virginia Shamrocks at the 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 18-under Gold national 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' championships in Salem, Ore. ``I think that game helped get out all of our nerves,'' said Agoura High's Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith (born December 16, 1969 in Rathcoole, County Dublin), now more commonly referred to by her married name, Michelle de Bruin, is an Irish former swimmer. of the loss to the Arizona Hotshots in the opening game of the tournament Tuesday. ``After that we all just relaxed and played the way we are capable of playing.'' Smith was 1 for 2 in the win over the Shamrocks and drove in a run with a fielder's choice field·er's choice n. Baseball A play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing base runner, thus allowing the batter to reach first base safely. Noun 1. in the third inning to put the Batbusters up 2-0. The Shamrocks closed within a run in the fourth and the game stayed close until the top of the seventh when UCLA-bound pitcher Lisa Dodd drove in two runs with a single to left-center field. The victory was the seventh in a row for the Batbusters, who defeated the Worth Firecrackers 3-0 in the winner's bracket final. The Firecrackers (Cambria Miranda/Camarillo and De Ann Young/ Camarillo) were eliminated by the Shamrocks 9-3 in their next game and finished in third place. Behind them in the standings were Gordon's Panthers, who were also eliminated 1-0 by the Shamrocks. Village Christian of Sun Valley pitcher Lauren Nydam took the loss against the Shamrocks, yielding only a home run to Stephanie VanBrakle, the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year at Alabama last season. Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: JAISA CREPS Valencia High product is part of a national-champion team. |
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