SOFTBALL NOTEBOOK: CANYON COACH LEARNS WHOLE NEW GAME.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 Canyon High 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' coach James Hanger knew this season would be a learning experience. As a former collegiate baseball player, however, he didn't think the jump into softball would be filled with so many surprises. ``It's quite a bit different than baseball,'' the first-year coach said. ``I had the opportunity to coach all different sorts of sports here, but I wanted to try softball and build my own program here. ``But I've found that to build something where your team is winning every year takes a lot of work and a lot more learning on my part.'' Hanger played baseball at Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. Webster University Webster today operates as an independent, comprehensive, non-denominational university with campus locations around the world. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs in a wide array of disciplines, including the liberal arts, fine and performing arts, teacher education, business in St. Louis. Before that, he won a Missouri state championship at Mansfield High in 1995. Canyon is 6-11 this season and 0-2 in the Foothill league. It hosts Saugus at 3:15 p.m. today and travels to Burbank on Thursday for a 3:15 p.m. game at McCambridge Park. Jen Francis has pitched well for Canyon, but the offense has produced only one run in two league games. ``We've hit the ball hard but haven't pushed runs across,'' Hanger said. ``We were only down 1-0 to Hart through six innings and if we could've pushed a run across earlier in the game, it could've been an entirely different story.'' --Valencia focused: Valencia is playing some of its best softball of the year, but coach Donna Lee Donna Lee is a bebop jazz standard itself based on the chord changes of the traditional jazz standard "(Back Home Again in) Indiana".[1] It is named after the now-obscure bassist Donna Lee. said her team has learned a valuable lesson about staying focused for each opponent. ``We can't look to tomorrow,'' Lee said. ``I think that's what we did when we lost to Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. and Quartz Hill. We were looking down the road at playing Hart in the finals (of the Hart tournament) and not taking one game at a time.'' Since those losses at the end of March, Valencia has won eight in a row, including the prestigious Best of the West tournament in Santa Maria Santa Maria, city, Brazil Santa Maria (sän`tə mərē`ə), city (1991 pop. 217,592), Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil. It is a major railroad terminus and the site of an important military base. last week. The Vikings play at Burroughs of Burbank today at 3:15 p.m. and host Saugus on Thursday at 3:15 p.m. --Add Valencia: With senior catcher Jaisa Creps and senior shortstop Ashley Herrera committed to play for 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 next season, the recruiting attention has shifted to junior pitcher Christina Ross, who is already receiving more recruiting letters than she can count. Ross has benefited from playing with Creps and Herrera and is being heavily recruited by UCLA and some of the same schools who sought the two seniors this season. |
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