SOFTBALL NOTEBOOK: POSITIONING IN LEAGUE AT STAKE.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 The Lancaster and Highland 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' teams have clinched playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. berths, but that doesn't make their game at 3:15 p.m. today at Highland any less important. The winner should finish second in the Golden League, assuming they don't lose Thursday, and should play another second-place finisher in the first round of the playoffs. The loser will finish third play a first-place team in the first round. ``This is very important for getting past the first round of the playoffs,'' Lancaster coach Dean Johnson Dean Elton Johnson (born June 24, 1947) was formerly the majority leader of the Minnesota Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 1982 and represented the 13th Senate District. said. And don't be surprised if the first-place school Lancaster or Highland draw is Foothill League champion Valencia, the area's top-ranked team. That's because the Southern Section committee likes to keep first-round matchups close geographically. Lancaster won 4-3 the last time it played Highland, a game marred by a frightening injury to Highland senior pitcher Nikki Secrease, who suffered a fractured skull when she was hit by a line drive. Expect another high-scoring game today. Lancaster's Lindsey Lane, Katie Cornelison and Melissa Rodriguez have been hitting well, as have Highland's Lauren Tantlinger, Shannon Doepking, Kristin Meter and Bridget Morales. ``We're going to try to score as many as we can and then hold them down,'' Johnson said. ``I think if we play our game we should win.'' Lancaster will be going for its highest finish in the Golden League, and Highland will be trying to finish second for the 10th time in coach Glenda Potts' career. Expect Tara Urbanski to start for Lancaster and Amanda Riley to relieve if needed. Highland will go with Tantlinger for as long as it can. --No-hitters: A no-hitter is supposed to be special, only because it happens so rarely. But recently it seems no-hitters are a normal occurrence. Last week there were five no-hitters, two from Desert Christian senior Amanda Wolfenstein against Mammoth mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. and Silver Valley. The others were thrown by Erica Ricker of Quartz Hill on Tuesday, Kirby Tubb of Boron boron (bōr`ŏn) [New Gr. from borax], chemical element; symbol B; at. no. 5; at. wt. 10.81; m.p. about 2,300°C;; sublimation point about 2,550°C;; sp. gr. 2.3 at 25°C;; valence +3. on Friday and Shane Lotito of Vasquez on Thursday. The glut glut pronounced as rut, slut Vox populi An excess of a service or skilled labor in a particular area. See Physician glut. of no-hitters made the two-hit shutout by Rosamond's Mallory Strickler seem ho-hum. Rosamond (7-13, 3-5) defeated Frazier Mountain Frazier Mountain is a mountain (or peak) that is located near Frazier Park, California and Lake of the Woods, California to the north. Frazier Mountain is 8,026 feet (2446 m) 12-0 on Friday. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Melissa Rodriguez is trying to help the Lancaster softball secure second place in the Golden League, which would be its highest finish ever. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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