SOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL/SOFTBALL CAPSULES : BASEBALL.Division I Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame (23-4) at 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. (18-5) Summary: Both teams won league championships. Even though Notre Dame is one of region's top teams, it had to advance through the wild-card round when the Knights tied Crespi for the Mission League title and lost the coin toss. The Knights were outhit 7-5 in Tuesday's 2-1 win against Arroyo Grande. Why Thousand Oaks will win: The Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. have good pitching and defense. They pride themselves on mastering the fundamentals and are usually effective playing little ball. Why Notre Dame will win: Power hitting is a rarity for the Lancers, who have just 17 home runs. The Knights also have good pitching. Millikan at Camarillo (20-6) Summary: Camarillo won the inaugural Pacific View League championship and is looking to do better than last year when it was eliminated in the first round. Millikan is the No. 2 team from the Moore League and advanced by beating Hawthorne in a wild-card game Tuesday. Why Camarillo will win: The Scorpions are loaded with power hitters. Spencer Wyman (.462) leads a team that has six batters hitting at least .400. Camarillo also has speed, led by Justin Collins with 20 stolen bases. Why Millikan will win: Camarillo didn't receive much competition during league and suffered a letdown letdown 1. the sudden flush of milk flow that occurs when the calf begins to suck or when milking commences in a properly prepared cow. Depends for its occurrence on the release of oxytocin from the pituitary gland in response to massage of the teats and udder. after clinching the league title. Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. Westlake (18-5-1) at Calabasas (12-12) Summary: Calabasas won the Frontier League The Frontier League, based in Troy, Illinois, is a professional, independent baseball organization located in the Midwestern United States and Western Pennsylvania. It operates mostly in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either. title and is seeded fourth in the division. If it weren't for a forfeit, Westlake would have been Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. champ. The Warriors beat Burroughs 11-5 in a wild-card game Tuesday that was closer than it should have been. Why Westlake will win: No matter who they have in the lineup, the Warriors come through with plenty of hits. Westlake has the playoff experience and is on a mission to return to the division final and forget about its off-field problems. Calabasas couldn't figure out a way to retire Kevin Howard Kevin C. Howard (born June 25, 1981 in Hinsdale, Illinois) is a infielder in Minor League Baseball who plays for the Jacksonville Suns in the Double-A Southern League. when they lost to Westlake earlier in the season. They played in a weak league and are a .500 team. Why Calabasas will win: Pitcher Tony Sulser (7-2) has been getting the job done as a starter and reliever. He had a combined 20 strikeouts and two runs allowed in his last two games. Freshman Justin Segal is available if Sulser gets in trouble. The loss of three players to suspension leaves a shaky field for Westlake, with several players in new positions. Pitching has been inconsistent all season and got thinner when reliever Joey Guy sprained an ankle. The Warriors are known for making wins more difficult than they should be. Division IV Lompoc (12-10-1) at Oak Park (13-6-1) Summary: The Tri-Valley League champion Eagles are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. revenge in a repeat of last year's first-round matchup, which Lompoc won. The Braves received an at-large berth out of the Northern League. Why Oak Park will win: Pitching has gone from being a question mark to the strength of the team. Chemistry is also key for the Eagles, who have several players contributing. Why Lompoc will win: Oak Park lost its leading hitter when third baseman third baseman n. Baseball The infielder stationed near third base. Noun 1. third baseman - (baseball) the person who plays third base third sacker Eric Smintack suffered a broken hand last week. Division V L.A. Baptist (14-6) at Viewpoint (14-6) Summary: Viewpoint has come a long way since being swept by the Knights in a doubleheader early in the season. The Patriots repeated as Liberty League champs and are looking to advance with solid pitching. Arm problems cost L.A. Baptist the Alpha League title. The Knights ended up as the league's No. 3 representative. Why Viewpoint will win: Starter Artin Sedighan (3-0, two saves) is undefeated and didn't face the Knights last time. Senior catcher John Kogel leads is hitting near .500. Why L.A. Baptist will win: Viewpoint's freshman star Bruce Stead twisted a knee and is likely out for the season. A combined nine errors hurt the Patriots in their previous meeting with the Knights. 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' SOUTHERN SECTION First round: Division I All games 3:15 p.m. Long Beach Poly (18-1) at Thousand Oaks (20-8) Summary: The Lancers survived a rocky start to win their last nine league games and finish as co-champions of the Marmonte League. The team is playing its best ball at precisely the right time. The pitching duo of sophomores Nicole Angelo and Sheridan Fowler has been nearly unhittable and the offense, a potent combination of slappers and mashers, has been churning out the runs. Why Thousand Oaks will win: The Lancers have too much offense and pitching to lose to the Jackrabbits. Why L.B. Poly will win: The Lancers are prematurely looking ahead to a second-round matchup with top-seeded Quartz Hill. Arroyo Grande (18-9) at Camarillo (18-7) Summary: This is the time that playing in the Pacific View could hurt the Scorpions. A soft league schedule did little to prepare them for the playoffs. Coach Miki Mangan, however, foresaw that and put together a challenging nonleague schedule. Will it be enough? Why Camarillo will win: The Scorpions are unbeatable at home and Arroyo Grande doesn't have the talent to upset them. Why Arroyo Grande will win: Camarillo could completely collapse. Division III Westlake (18-9) at Calabasas (15-8-1) Summary: The Warriors enter the playoffs with five consecutive losses and were losers in seven of their last nine. Calabasas, meanwhile, stumbled just once in cruising to the Frontier League title. A big question is, which Westlake team will show up? The one that started the season 16-2 or the one that struggled at the end of the regular season? Why Westlake will win: The Warriors right themselves behind the pitching of Erin Voeltz; Tiffany Meadows sparks the offense. They've faced steady, talented competition all season. Why Calabasas will win: Amy Rosson continues her late-season surge that led the Coyotes to the league title. Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. (13-11) at Newbury Park (21-7) Summary: Of all the divisions, this is the one that is the most wide open and the Panthers have the talent to win it. Why Newbury Park will win: Oli Keohohou, Katie Stokx and Cindy Muran will start the fourth-seeded Panthers on their march to the title. Why Culver City will win: The Centaurs turn into Thousand Oaks overnight. Division IV Harvard-Westlake (12-14) at Oak Park (19-4-1) Summary: An intriguing matchup between a team from a powerful league against a school from a small league. Oak Park, co-champion of the Tri-Valley League, dominated it with the exception of 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. . Harvard-Westlake struggled at times in the Mission League, but will its tougher schedule prove it more ready than the Eagles? Why Oak Park will win: The veteran-freshman mix that has produced all season will continue to play to its ability. Why Harvard-Westlake will win: Oak Park's four prominent freshmen could get playoff jitters jitters 'Butterflies' Psychology An episode of nervousness or anxiety that often precedes a public event; jitters is a type of performance anxiety which may affect actors in a stage production–stage fright or soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics . Division V Crossroads (16-8) at La Reina (19-7) Summary: La Reina was co-champion of the Tri-Valley League along with Oak Park, but since they are in different divisions, La Reina enters the playoffs as league champion and a No. 4 seed. Why La Reina will win: The Regents have a balanced offense (Stephanie Hall, Kristen Ward, Mackenzie Vandergeest and Monica Thompson have a combined 93 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 potent pitching duo in Danielle Field and Ward. It should be more than enough to get past the Roadrunners. Why Crossroads will win: Oak Park's offense could sputter. Division VI La Verne La Verne (lə vûrn), city (1990 pop. 30,897), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1906. La Verne, which began as a citrus-processing center, now has varied manufacturing, including electronic components, apparel, hand Lutheran (5-13) at Grace Brethren (17-4) Summary: The Lancers received a gift in drawing weak La Verne Lutheran in the first round but will have to face top-seed 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. in the second. Why Grace Brethren will win: Crystal Roberts will completely overpower o·ver·pow·er tr.v. o·ver·pow·ered, o·ver·pow·er·ing, o·ver·pow·ers 1. To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue. 2. To affect so strongly as to make helpless or ineffective; overwhelm. 3. the Trojans, as she has most of the Lancers' opponents this season. Why La Verne will win: They won't. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Thousand Oaks catcher John Smith and coach Bill Sizemore Bill Sizemore (born June 2, 1951 in Aberdeen, Washington) is a political activist in Clackamas, Oregon, United States. Sizemore has never held elected office, but has nonetheless been a major political figure in Oregon since the 1990s. , right, face Notre Dame today in a first-round playoff game Noun 1. playoff game - one game in the series of games constituting a playoff game - a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours" playoff - any final competition to determine a championship . Tina Gerson/Daily News |
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