SOUTHERN SECTION SOFTBALL: CAMARILLO SCRAPS OUT WIN BATEMAN'S HEROICS LEAD SCORPIONS TO NEXT ROUND.Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Special to the Daily News CAMARILLO -- Katy Bateman needed just one brief moment to gather herself, and from that standpoint, being at the bottom of a dogpile was not a good place. But as inconveniences go, it was a small price to pay for the thrilling culmination of Camarillo High's wild 5-4 eight-inning Southern Section Div.I quarterfinal 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' victory Thursday against RiversidePoly. The Scorpions (28-3) will make their fourth semifinal appearance in five years Tuesday, when they play at Pacifica of Garden Grove Garden Grove, city (1990 pop. 143,050), Orange co., S Calif., a suburb of Long Beach and Los Angeles, on the Santa Ana River; founded 1877, inc. 1956. Many of its residents work in nearby aerospace and defense installations, and there is light manufacturing. (27-5). ``It was so exciting, you just didn't know what was going on,'' Bateman said. ``It was all a blur.'' After squandering squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. a 3-0 lead in the seventh, Camarillo found itself two outs away from elimination when pinch-runners Natasha Soedjadi and Bateman scored the tying and winning runs on a Poly error. Garen Garza started the inning with a one-out double, and Lindsey Dean followed with an infield single. With pinch-runners Bateman and Soedjadi at first and third, Amy Shadinger reached on 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. grounder to Poly shortstop Morgan Stuart, who tried unsuccessfully to throw behind the lead runner Soedjadi at third. Pandemonium Pandemonium Milton’s capital of the devils. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] See : Confusion Pandemonium chief city of Hell. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] See : Hell ensued moments later, when Lindsey Pierce made contact on a 1-2 pitch, hitting a bouncer to shortstop Stuart, who threw high to home trying to force the speedy Soedjadi. Bateman scored when she noticed the ball got away. ``It was going to be a close play,'' Camarillo coach Jack Willard said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if (Soedjadi would) have made it or not, but (Stuart) had to hurry. She's a great player for them, but boy, when that ball kicked away that was a real good thing.'' Dean (21-2) pitched a complete game, striking out 10 batters and allowing one earned run earned run n. Baseball A run scored without the aid of an error, used in computing earned run averages. Noun 1. earned run - a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team on sixhits, two walks and two hit batsmen. She was 3for4 with a double. The Scorpions committed three errors - two in the three-run seventh and one in the eighth. Catcher Annissa Lagos kept Camarillo in the game with two outstanding defensive plays: scooping a ball in the dirt to get a force out with the based loaded and no outs in the eighth, and taking a strong throw from left fielder Hannah Klein and applying a sweeping tag on tag on Verb to add at the end of something: a throwaway remark, tagged on at the end of a casual conversation Verb 1. a Poly runner attempting to score the go-ahead run on a two-out single in the seventh. After Poly scored the go-ahead run in the eighth, Dean left the bases loaded with no outs, retiring the next three batters on the force at home and twostrikeouts. ``Everyone contributed all the way around,'' Dean said. ``Whether it was getting a key hit or cheering in the dugout dugout: see canoe. , everybody did their part.'' gideon.rubin@dailynews.com 818-713-3607 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Camarillo High's Katy Bateman slides in safely for the winning run against Riverside Poly. David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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