THIS WEEK; RIVALRY WILL HEAT UP FAST.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer 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 Westlake highs are more than just cross-town rivals this week. The schools have their first meeting of the spring sports season, and 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. title implications are involved as 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. and Warriors are among the top teams in multiple sports. Thousand Oaks' softball team survived tough contests against Simi Valley and Newbury Park last week and looks to remain undefeated in league. To get first place to themselves, though, the Lancers have to overcome Westlake's Erin Voeltz, who pitched three shutouts last week. The teams play today at Thousand Oaks. On Wednesday, it's the baseball and boys' tennis teams' turn to play for first. Defending Marmonte tennis champion Westlake enters the week undefeated, led by senior Alex Yaftali, who is ranked in the USTA's 18-and-under top 20. Thousand Oaks counters with last year's Marmonte MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. and Southern Section singles champion Phil Sheng sheng (Chinese; “sage” or “saint”) In Chinese belief, a mortal who attains extraordinary or supernatural powers by self-cultivation and serves as a model for others. Confucius used the term to refer to exemplary rulers of the past. . The other sports can't come close to matching the rivalry between the baseball teams, who play at 3 p.m. at Thousand Oaks. Intensity has always been high between the two, but when a late-season forfeit against the Lancers cost Westlake a share of the league title, the desire to prove themselves on the field increased. Westlake's pitching and abundance of contact hitters make up for depleted de·plete tr.v. de·plet·ed, de·plet·ing, de·pletes To decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out. [Latin d power and gave the Warriors (8-0, 2-0) four wins in five days last week, including a championship in the Daily News Invitational. Thousand Oaks (7-1, 2-0) has one of the region's deepest pitching staffs, led by UCLA-bound right-hander Chris Cordeiro, but has also seen a surge in its offense. |
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