YOUTH SOFTBALL: PARK VIEW MOVES OUT OF LOSERS' BRACKET.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Daily News Staff Writer Down but not out, Park View climbed out of the Divisional 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' playoff losers' bracket with its third straight victory, a gutsy guts·y adj. guts·i·er, guts·i·est Slang 1. Marked by courage or daring; plucky. 2. Robust and uninhibited; lusty: "the gutsy . . . 4-3 Senior Little League All-Star win over National City Santana Wednesday night at Jurupa Little League. The 13-14 year-old defending national champions needed to beat San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Southridge twice for the Division title Thursday night. Hillary Degnan and Kim Harrill combined on a five-hitter to pace Park View over Santana, which previously handed Park View its only loss of the tournament. Winner Degnan went five innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. and allowed five hits and four walks. Harrill allowed just one walk over the last two frames for the save. ``Both pitchers did a terrific job,'' manager Dave Patterson David Glenn Patterson (born July 25, 1956 in Springfield, Missouri) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who pitched in 36 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 1979 baseball season. External links
Park View (13-2) scored four runs in the second inning and held on for its third straight win. Ace Kellie Cox and Harrill were the scheduled starters Thursday. ``I never really expected us to keep doing this well,'' said Cox, one of three returning starters (along with catcher Ashlie D'Errico and shortstop Andrea Cabriales) from 1997's national champions. ``I thought we might be down after the first loss. It's been difficult but we keep winning.'' After overpowering o·ver·pow·er·ing adj. So strong as to be overwhelming: an overpowering need for solitude. o its way through the area, district, and sectional tournaments, Park View now is surviving with early rallies and pitching. ``Hillary and Kim both did really well,'' Cox said. |
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