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By Andrew Shortall | March 31, 2012
SOUTHEAST GLENDALE — Anything less than a win wasn't going to be acceptable for the Glendale High softball team. The Nitros were reeling from two straight losses when they finally got back on track with a commanding 11-1 win over Los Angeles High at home in the final game of a double-header with the Romans as part of the Lincoln High Tournament Saturday. "We needed this," Glendale Coach Christine Paknik said. "They've got to realize they have to do this every game. It has to happen every inning.
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By Gabriel Rizk, gabriel.rizk@latimes.com | June 16, 2011
NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Quieting the bats of the Crescenta Valley Landry's Minor Baseball team is no easy task, but one that the Vaquero Cougars were up to nonetheless. Behind 4 2/3 strong innings from starter Geo Ceballos, in which the right-hander allowed two earned runs on five hits while striking out nine, the Cougars opened their Tri-Cities District 16 Tournament of Champions run with a 3-2 win Wednesday afternoon at Scholl Canyon Ball Fields. "It's always tough against CV, they're always the No. 1 team to come out of this area," Cougars Coach Mickey Moreno said of Landry's, which had scored a combined 38 runs in its previous two tournament contests.
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By Grant Gordon | March 19, 2010
SOUTHEAST GLENDALE — Amid a slow start to the season, scoring some runs and taking an early lead over visiting Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy on Thursday certainly qualified as a breakthrough for the Glendale High softball team. Unfortunately for the Nitros, the nonleague affair was much more of a breakout day for the Tologs’ own recently quiet bats, which rapped out 13 hits in a 14-2 victory shortened to six innings by the mercy rule. Coming off two shutout losses to open the season and a 2-1 win over Flintridge Prep on Tuesday, Thursday’s output may be a sign the Tologs are gaining confidence at the plate.
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By Grant Gordon | March 11, 2009
PASADENA — Whether the St. Francis High baseball team’s bats stay hot and its pitching steady when Mission League play rolls around next week remains in question, obviously. But for now, the Golden Knights are rolling, having dismantled their last two opponents, including Tuesday afternoon’s 12-3 pummeling of visiting Sierra Vista in an Arcadia Elks Tournament contest at Jackie Robinson Field. “Every game, we get better and better,” said St. Francis junior designated hitter Ryan Pires, who was one of five Golden Knights with multiple hits.
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By Gabriel Rizk | April 8, 2010
NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Riding a six-game winning streak and hitting the ball hard all over the field, the Crescenta Valley High baseball team is spending its spring break heating up. The Falcons bats were white hot over their final two offensive innings of Wednesday’s closing game of the 44th annual Babe Herman Tournament, pounding out 14 runs on nine hits in that span to bury Jesuit, 19-9, in what had been a close game through four-plus...
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By Grant Gordon | February 2, 2007
NORTHEAST GLENDALE ? Struggles at the dish were the main reason the Glendale Community College baseball team started its 2007 campaign winless in its first four games. A quick start and a seemingly endless hit parade on Thursday were the reasons the Vaqueros got their first win of the season. Glendale college nearly doubled its offensive output in its previous four games in the first four innings before fending off Mt. SAC for a 7-4 win in the Western State Conference Tournament on a chilly, overcast day at Stengel Field.
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By Dylan Kruse | April 30, 2008
NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Both the Burroughs and Crescenta Valley high baseball teams entered Tuesday night’s Pacific League bout swinging hot bats, with each club averaging over 13 runs in its previous five contests. At the end of the night, only the Indians were able to keep that trend going. Burroughs junior right-hander Kyle Hart tossed a one-hit, complete-game gem to silence the lethal Falcons attack and the Indians pounded out 10 hits, including two towering home runs, to grab a pivotal 6-2 victory over the Falcons at Stengel Field.
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By Gabriel Rizk | July 16, 2009
NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Crescenta Valley Junior Softball Coach Chris Sanford said his team hasn’t had much time to build onfield chemistry since the District 16 Championship Tournament began. But things had clearly started to jell for CV on Wednesday at Scholl Canyon Ball Fields, when it held a powerful Burbank team that had defeated it by 10 runs on Tuesday to just three runs, winning, 4-3, to force a winner-take-all rematch tonight. “Tonight all the girls started playing as a unit and all the dumb-dumb plays — the shot nerves, running into each other on called balls, watching third strikes — that was out of their system and they came focused, ready to play,” Sanford said.
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By Gabriel Rizk | March 5, 2010
NORTHEAST GLENDALE — While Coach Dave “Hawk” Wilder says his Glendale Community College softball team is still a work in progress, progress was certainly made in some areas during Thursday’s 8-6 win over Bakersfield College in both teams’ Western State Conference Southern Division opener at the Glendale Sports Complex. The Vaqueros’ bats came alive in a four-run third inning and a three-run fourth that gave freshman pitcher Jennifer Meza enough support to hold off the Renegades for a complete-game win. “We’ve gotten better as time goes on and we picked it up today,” said Meza, who allowed five runs on 11 hits.