El Dorado High School - El Dorado Yearbook (Placentia, CA)

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First baseman Kclli Weirich decides to make the out at first by herself. Holly Piper comes over to help. Waiting for their opponents to plan their strategy. Stephanie Richards. Jill Matyuch. and Holly Piper throw a few warm up balls. Lisa Ignacek steps up to the plate to take her best swing. Lisa is the team ' s rightfielder. 258 Softball Domg what she does best. Suzi Bradach pitches to another unfortunate batter. This was Suzi ' s first year on varsity. Suzi pitched two consecutive no- hitters against Katella and Esperanza.

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Transition Period The High School level is much tougher than little league, said first baseman Charlie Stevens. The Frosh-Soph baseball team had to make the jump to high school competition. The result was a 30-2 re- cord in league. Benefit of the rule that one tie goes to the win column and the other to the loss, the team possessed a 4- 3 mark. Our hitting and fielding were our team ' s strengths. The problem was we couldn ' t put both together for one game, said Chris Facione. Throughout the year, we had a good attitude towards the coaching and everyone helped each other out. What goes through your mind when you come up to bat? If I have men on base I ' m batting to score or advance them, re- plied Charlie Stevens. I don ' t worry about being hit. If I do get hit, I get the base and it only hurts for a minute. 2 8 Katella El Dorado 9 9 Loara El Dorado 7 7 Esperanza El Dorado 4 5 Cypress El Dorado 9 6 Los Alamitos El Dorado 8 3 Kennedy El Dorado 4 2 Loara Chris Facione swings level and punches through a basehit. He watches to see if it has any extra base potential. First baseman Charlie Stevens gets down and ready for anything hit his way while Kent Kieffer delivers the pitch, Chris Olsen has a front row seat for every game as the team ' s catcher. He starts the ball around the horn after a strikeout. F S Baseball Pg 257

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Makin ' It Work • : ' a ' s •k Thirteen very skilled girls and two willing coaches made up the E.D. varsity Softball team. Their talent showed up when the lady Hawks took second place in the Woodbridge Softball tournament over spring vacation. One of our best games was against Woodbridge in the tourna- ment. We displayed teamwork and a posi- tive attitude, commented pitcher Suzi Bradach. The team worked long and hard to make themselves the best. It was up to three uniors and two seniors to cover the in- field and keep their opponents from tak- ing a trip around the bases. It was Holly who kept our team on the ball with her constant cheerleading, remarked short- stop Jill Matyuch. Doing her part to help her team. Kris Glomboske stops a ball. Kris also helped her team with her great batting. Shortstop Jill Matyuch comes home to score a run. The Hawks defeated Katella with some help from Jill. The varsity Softball team: Coach Brennan, Jill Ma- tyuch. Shannon Emrick. Jamie Filzpatrick. Leisel Smoyer. Coach Waller, (row 2) Lisa Ignacek. Suzi Bradach. Lisa Renaud. Louise Waller, (row 3) Steph- anie Richards. Holly Piper. Shelley Gallagher, Kris Glomboske. Softball 259