Ocean View’s Dacquisto a Quick Study in Success : Player of the year: County’s two-time batting champion was considered a game-breaker for her team this season.

When she types, she does it with one finger.

“But I do it quick,” she said.

And when she lays down a bunt, she gets down the first-base line as fast as anyone.

Speed and quickness. That’s Lisa Dacquisto’s game. It is suited for softball, a game in which there is little margin for error and players of Dacquisto’s caliber are considered game-breakers.

It is best described as little ball with an exclamation point. And on the field, whether it’s in the batter’s box, on the basepaths or roaming the right- to left-center field alleys for Ocean View, Dacquisto is an exclamation point.

Because of her regular-season contribution, helping the Seahawks rise to a surprising seventh position in the final Orange County Poll, Dacquisto has been named The Times Orange County Player of the Year.

She is a two-time, first-team selection, and it isn’t surprising.

The left-handed batter overtook Marina’s Robyn Yorke in the season’s final game when the two outfielders went head-to-head. Dacquisto’s two-for-three performance raised her average from .611 to .613; Yorke, 0 for 2, dropped from .618 to .603.

It gave Dacquisto the county’s best batting average for the second year in a row. She batted .552 as a junior, again edging Yorke (.532) for the county title.

In addition to batting .613, she had 43 stolen bases and a career-high 26 runs. And in her first playoff appearance, she helped Ocean View reach the Southern Section Division I semifinals.

Over her four-year career, Dacquisto had a .528 batting average, and when the season ended, her 158 hits and 123 stolen bases were more than any previous Orange County player.

She moves on to Arizona State next year to study veterinary medicine and play for the Sun Devils, and she will make the local media happy--Dacquisto may be even more colorful than talented.

Wacky is not an inaccurate description, she conceded.

On game days, she sticks good Bazooka Bubble Gum fortunes in her lucky bra. She wears her hair a certain way, held in place by a particular rubber band. And when she notices all the numbers on the clock are the same, like 12:12 p.m., 1:11, 2:22, she crams as many wishes as she can into the minute.

Time has shown there were a lot of successful wishes this year.