Who’s on First? Must Be Iaccino

Sometimes, it seems, you can’t tell your Iaccinos without a scorecard.

Scorecards at St. Genevieve High rarely have been printed without at least one Iaccino.

Rosy Iaccino, a junior softball pitcher, is the 10th member of the family to compete for the Valiants.

“That family just bleeds St. Genevieve blue,” Coach Tom Alvarez said.

The legacy dates to the 1970s, when Tom and Joanny Iaccino, Rosy’s parents, met at St. Genevieve and attended the sophomore homecoming dance together.

The couple played sports, as did Tom’s sister and two of his brothers.

Rosy, the fifth of seven children, is following siblings Cary, Jeremy, Randy and Casey.

“I’m always getting called, ‘Little Sister,’ ” said Rosy, a captain on the cross-country team and an All-Camino Real League basketball player. “I’m either Casey’s little sister or Randy’s little sister. . . . I don’t like that very much. I’m me.”

Rosy, who has a 3-3 record, might be the latest Iaccino at St. Genevieve, but far from the last.

Brother Jamey, a freshman, is a three-sport athlete at the Panorama City school, and youngest sister Merria plays volleyball and basketball in middle school.

And there are future generations to consider.

“I hope to send [my kids] to a Catholic school somewhere,” Rosy said. “I just don’t know where I’ll be when that time comes.”

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Camarillo played without left-hander Meredith Nevard in the Righetti tournament this week and will be without her for the rest of the month, Coach Miki Mangan said.

Nevard (4-0), twin of right-hander Kathryn, had surgery to remove benign cysts from her stomach last week.

“She had two cysts the size of grapefruits,” Mangan said. “I think maybe that’s why she wasn’t as strong [a pitcher] as Kathryn.”

Maybe not as strong as Kathryn, but darn close: Meredith has allowed only nine hits, struck out 22 and walked two in 25 innings, and hasn’t given up a run.

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Coach Gary Walin of Thousand Oaks is nobody’s fool, not even on April 1.

Coach Pete Ackermann of Newbury Park handed Walin a bogus lineup before the teams took infield in a Marmonte League game last week. One glance and Walin knew something was awry: nearly every Newbury Park player was listed out of position.

Still, when Walin noticed Darlene Stokx--the best catcher in the league--would not be catching, he became giddy.

“Oh, man, are we running,” Walin said to his assistant.

Several minutes later, Walin asked his scorekeeper if Ackermann had turned in a second lineup to overrule the first.

“Not yet, but we’re expecting one pretty soon,” the scorekeeper answered.

According to Ackermann, his April Fool’s joke was not fully appreciated.

“They were just [ticked] because they had to erase all the names,” Ackermann cracked.

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Keri Borzello is a popular coach at Campbell Hall, especially when the New York Yankees are in town.

Borzello’s brother, Michael, is the batting practice pitcher for the World Series champions.

“A lot of the players are interested, but not nearly as much as the coaching staff at school,” she said. “[The coaches] are always hitting me for tickets.”

The number of ticket requests was down last weekend, when the Yankees were in town for two exhibition games against the Dodgers.

Spring break probably had something to do with that.

“I got off easy this time,” Borzello said.

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Simi Valley will play Kennedy on Saturday at Rancho Santa Susana Park in a rain makeup of the Simi Valley tournament championship game, originally scheduled for March 20.

Alemany will travel to Mission League rival Notre Dame in another Simi Valley tournament makeup.

Notre Dame gained home-field advantage when Coach Dudley Rooney of Alemany lost a coin flip to Athletic Director Kevin Rooney (no relation) of Notre Dame.

“I let him flip it over the phone,” Dudley Rooney said. “I figured, if you can’t trust a Rooney, who can you trust?”

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Alemany (6-6) received a boost last week when senior catcher Meghann Reiss returned to the lineup after missing the Indians’ first 11 games.

Reiss, an All-Southern Section selection who has committed to Wisconsin, had surgery in January to repair a torn ligament in her right thumb.

“It’s good to have her back,” Dudley Rooney said of Reiss, who was two for three in her first game.

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First baseman Sara Wheeler was six for 12 with six runs batted in in three games last week to lead Village Christian (8-4) to the championship of the Bakersfield Christian tournament.

The Crusaders have won four consecutive Alpha League titles, but that streak might be in jeopardy with the addition this season of longtime High Desert League powerhouse Paraclete.

The teams met last season in the second round of the Southern Section Division V playoffs, a game won by Paraclete, 1-0.

“It’s definitely going to be very interesting,” assistant Karen Vail of Village Christian said.

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Village Christian boasts one of the smartest teams in the region.

The team’s 14 players have a combined grade-point average of 3.885. No one has a GPA lower than 3.37.

Staff writers Dave Desmond and Paige A. Leech contributed to this notebook.