Summertime skills girls
Jeff Tully
For months, players from the Burbank Park, Recreation and Community
Services Department Ponytail Softball league have been busy taking
part in competition.
With victories and division championships at stake, the athletes
worked hard to better themselves, and their teams.
However, Saturday at Olive Park, the players were able to relax a
little and have some fun, as they celebrated the ending of another
successful season with the annual Ponytail Softball Jamboree,
sponsored by the Foothill Civitan Club.
Like their Hap Minor Baseball counterparts the week before, the
softball players invaded the park for their traditional skills
competition, food, refreshments.
The day began with a parade from the Media City Center Mall to
Olive Park for the annual skills competition and awards ceremony. In
the skills competition, players took part in four events -- hitting
for distance; throwing for accuracy; baserunning and throwing for
distance -- and won awards for their accomplishments.
The top three award winners from each division in the skills
competition include:
T-BALL PINK
Baserunning -- 1. Maile Tanigawa (Superior Babes) 15.27 seconds;
2. Kaylee Budrick (Starlights) 15.65; 3. Maija Burrall (Calvary Bible
Rockets) 15.66. Hitting for distance -- 1. Davina Del Castillo
(Superior Babes) 104 feet; 2. Tori Talavera (Calvary Bible Rockets)
98; 3. Kaylee Budrick (Starlights) 96. Throwing for accuracy -- 1.
Jasmin Orozco (Wildcats) 11 points; 2. Natalie Breyer (Lil’ Rockets)
10/3; 3. Amanda Martinez (Lil’ Rockets) 10/0. Throwing for distance
-- 1. Ashton Akins (Starlights) 105 feet; 2. Davina Del Castillo 91;
3. Maile Tanigawa (Superior Babes) 90.
T-BALL PURPLE
Baserunning -- 1. Abigail Miller (ARC TV Tornadoes) 16.12 seconds;
2. Adela Martinez (ARC TV Tornadoes) 16.5; 3. Daniella Ryan (ARC TV
Tornadoes) 17.2. Hitting for distance -- 1. Rachel Lara (ARC TV
Tornadoes) 65 feet; 2. Christine Felling (Skittles) 59; 3. Grace
Tarandek (Pink Panthers) 55. Throwing for accuracy -- 1. Adriana
Kaloustian (ARC TV Tornadoes) 6 points; 2. Makena Savola (Cheetah
Girls) 4/6; 3. Hannah Cevee (Peale Panthers) 4/4. Throwing for
distance -- 1. Dominique Santes (Cheetah Girls) 76 feet; 2. Sasha
Hellwig (ARC TV Tornadoes) 62; 3. Abigal Miller (ARC TV Tornadoes)
61.
COLT BBB
Baserunning -- 1. Brice Edringer (Madness) 13.47 seconds; 2. Tori
Valdivia (Warriors) 13.62; 3. Laina Do (Madness) 13.72. Hitting for
distance -- 1. Katie Hooper (Warriors) 135 feet; 2. Chelsea Miosi
(Madness) 118; 3. Jackie Villareal (Madness) 109. Throwing for
accuracy -- 1. Chrystal Diaz (Madness) 11 points; 2. Paige Phillips
(Warriors) 6/10; 3. Paige Roberts (Madness) 6/6. Throwing for
distance -- 1. Katie Hooper (Warriors) 126 feet; 2. Courtney Seidler
(Madness); 3. Jessica Schachtner (Madness) 111.
COLT BB
Baserunning -- 1. Janessa Hawara (Bad Catz)13.6 seconds; 2. Annie
Adamowicz (Funky Cats) 14.23; 3. Shelley Rolph (Oreos) 14.81. Hitting
for distance -- 1. Stephanie Eskander (Herman Purple Angels) 120
feet; 2. Hayley Woolsey (Funky Cats) 115; 3. Melissa Robles (Funky
Cats) 90. Throwing for accuracy -- 1. Natalie Arendonodo (Little
Sluggers) 10 points; 2. Caroline O’Donnell (Little Sluggers) 8; 3.
Vanessa Amaya (Funky Cats) 5/1. Throwing for distance -- 1. Lysette
Perez (Funky Cats) no mark; 2. Annie Adamowicz (Funky Cats) no mark;
3. Dana Elliot (Bad Catz) no mark.
COLT B
Baserunning -- 1. Christina Mitilian (Doyle Wyld Thangs) 14.6
seconds; 2. Savannah Underwood (Bat Bratz) 14.87; 3. Grace Mote
(Sluggin’ Divas) 14.88. Hitting for distance -- 1. Michelle Toerge
(Doyle Wyld Thangs) 96 feet; 2. Bailey Simmons (Sluggin’ Divas) 94;
3. Brandy Flores (Glitter Girls) 87. Throwing for accuracy -- 1.
Isabel Gomez (Sluggin’ Divas) 9 points; 2. Alina Matthews (Glitter
Girls) 7; 3. Jessica Travis (Doyle Wyld Thangs) 6. Throwing for
distance -- 1. Cora Villacia (Sluggin’ Divas) 99 feet; 2. Catlyn
Cottrell (Island Blue Angels) 96; 3. Bailee Trotta (Riccardi Wild
Thangz).
COLT AAA
Baserunning -- 1. Mariah Winters (Winters Angels) 13.22 seconds;
2. Megan Stephenson (Rowdie Girls) 13.25; 3. Danielle Reid (Winters
Angels) 13.38. Hitting for distance -- 1. Hattie Linares
(Heartbreakers) 147 feet; 2. Taylor Buliavac (Heartbreakers) 121 ; 3.
Kayla Dalley (Heartbreakers) 110. Throwing for accuracy -- 1. Tatiana
Sanchez (Heartbreakers) 15 points; 2. Hallie White (Heartbreakers) 9;
3. Taylor Baker (Voo Doo Dolls) 5. Throwing for distance -- 1. Mariah
Winters (Winters Angels) 135 feet; 2. Tatiana Sanchez (Heartbreakers)
130; 3. Breanna Silveria (Diamond Dolls) 123.
COLT AA
Baserunning -- 1. Danielle Coye (Dark Angels) 12.78 feet; 2. Haley
Pirruccello (Jensen Blue Angels) 13.0; 3. Paige Stockwell (Dirt
Devils) 13.17. Hitting for distance -- 1. Jessie Jones (Dark Angels)
100 feet; 2. Jasmin Williams (Dark Angels) 89; 3. Paige Stockwell
(Dirt Devils) 70. Throwing for accuracy -- 1. Alex Mendias (Jensen
Blue Angels) 6/3 points; 2. Gabrielle Schnaid (Dirt Devils) 6/1; 3.
Tanya Hidalgo (Stingers) 6/0. Throwing for distance -- 1. Catalin
Lorea-Serna (Dark Angels) 118 feet; 2. Amber Bartmus (Dirt Devils)
117; 3. Constance Innocent (Dirt Devils) 110.
YEARLING AAA
Baserunning -- 1. Vanessa Simile (Burbank Bratz) 12.91 seconds; 2.
Anissa Lopez (Blue Jays) 13.44; no third. Hitting for distance -- 1.
Melissa Sanchez (Xtreme) 178 feet; 2. Melissa Vasquez (Blue Jays)
139; 3. Adriana Alvarez (Blye Jays) 126. Throwing for accuracy -- 1.
Allyson Benne (Blue Jays) 6/7points; 2. Shelly Klawitter (Blue Jays)
6/0; 3. Miranda Castanada (Blue Jays) 5. Throwing for distance -- 1.
Vanessa Simile (Burbank Bratz) 160; 2. Melissa Sanchez (Xtreme) 148;
3. Marissa Vasquez (Blue Jays) 144.
YEARLING AA
Baserunning -- 1. Miluchia Sibala (Stallions) 12.13 seconds; 2.
Mary Dominguez (Bambino Babes) 12.6; 3. Lizzy Peters (Thomas Wild
Things) 13.25. Hitting for distance -- 1. Krystin Thomas (Thomas Wild
Things) 179 feet; 2. Breanna Villalobos (Bambino Babes) 178; 3. Kathy
Dalley (Thomas Wild Things) 158. Throwing for accuracy -- 1. Emily
Tubert (Rockets) 7 points; 2. Breanna Villalobos (Bambino Babes) 6/6;
3. Aasiya Murphy (Softball Shorties) 6/3. Throwing for distance -- 1.
Jessica Sol (Thomas Wild Things) 145 feet; 2. Traci Hamanaka
(Rockets) 135; 3. Jessika Diaz (Rockets) 132.