Pioneer softball team off to a perfect start
Grace Brethren performing well, too
By Thomas Gase tgase@theacorn.com
      March couldn't have gone any better for the Simi Valley High softball team. With three wins on Tuesday, the Pioneers improved their overall record to 11-0. At 2-0 in the Marmonte League, SVHS is in a three-way tie for first place with Royal and Thousand Oaks.
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Simi Eclipse to be honored by L.A. Galaxy
     DOMINATING EFFORT- The Simi Valley Eclipse U-12 girls' soccer team won the California Spring Cup championship in Anaheim, outscoring their competition from Nevada and Arizona by a total score of 11-1. The Eclipse will be honored during a Los Angeles Galaxy home game on April 19. Team membe...
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Everyone's pitching in for Royal
By Thomas Gase tgase@theacorn.com
      After losing 10 seniors to graduation last spring, the Royal High softball team is young and inexperienced in 2008. Luckily for the Highlanders, nothing pulls a team together like an extrainning victory.
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The Acorn's 2008 National League West showdown
Sportswriters Thomas Gase and Stephen Dorman debate who will win MLB's toughest division
      Not since the days of Billy the Kid and "Doc" Holliday has the West been this wild. This year the National League West Division will be a race between four solid teams- San Francisco doesn't belong in this conversation- and no longer will 85 wins be good enough to capture the title.
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