FULLERTON – The figures are as astounding as it is revealing.
The Softball Player K’lene Gutierrez led 30 points in the first year, 50 this season in the second year. The 40 produced points that she has on average During his first two seasons, it is more than the previous record of a single season of his school.
And she’s not finished.
The Royals are young, loaded and try to win their third title of Southern CIF section. The rosary begins the qualifiers for division 1 Thursday when it welcomes Bonita at Fullerton College.
On a sequence of 16 consecutive victories of 16 games, the Royals (25-2-1) have set a school record for the points scored (239) and are a victory to equalize another record for most of the victories.
The two students in the second year at the top of the range – the prototypical speed burners Hayden Huerta and Jenna Caldera – scored 45 and 41 points, respectively, breaking the best of 37 of RO -Ary of 37 taking place by Kaitlin Cochran in 2005.
GUTIERREZ gives muscle to a program that has scored 11 times double -digit and held the opponents at three points or less in 22 of the 28 games. In a team built for the future – there are three seniors and no juniors in the initial training – the present seems pretty good.
GUTIERREZ – whose first name is pronounced “KAY -LEEN” – BAT .508 with 11 doubles, three triple and six circuits. Its 50 products produced are double of anyone else in the team. She has more walks (nine) than stick withdrawals (seven) despite her free exchange.
“K’lene is a pure striker who launches the line in the middle,” said Royals coach Tice, who began to train the program in 1994. “It is almost more impressive because, unlike her teammates, she will not deposit a blow and beat him.
“She is the best striker we have had.”
Patient and driving always better, Gutierrez benefits from the conduct of her life with teammates who have remarkable chemistry and real joy for the game – and each other.
“This team is special,” said Gutierrez. “No matter what we are doing well or that we fight, we always encourage each other, we have the back of the other. If I leave someone on the basis, I know that the next person will do the job.
“I work hard for what I have. I was lucky to have talents, but that will not take you far; The hard work beats him 100% of the time. I am so lucky to have the support system that I do – my family, my teammates, my friends at school, the environment that was put to me. ”
Regardless of what is happening in the playoffs, Tice knows that it is a special team with special times to come.
“These children do not care at all what the outside world thinks of them,” he said. “They are there to have fun, be awkward. It is really a crackup with them. They are an explosion. ”
Takeoff is Thursday.
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