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	2010 TOP TEN COLLEGE-COMMITTED SOFTBALL PLAYERS IN ORANGE COUNTY. Find the top recruits who know where they're going to school....READ MORE.

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Megan Willis: The new face of softball
Former OC Firecracker becomes a fresh face for softball.

By: MARCIA C. SMITH
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

She's 24 years old, blonde, confident, trim, built like a slab of Stonehenge and has been called "one of the hottest softball players in the U.S." But Megan Willis' real beauty comes behind the plate, where she is masked, geared up, squatting with a mitt and using that rifle of a right arm to pick off thieves racing toward an extra base. READ MORE .

Meet Softball's Yoda: Coach - Philosopher Teaches how to hit National Champ works out of Huntington Beach Warehouse, Shaping Pupils into Players.

By MARCIA C. SMITH
The Orange County Register

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Inside an unmarked, 4,000-square-foot corner of an Enterprise Lane industrial office complex, a skinny, tanned man with a Softball Connection ballcap, eyeglasses and the beginnings of a handlebar mustache is talking above the sizzle of 60 mph pitches and the aluminum clang of bat on softball.

Tony Rico is speaking about good players being "the hunters" rather than "the hunted." He's calling pitches "chances," swings "decisions" and softball "life" sliced up in scoreboard innings.

Fluorescent yellow softballs spit from pitching machines inside three batting cages that run the width of the room. Teen-age girls take heavy-armed swings at bullet after bullet, their eyes narrow beneath their hard-plastic helmets, their attention lasting as long as one pitch. READ MORE...