Hamilton girls win Warner Softball Tournament

Joe Naiman

Writer

The Warner Softball Tournament on April 27 in Warner Springs was the most recent competition for the seven small K-8 elementary and middle schools in northern San Diego County and southern Riverside County. The schools participate in athletic tournaments with a different school hosting a different sport each month. The Hamilton School girls won the Warner Softball Tournament while Hamilton’s boys took third place. Hamilton, Borrego Springs Middle School and Julian Junior High School had both boys and girls teams. Cottonwood Elementary School, Vallecitos Elementary School (Rainbow), and Warner Middle School had co-ed teams which played in the boys division. Pauma Elementary

School (Pauma Valley) did not participate in the Warner Softball Tournament. Because the girls division had only three teams each school played two games against each opponent; Hamilton had a 4-0 record while Borrego Springs and Julian both ended with 1-3 records with Borrego Springs being awarded second place on the run differential tiebreaker.

“The girls did great. They hit the ball,” Hamilton girls coach Jenny Villalobos said. “Defense was awesome. Only a couple of errors between the four games.”

The games lasted four innings or 30 minutes, although the full inning was allowed to be completed if the 30 minutes had elapsed. A team was limited to five runs in their batting half of the inning. The teams pitched to their own batters; schools could either utilize a student or a faculty member as the pitcher. Each team had 10 players on the field.

Hamilton’s girls competition began with a 10-1 victory over Julian. The Bobcats’ second game was a 9-0 triumph against Borrego Springs, whose mascot is also the Bobcat. The second game between Hamilton and Julian ended with a 10-0 score in Hamilton’s favor.

The second game between the two teams had the same 9-0 score as the first game with Hamilton scoring the nine runs.

“We worked as a team and I did well,” Hamilton eighth-grader Lexi Holt said. Holt hit four home runs during Hamilton’s four games. Four other Hamilton players – Amaya Ambriz, Bella Barreto, Ishwish Rozon and Danica Saul – each homered once. Hamilton brought 14 girls to the tournament.

Each of the six boys or co-ed teams played four of the other five opponents. Borrego Springs placed first with a 4-0 record, Vallecitos was second at 3-1 and the Hamilton boys were 2-2 for third place.

“I thought it was good competition from all the other teams,” Hamilton boys coach David Nelissen said. “The kids played hard, and we did the best we could.”

Hamilton had 10 boys. The Bobcats’ first game was a 3-1 loss to Warner. Borrego Springs then defeated Hamilton in a 10-1 contest. A 10-2 win against Julian gave the Bobcats their first boys victory. Hamilton then handed Vallecitos the Vikings’ only loss of the tournament in a 4-3 game.

Cottonwood finished the tournament with a record of 0-31. The Cougars, who had 11 boys and five girls, began with a 4-1 loss to Vallecitos. The game between Cottonwood and Warner ended in a 5-5 tie. The Cougars then lost 10-0 to Borrego Springs and 6-3 to Julian.

“Half of my boys had never played,” Cottonwood coach Cindy Harris said. “I’m very happy at how well they’ve improved.”

The tournament was played on the Warner Unified School District athletic fields, which are across State Route 79 from the elementary, middle and high school campus. This academic year’s tournaments will conclude May 18 with a track and field meet hosted by Julian Junior High School and held at Julian High School.

Joe Naiman can be reached by email at jnaiman@reedermedia. com

State Sen. Seyarto hosts a news conference to repeal the death tax and restore taxpayer protections

SACRAMENTO – State Sen. Kelly Seyarto, R-Murrieta, hosted a news conference Tuesday, May 2, on Senate Constitutional Amendment 4, a constitutional amendment that would restore taxpayers’ property rights allowing Californians to keep their childhood homes and family businesses when their parents or grandparents die.

In 2020, Proposition 19 capped the value of family homes that could be inherited with their Proposition 13 tax base to 1 million dollars and restricted the ability for parents to transfer property to their children by adding a requirement that they live in the home for the remainder of their life.

Before Proposition 19’s passage, both parents and grandparents could pass their homes and businesses to their children and grandchildren without such implications, giving families a chance at economic mobility through inheritance.

“Prop. 19 changed the way intergenerational transfers of property were handled, all to the detriment of Californians who had worked so hard for many years to solidify a future for themselves and their families,” Seyarto said.

“Simply put, Prop. 19 resurrected the death tax. We should be making it easier for Californians to inherit property without asking them to absorb the burden of additional

Letter to the Editor

I have never voted for Sen. Dianne Feinstein. I have always found her brand of San Francisco liberalism to be very noxious. In past elections when Feinstein’s name appeared on the ballot next to another Democrat, due to California’s deeply flawed top-two voting process, I just left that ballot portion blank.

However, I find these political machinations to be absolutely ghoulish. You can easily get a sense of all of the sociopathic politicians just licking their chops to get at this U.S. Senate seat. The U.S. Senate has had several senators who lived well into their 90s and one who lived to 100. I do not recall such political skullduggery for these elderly senators. Californians who voted for taxes. Upward economic mobility cannot be achieved unless we let people own what they create through decades of hard work.”

Seyarto recognized several speakers in support of the measure including Jon Coupal, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.

“SCA 4 would reinstate Propositions 58 and 193, giving Californians back those protections of being able to inherit property from parents and grandparents,” Coupal said. “Prop. 58 was passed by unanimous vote in both houses. They put it on the ballot, and the voters supported it by 76%. It’s clear that voters in this state want to restore that protection.”

Lynda Chac, a Realtor from Elk Grove, said that her clients work hard to purchase their forever home that they want to leave to their children when they die.

“I don’t think we can emphasize enough the terribly and intentionally biased title and summary of {Prop 19},” Sen. Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks, coauthor of the measure, said. “Titled ‘The Home Protection for Seniors, Severely Disabled, Families and Victims of Wildfire or Natural Disasters Act,’ they should have added to that ‘and the largest tax increase the state has passed,’ but that was left out. We are going to correct that error with SCA 4, of which I am a proud co-author.”

Veronica Nelson, first vice president and legislative chair of the Sacramento Realtist Association, and Rosie Milligan, an author and estate planner who holds a doctorate in business management, also voiced their support for the measure.

“I support SCA 4 because the intent is to repeal the devastating impact of Prop 19 and protect

California families from being taxed out of their homes,” Milligan said.

“This legislation has one purpose, to restore protections for taxpayers and to keep the intrusive reach of the government away from their family inheritance,” Seyarto said. “I urge everyone to join with us, contact your Representatives and tell them to

Valley News/Courtesy photo vote yes on SCA 4 so we can bring this measure back to the people and restore taxpayer protections.” SCA 4 will be up for a special hearing in the Senate Committee for Governance and Finance Wednesday, May 10. Visit http:// sgf.senate.ca.gov for instructions on participation.

Submitted by the office of Sen. Kelly Seyarto.

Feinstein knew who and what they were getting. Let those voters bear the ramifications of that 2018 election.

In the meantime, if a black Californian must be appointed, then I would recommend former candidate for governor Larry Elder, Civil Rights Attorney Leo Terrell or even former California Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Appeals Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown. Yeah, I know that any of these choices have a snowball’s chance in hell of being selected in this dystopian California hellhole.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Rick Reiss Temecula resident