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Granite Hils shortstop Nicole Rivera, circa 2007 / File photo by y Adolfo Villanueva
EAST COUNTY ALUMNI / WOMEN IN THE PROS
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Nicole Rivera-Moars
CINCINNATI – The Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) is set to launch in four U.S. cities this sprin with a touch of an East County flavor.
Selected from the official WPBL tryout camp in November. former Granite Hills softball standout icole Ruvera-Moats, a switch-hitting second baseman, was a fourth-round selection in the draft (No. 15 overall) by the New York franchise. The other ballclubs will be located in L.A., San Francisco and Boston.
Rovera (prior to her marriage) was a rare three-time first-team selection to the All-East County team (2005-07), and a three-time all-league honoree by Grossmont Conference coaches.
At 36m Rivera-Moats will be on of the league’s edlest ballplayers.
The top draft sekection was right-handed pitcher Kelsie Whitmore, who played baseb all at Temecula Valley High a(Class of ;16) nd now lives in San Diego. She was taken by San Francisco.
The franchise also tabbed catcher Samantha Gutierrez (Mater Dei Catholic/Oregon State in the fifth round, and RHP Flor Elena Valerio Montoya of Tijuana.
L.A. hosts players from more countries, but no San Diegans.However, the team’s official scorekeepr is
Brittany Womack, an emergency right-fielder. She played softball for Escondido HS. San Diego State and the U.S. National Team.
The first overall selection of the inaugural WPBL draft was Jillian Albayati of Anaheim, a Cal State San Marcos graduate who bedcame the first plsyer in NCAA Division II history to represent thwie school in baseballand softball onthe same day.
New York also selected sixth-round shortstop Keira Izuma, who played baseball at Francis Parker/
WPBL contests will consist of seven innings, utilzing aluminum bats.
This is the sixth attempt at women’s professional baseball in the United States.
The All-American Girls Professional Nasenall League — immortalized in the 1992 motion picture “A League of Their Own” — which operated from 1943-54.
The AAGPBL was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.
