Softball: Ocean View’s Floetker appears to be on her game

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Holly Floetker, the towering sophomore pitcher from Ocean View, has struck out five of the first seven batters she has faced. She looks like the school’s best pitcher since Kathy Ponce in the mid-1990s.

Ponce went on to Arizona State and later became coach at Ocean View for a few years. I think the furthest OV advanced when Ponce was there was the semis, or maybe the quarters, but that team was good and playing in a higher division. At that time, OV was in the Sea View League. No, make that the Sunset League. I get my ‘S’ leagues confused.

It’s 0-0 through 2 1/2 innings of the Southern Section-Toyota Division IV championship Saturday at Barber Park in Irvine.

-- Martin Henderson