Wow, thank you, 'trove and Eric! We're confident you're correct. Both balls were obtained in the LA area,
which adds a little additional substantiation, as does a look at Mondesi's wide variety of indecipherable scribbles:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q...ph&FORM=HDRSC2
Until you guys pointed us to Mondesi, all we could make of it was "Rycefeli."