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USA Softball Arrives in Oklahoma City on Easter
By Julie Bartel // USA Softball // March 24, 2008
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. --- With a warm welcome from the Easter Bunny, the USA Softball Women’s National team arrived in Oklahoma City on Sunday in advance of its collegiate match-ups this week. Scheduled to play four games in the capital city on the KFC Bound 4 Beijing tour, the Red, White and Blue spent the day at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium participating in an Easter Egg hunt with teammates and their children followed by interviews and practice.
On Monday, the U.S. will battle the Oklahoma State Cowgirls at 6:30 p.m. before taking on No. 11 Oklahoma on Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday, it will be double header action with No. 18 DePaul at 5 p.m. and Virginia Tech at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are still available at 1-800-654-8337 or by visiting www.softballoutlet.com.
Coming in at 14-0 on the tour, Team USA has outscored opponents 142-3 thus far on the KFC Bound 4 Beijing Tour and is led by Laura Berg (Santa Fe Spring, Calif.) who is hitting .579. Outfielder Jessica Mendoza (Camarillo, Calif.) is leading in RBI with 21 hitting .531 with four home runs. Crystl Bustos (Canyon Country, Calif.) has continued to bring her power with a team leading five home runs batting .367 with 19 RBI.
From the circle, the U.S. pitching squad has held opponents to a .059 batting average and south paw Cat Osterman (Houston, Texas) has totaled 55 strikeouts in 22.0 innings pitched.
About ASA
The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation’s largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 83 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 240,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit http://www.asasoftball.com/.
About USA Softball
USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men’s, Women’s, Junior Boys’ and Junior Girls’ National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women’s National Team is one of the only two women’s sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won eight World Championship titles including the last six consecutive as well as claimed two World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit http://www.usasoftball.com/.
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