- April
- Arizona State stays at No. 1 as post season nears
- DePaul’s Heteniak Named Player of the Week
- U.S. returns to tour action on east coast with minor league stadium stops
- USA vs. Oklahoma, ESPN2, 7:00 p.m./ET
- U.S. uses home runs to power past No. 4 UCLA 8-2
- Tennessee’s Callahan Named Player of the Week
- Arizona State Remains at No.1
- USA Softball vs. Oklahoma State, ESPN2, 7:00 p.m./ET
- Finch tosses perfect game as U.S. slips by Louisiana Lafayette 2-0
- USA scores in every inning to blank No. 24 Mississippi State 13-0
- Mendoza records two home runs as U.S. no hits No. 2 Alabama 7-0
- Arizona State Takes Back No. 1
- Creighton’s Sinkler Named Player of the Week
- USA Thumps Milligan College 24-0 in five innings
- USA Softball Edges Tennessee 4-2
- Finch Throws First No-Hitter as USA Softball Beats UNC Greensboro 13-0
- Top 25 Finalists Named for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year
- Alabama's Charlotte Morgan Earns Player of the Week
- Duran Leads USA Softball to 10-3 Win Over Houston
- Bruins stay at No. 1 in ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll
- ASA Hall of Fame and USA Softball Partner with Sports Museum of America
- Team Combines for 26 Hits to Beat NSMU 21-0
- USA Softball Back In Action
- Florida’s Stacey Nelson named Player of the Week
- UCLA Continues at No.1
Duran Leads USA Softball to 10-3 Win Over Houston
HOUSTON, Texas – The USA Softball Women’s National team fell behind 3-0 but came back to defeat Houston 10-3 as part of the KFC Bound 4 Beijing tonight in Houston, Texas. Andrea Duran (Selma, Calif.) led the team with five RBI, going 3-for-4 with a homerun.
The Houston, Texas native Cat Osterman made a homecoming and it may not have been as sweet as she would have liked with Osterman giving up a two-run homerun in the first. Leadoff batter Jessica Valis hit a single and would score when Elena Nordstrom hit a homerun giving the Houston Cougars an early 2-0 lead. They edged their lead to 3-0 when Bush scored off a single by Jennifer Klinkert in the third.
The Red, White and Blue made their showing on the scoreboard when Duran unleashed a ball that went over the fence hitting the outer 250-foot fence to cut Houston’s lead to 3-2. Jessica Mendoza (Camarillo, Calif.) was on base after registering her second single of the game.
After throwing 3.2 innings, Osterman left the game with Monica Abbott (Salinas, Calif.) coming in the circle. Osterman allowed three earned runs, issued three walks with six strikeouts. Abbott entered in the fourth, retiring the last out on three straight pitches.
The more than 3,000 fans saw what they came for in the fourth as the team put up five runs including a three-run homerun by Kelly Kretschman (Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.) and a two-RBI single by Duran.
Jennie Finch (La Mirada, Calif.), with her first extra base hit of the season, hit a ball to right center for a ground-rule double for two RBI to give the team a 9-3 lead. Duran hit a triple to right field for her fifth RBI of the game, to give the team the 10-3 win.
Abbott (5-0) threw 3.1 innings, allowed two hits and no earned runs. She finished with seven strikeouts.
The next stop for the team on the KFC Bound 4 Beijing Tour is Greensboro, N.C., where they will face UNC-Greensboro on Thurs., April 10th at 7:00 p.m. For complete coverage of the event including ticket info, game recaps, photo galleries and live stats log on to http://www.usasoftball.com/
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/.
About KFC Bound 4 Beijing Tour
The KFC Bound 4 Beijing tour is a 45-city nationwide pre-Olympic tour for the USA Softball Women's National team as they prepare to compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Beginning in February, the tour reaches every corner of the country including 23 stateswhile Team USA prepares with 62 total games. The tour consists of five consecutive weekly national televised games on ESPN2 in April and May along with two other bonus games plus four games slated for July that rounds out over 22 hours of original USA Softball branded programming on the ESPN family of networks. Along withthe title sponsor, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), other national tour sponsorsinclude Dermabond and Lumber Liquidators.
