Sportsmanship At It’s Best
You may have already heard about this nice story. It has been in many news outlets.
Sara Tucholsky, a senior softball player for Western Oregon, hits a home run. It is the first one in her career. While rounding first base, she blows her knee out. She is unable to continue.
If anybody from her team’s bench touches her, she is out. She can stay at first base and get a pinch runner, but then it is only a single and not a home run.
As the coach is getting ready to call a substitute, two players from the other team, Central Washington, offer to help. There are no rules on the book against the opposing team actually helping the runner. So Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace carried the injured opponent around the bases, stopping at each on so she could touch them with her good leg.
The good samaritans’ team loses what is a very important game in the battle for their conference title and their season ends.
The members of the UltimateCollegeSoftball.com forum started discussing this amazing act before it became such a big story around the country.
Here is the thread.
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/robocoach/vpost?id=2668189
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