A feel-good story...

[oregonjen]

This is the kind of thing that warms the heart...

Opponents carry injured home run hitter around the bases
4/30/2008, 1:13 p.m. PDT
By JOSEPH B. FRAZIER
The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — With two runners on base and a strike against her, Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University uncorked her best swing and did something she had never done, in high school or college. Her first home run cleared the center field fence.

But it looked like the shortest of dreams come true when she missed first base, started back to tag it and collapsed with a knee injury.

She crawled back to first but could do no more. The first-base coach said she would be called out if her teammates tried to help her. Or, the umpire said, a pinch runner could be called in, and the homer would count as just a single.


Then, members of the Central Washington University softball team in Ellensburg stunned spectators by carrying Tucholsky around the bases Saturday so the three-run homer would count — an act that contributed to their own elimination from the playoffs.

Central Washington first baseman Mallory Holtman, the all-time home run leader in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, asked the umpire if she and her teammates could help Tucholsky.

The umpire said there was no rule against it.



More at: http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/sports-5/1209586752202410.xml&storylist=orlocal

[Suich]

1. What a neat story!

It's nice to read something like this in the middle of all the other crap on the news!

Thanks!

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

2. That's pretty cool.

:)

[lost-in-nj]

3. Thank you

for sharing that

what a wonderful story


:hi:


lost

[oregonjen]

5. This story was on the front page of the Oregonian today

I think we all need warm and fuzzy, amidst the chaos these days

[hvn_nbr_2]

4. Neat story. No Republicans on that team. (Is politics allowed in the Lounge?) nt

[Parche]

6. So What Would Reverend Wright Do?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


Hello fellow Portlander!! :hi:

[oregonjen]

7. Hi back at you!

:hi:
Have to say I teared up during my coffee and cereal this morning while reading it.

[Danger Mouse]

8. Damn, if that don't beat all. That's the height of sportsmanship.