Good News

[browngirl]

So, when I got to work, this is the news item I had wanted to write about, because it was an all-too-rare piece of good news. My post is going to be much shorter and less cheery due to being bummed out by the last news item, but otoh that means I need this good news all the more.

During a softball game that would gain the winning team a shot at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference title, Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University hit a three-run home run, but tore her ACL doing it. Because of the umpires' ruling that a pinch-runner would diminish the gains of her hit, two players from the opposing team (Mallory Holtman & Liz Wallace) carried Ms. Tucholsky around the bases, allowing her home run to fully count, and WOU to win the game.

Now that's sportsmanship.

*cheers them all on*

Comments

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

I posted about this on my own lj yesterday, because how can one not pass along something *that* good?

Turns out the umpire was incorrect. Because the ball was dead, the rules permit a pinch runner to run the bases for the hitter, with the homerun and three rbi credited to the hitter.

This has absolutely no bearing on the true sportsmanship and honor that those two young women (who had no idea it was the hitter's first ever homerun) demonstrated.

Holtman wants to be a coach. :)

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Cool. Nice to know what the rules really would've said :)