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COVID concerns chip away at Olympic training camps Today 04:40 am JST Today | 06:34 am JST LONDON The Olympics may be going ahead, but much of the celebration and connection that normally makes hosting the Games so memorable is being stripped away as almost 50 cities have lost their role as a host or training camp base. More than 70% of those were cancelled by the visiting delegations, fearful of COVID-19 risks and restrictions amid Japan's poor vaccination numbers, shrinking the Games into a Tokyo bubble. The biggest of these was the United States' track and field team, wi...

Texas softball player who pitched perfect game says response has been 'mind-blowing' The University of North Texas softball team swept its series in El Paso this weekend, but it's a game it won earlier this month that people are still talking about — and that's all because of pitcher Hope Trautwein.  Social Sharing North Texas pitcher Hope Trautwein says softball players she looks up to have been talking about her CBC Radio · Posted: Apr 19, 2021 4:47 PM ET | Last Updated: April 19 On April 11, North Texas softball player Hope Trautwein faced 21 batters and struck them all out. It's h...

Offensive Struggles Any time you take on a team of former stars regardless of sport, it is tough competition. Look no further than USA Softball pitcher Cat Osterman. Despite last playing college softball in 2006 with the Texas Longhorns, Osterman has not lost her touch or power. Throughout the 5.2 innings pitched for Osterman in the exhibition, she allowed just four hits and a walk. To go along with that, eight Gators struck out facing the left-hander. Ally Carda replaced the starter in the bottom of the sixth inning, and allowed no hits on her four batters faced. For the Gators batting, it w...

Feb 26, 2021 Haylie Wagner, Gwen Svekis and Victoria Hayward all ran into one another’s arms upon the final out of their softball season, on Sept. 28. Wagner was the starting pitcher, Svekis her catcher and Hayward the center fielder, and theirs was the standard embrace of teammates winning a championship game: exhaustion mixed with joy, streaked with happy tears. Except that this situation was not standard at all. Almost a year earlier, they had been the first three players to sign on with an upstart, experimental league; and while they were, for this moment, on the same squad, they’d se...

Cat Osterman and Ally Carda visiting the Academy softball athletes. USA Softball Women’s National Team (WNT) has been training at the Texas Rangers MLB Youth Academy at Mercy Street Sports Complex, presented by Toyota this past week as they prepare for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Despite busy practice schedules, Cat Osterman and Ally Carda spent National Girls and Women in Sports Day with Academy softball athletes. Junior Kaila Torres (2022) from Sunset High School was “so excited and shocked at the same time” by the unexpected visit. “Cat gave good advice on pitching…accuracy before s...