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MACON -- Three-sport all-conference Fulton Hornet Walker Gohring tossed a complete-game shutout victory, and freshman pinch-hitter Ben Leslie provided sixth-inning heroics for the second time in as many games.

Japan beats U.S. to win softball gold Today 06:10 am JST Today | 11:27 am JST YOKOHAMA They marched single file onto the podium near shortstop with the blank expressions of the condemned. When silver medals were handed out, they dangled them around each other’s necks like weights. Eyes were red and damp. Perfunctory waves for the cameras were managed. Hands fidgeted with bouquets of sunflowers. Stunned, yes. Heartbroken, yes. Most precisely: devastated. “It stings,” Cat Osterman would say more than two hours later. “I’ve never been on a team that had so much fight...

Japan Beats US 2–0, Turns Incredible DP to Win Softball Gold YOKOHAMA,—Japan won its second straight Olympic softball gold medal, beating the United States 2–0 Tuesday in an emotional repeat of its 2008 victory in Beijing that again left the Americans in tears. Yukiko Ueno took a one-hitter into the sixth inning, five days after her 39th birthday, and Japan snuffed out an American rally attempt with an acrobatic double play in the sixth inning that will long be replayed. Japan led 2–0 when Michelle Moultrie singled leading off the sixth off hard-throwing 20-year-old left-hander Miu Go...