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This has been widely circulated throughout the sports community and beyond...

Central Washington offers the ultimate act of sportsmanship
By Graham Hays
ESPN.com

Western Oregon senior Sara Tucholsky had never hit a home run in her career. Central Washington senior Mallory Holtman was already her school's career leader in them. But when a twist of fate and a torn knee ligament brought them face to face with each other and face to face with the end of their playing days, they combined on a home run trot that celebrated the collective human spirit far more than individual athletic achievement.

Both schools compete as Division II softball programs in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Neither has ever reached the NCAA tournament at the Division II level. But when they arrived for Saturday's conference doubleheader at Central Washington's 300-seat stadium in Ellensburg, a small town 100 miles and a mountain range removed from Seattle, the hosts resided one game behind the visitors at the top of the conference standings. As was the case at dozens of other diamonds across the map, two largely anonymous groups prepared to play the most meaningful games of their seasons.

It was a typical Saturday of softball in April, right down to a few overzealous fans heckling an easy target, the diminutive Tucholsky, when she came to the plate in the top of the second inning of the second game with two runners on base and the game still scoreless after Western Oregon's 8-1 win in the first game of the afternoon.

"I just remember trying to block them out," Tucholsky said of the hecklers. "The first pitch I took, it was a strike. And then I really don't remember where the home run pitch was at all; [I] just remember hitting it, and I knew it was out."

A part-time starter in the outfield throughout her four years, Tucholsky had been caught in a numbers game this season on a deep roster that entered the weekend hitting better than .280 and having won nine games in a row. Prior to the pitch she sent over the center-field fence, she had just three hits in 34 at-bats this season. And in that respect, her hitting heroics would have made for a pleasing, if familiar, story line on their own: an unsung player steps up in one of her final games and lifts her team's postseason chances.

But it was what happened after an overly excited Tucholsky missed first base on her home run trot and reversed direction to tag the bag that proved unforgettable.

"Sara is small -- she's like 5-2, really tiny," Western Oregon coach Pam Knox said. "So you would never think that she would hit a home run. The score was 0-0, and Sara hit a shot over center field. And I'm coaching third and I'm high-fiving the other two runners that came by -- then all of a sudden, I look up, and I'm like, 'Where's Sara?' And I look over, and she's in a heap beyond first base."

While she was doubling back to tag first base, Tucholsky's right knee gave out. The two runners who had been on base already had crossed home plate, leaving her the only offensive player on the field of play, even as she lay crumpled in the dirt a few feet from first base and a long way from home plate. First-base coach Shannon Prochaska -- Tucholsky's teammate for three seasons and the only voice she later remembered hearing in the ensuing conversation -- checked to see whether she could crawl back to the base under her own power.

As Knox explained, "It went through my mind, I thought, 'If I touch her, she's going to kill me.' It's her only home run in four years. I didn't want to take that from her, but at the same time, I was worried about her."

Umpires confirmed that the only option available under the rules was to replace Tucholsky at first base with a pinch runner and have the hit recorded as a two-run single instead of a three-run home run. Any assistance from coaches or trainers while she was an active runner would result in an out. So without any choice, Knox prepared to make the substitution, taking both the run and the memory from Tucholsky.

"And right then," Knox said, "I heard, 'Excuse me, would it be OK if we carried her around and she touched each bag?'"

The voice belonged to Holtman, a four-year starter who owns just about every major offensive record there is to claim in Central Washington's record book. She also is staring down a pair of knee surgeries as soon as the season ends. Her knees ache after every game, but having already used a redshirt season earlier in her career, and ready to move on to graduate school and coaching at Central, she put the operations on hold so as to avoid missing any of her final season. Now, with her own opportunity for a first postseason appearance very much hinging on the outcome of the game -- her final game at home -- she stepped up to help a player she knew only as an opponent for four years.

"Honestly, it's one of those things that I hope anyone would do it for me," Holtman said. "She hit the ball over her fence. She's a senior; it's her last year. … I don't know, it's just one of those things I guess that maybe because compared to everyone on the field at the time, I had been playing longer and knew we could touch her, it was my idea first. But I think anyone who knew that we could touch her would have offered to do it, just because it's the right thing to do. She was obviously in agony."

Holtman and shortstop Liz Wallace lifted Tucholsky off the ground and supported her weight between them as they began a slow trip around the bases, stopping at each one so Tucholsky's left foot could secure her passage onward. Even with Tucholsky feeling the pain of what trainers subsequently came to believe was a torn ACL (she was scheduled for tests to confirm the injury on Monday), the surreal quality of perhaps the longest and most crowded home run trot in the game's history hit all three players.

"We all started to laugh at one point, I think when we touched the first base," Holtman said. "I don't know what it looked like to observers, but it was kind of funny because Liz and I were carrying her on both sides and we'd get to a base and gently, barely tap her left foot, and we'd all of a sudden start to get the giggles a little bit."

Accompanied by a standing ovation from the fans, they finally reached home plate and passed the home run hitter into the arms of her own teammates.

Then Holtman and Wallace returned to their positions and tried to win the game.

Hollywood would have a difficult time deciding how such a script should end, whether to leave Tucholsky's home run as the decisive blow or reward the selfless actions of her opponents. Reality has less room for such philosophical quandaries. Central Washington did rally for two runs in the bottom of the second -- runs that might have tied the game had Knox been forced to replace Tucholsky -- but Western Oregon held on for a 4-2 win.

But unlike a movie, the credits didn't roll after the final out, and the story that continues has little to do with those final scores.

"It kept everything in perspective and the fact that we're never bigger than the game," Knox said of the experience. "It was such a lesson that we learned -- that it's not all about winning. And we forget that, because as coaches, we're always trying to get to the top. We forget that. But I will never, ever forget this moment. It's changed me, and I'm sure it's changed my players."

For her part, Holtman seems not altogether sure what all the fuss is about. She seems to genuinely believe that any player in her position on any field on any day would have done the same thing. Which helps explains why it did happen on that day and on that field.

And she appreciates the knowledge that while the results of Saturday's game and her senior season soon will fade into the dust and depth of old media guides and Internet archives, the story of what happened in her final game at home will live on far longer.

"I think that happening on Senior Day, it showed the character of our team," Holtman said. "Because granted I thought of it, but everyone else would have done it. It's something people will talk about for Senior Day. They won't talk about who got hits and what happened and who won; they'll talk about that. And it's kind of a nice way to go out, because it shows what our program is about and the kind of people we have here."

I have a vhs tape from a local Boston band (O Postive) back in the 1990's that almost made it big..

Kinda of a Boston-version of REM / U2 sound...

I want to have it converted from VHS tio DVD with a song menu and will pay up to $100 for someone's time to convert it for me...

PM me if interested..

(details below)
The photo / camera stores cannot add a DVD menu page..

I just want to give O Positive and the fans access to this show..

Its very steady and shot pretty tight on the band (I was right at your feet in the front)
spectacular in-store performance.

Here's the track list/ time menu text:

O-Positive 9/18/93

Strawberries Kenmore Square
:32 Happy Birthday WFNX
1:00 Groovy Town
4:00 With You
8:20 Hey Dave
12:30 Kamikaze Dove ('Hey Michael")
17:55 Unhappy (Slow version)
22:14 Superman("Superwoman")
27:25 Beautiful
31:34 Holding On To You jaw-dropping performance IMO!)
37:47 Buy Yourself
43:40 Innernational
END

Scott in Boston

Match-up #45 - At the Hundredth Meridian Vs. Springtime in Vienna
Listen to the two songs in the match-up Back to Back, and consider the lyrics of the song. Feel free to post an unbiased analysis of both songs in this thread, but please refrain from cheerleading or making predictions for your favourites.

Buckle down, NBers! Here we go... its supposed to reach record levels with the next 32 hours.
"Flooding of historic preportions"

The New Brunswick legislature was shut down today, due to roads within a block being flooded out. Fredericton is essentially closed, and Saint John / the Kennebecasis Valley is supposed to get the highest waters, but we also have higher banks.

Also, apparently theres still quite a bit of snow in Nothern Maine and New Brunswick, so the flooding could last for almost a week!

This is kinda crazy, I haven't seen anything like this.

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Don't know how many "soccer" fans are on here, but this game between Liverpool and Chelsea is great!! Man U. is already in the final, and what a game that was....All England final for the first time ever..can't wait!!

Alright, so I'm stuck in traffic on the freeway this morning behind one of these guys.



Yeah, thats right. Giant balls AKA Truck Nuts.



Every time I see one of these guys I think to myself "What a dick." This got me thinking about things people put on/in their cars. Bumper stickers, fuzzy dice, magnets, license plate frames, testicles etc..


So my question is this.

Do you decorate your auto with anything? Anything stuck on your bumper? What is is any why?

Hi all,

I'm off on holiday on Saturday for two weeks, and therefore won't be able to continue to keep the Hip 64 chart updated! I've created this years chart in Adobe InDesign CS to keep the updating a lot easier. If anyone has access/experience with this software, and would like to take over the compiling of the chart, please let me know! I can package the whole thing up and send it over to you so you can carry on where I've left off.

It's a very simple design and is mega easy to update, so even if you don't feel like you're a whizz with the program, you'll still be able to edit it. I can also send you detailed instructions if need be.

Cheers guys, sorry for the short notice. I should have thought of this earlier really... :oops:

Apparently they want their crappy music back.

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It is a sad, sad day...

Ascetic-thin, coveted by vultures
And rendered child-like by the road
Das Hips repair to leeward culture
They back the truck up and unload
And get down to finding fresh pretense
To mistake the dream for prescience
The one where Siren's honey tones
Lead us up to the microphones
Her instructions couldn't be more plain:
"Fear no reflection, fear no art,
Let the manual be your heart
The blues are still required again."
The trouble at the henhouse is,
Her voice, it lulls, then vanishes.

What time does the Calgary Brentwood LRT Station parking lot fill up on a typical weekday? What time does the Dalhousie lot fill?

I'm starting a job downtown next week and I'm just trying to figure out whether or not it'll be possible for me to park and ride.