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‘Unbelievable’ sportsmanship in softball game

by Pat Coate | May 04, 2008
"We started laughing when we touched second base. I said, 'I wonder what this must look like to other people."'
- Mallory Holtman, Central Washington first baseman

Portland, Oregon, USA - 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.

Then, members of the Central Washington University softball team 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.

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