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Sara Tucholsky - A great moment in sports history |
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Written by Mike Sinko
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Monday, 05 May 2008 00:24 |
Last Wednesday, April 30th, 2008, in Portland Oregon, there was one of the most touching, heartwarming moments in sports history. It was a game between Western Oregon and Central Washington. A girl by the name of Sara Tucholsky, a senior from the university of Western Oregon, who has a career .153 AVG. She had never hit a home run in her career before today. In the top of the second inning, with two runners on base, Sara Tucholsky hits a two run home run to put her team up 3-0. As Sara was gazing at her home run go over the fence, she mistakenly misses first base and has to turn around ang tag the bag, as she turned around, tragedy had struck, Sara Tucholsky had tore a ligament in her right knee, all she could do was lay their in pain and disbelief. The umpires had informed the team that if they touch her she would be called out and if someone had pinch ran for her, that the home run would not count and be ruled a single.
Mallory Holtman, the first baseman for Central Washington, is the career home run leader in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Holtman had asked the umpire if she and her teammates could pick Sara Tucholsky up and carry her around the bases. The umpires agreed on this and sure enough Mallory Holtman and Shortstop Liz Wallace carried the injured Sara Tucholsky around the bases, touching each base with her left foot, all the way to home plate, where her teammates and coaches were waiting for her.
“The only thing I remember is that Mallory asked me which leg was the one that hurt,” Tucholsky said. “I told her it was my right leg and she said, ‘OK, we’re going to drop you down gently and you need to touch it with your left leg,’ and I said ‘OK, thank you very much.’”
“She said, ‘You deserve it, you hit it over the fence,’ and we all kind of just laughed.”
“We started laughing when we touched second base,” Holtman said. “I said, ‘I wonder what this must look like to other people.’”
“We didn’t know that she was a senior or that this was her first home run,” Wallace said Wednesday. “That makes the story more touching than it was. We just wanted to help her.”
This is a fantastic story, I mean seriously, this was an emotional moment in sports history. I was deeply moved by this and I'm sure everyone who has a heart was deeply touched by this. Much respect to the women of Central Washington, great sportsmanship.
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