National Champs

The Link does not work! Otherwise, in my earlier post, this story would have been there...

Denis Dougherty's sports buzz: Kaukauna softball team crowned national champion Talk about doing it the hard way. After losing its first game, the Kaukauna traveling team came back to win seven straight games en route to winning the championship in the National Softball Association's 12-and-under Super World Series over the weekend in Peoria, Ill.

Update:

After sending an email to Denis Dougherty, the author about the non-working link, he checked it out for me, and sent me this reply:

I'm not sure what happened, but here is the story that appeared in Tuesday's afternoon paper.

Thanks,

Denis

Kaukauna softball team crowned national champs

Talk about doing it the hard way.
After losing its first game, the Kaukauna traveling team came back to win seven straight games en route to winning the championship in the
National Softball Association’s Class B 12-and-under Super World Series over the weekend in Peoria, Ill.
The team, nicknamed the Ghosts, just like the high school mascot, opened with a 9-1 loss to the Kentucky Stingers to drop into the losers’ bracket.
The Ghosts then came back to beat the Indiana Pride 8-4 in extra innings, ASA Extreme of Seattle
3-0, Roseville, Calif., Thunder 7-1, Hurricanes of North Carolina 9-5 and the SCS Vipers of Detroit 5-3.
That put the team into the final against the previously unbeaten Fort Wayne, Ind., Fire, which it beat 7-1 and 8-4.
“The kids played their hearts out,” said head coach Dennis Lauer, whose team had previously won the state NSA and Amateur Softball Association titles. “It would have been so easy to give up after the first loss and just say maybe we didn’t
belong here, but that didn’t happen. The whole team performed well, with strong hitting throughout the lineup and strong
defense by all the kids on the field.”
Lauren Danner was the winning pitcher in all seven games.