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Week at a Glance
U.S. softball team showing signs of perfection
Posted: Wednesday June 14, 2000 01:29 PM
By Patricia Heys, CNNSI.com
They may not be playing against the toughest teams, but the U.S. national softball team is putting on a show as it travels across the country.
The team, which will compete at the Sydney Olympic Games in September, is on a 62-game tour called "Central Park to Sydney." The team usually competes against city all-star teams, but its most competitive games are against teams from the Women's Pro Softball League.
The national team is undefeated and repeatedly proving just how elite its players are. For three days in a row, U.S. pitchers have thrown perfect games. It started with Lori Harrigan on Saturday, and then Michelle Smith was perfect on Sunday. And Monday, veteran Lisa Fernandez joined them with another perfect game.
It's not a gold medal, but it's on the right track.
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Kim Perrot -- The WNBA named its Sportsmanship Award after former Comets guard Kim Perrot, who died of cancer in August. Perrot led Houston to the WNBA title in 1997 and 1998.
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Mary Pierce --The 25-year-old became the first Frenchwoman since 1967 to win the French Open, surviving defeating Conchita Martinez 6-2, 7-5.
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Marty Laudato -- The reigning WPSL's hitter of the year, hit her second career grand slam to give the Tampa Bay FireStix a 5-1 victory over the Ohio Pride.
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Steph Klaviter -- The Florida Wahoos pitcher struck out six,
walked none and allowed just three hits in her first start of the season.
She was named AT&T Wireless Services Pitcher of the Week.
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Pam Kometani -- The non-exempt LPGA Tour player from Honolulu, Hawaii
came from two shots back in the final round to win her first SBC Futures
Tour tournament, the seventh annual Greater Lima Futures Open.
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Meg Mallon -- The Australian shot a 5-under-par 67 to pull two strokes clear of Wendy Doolan and capture the Rochester International, her 12th victory in 14 years on the LPGA tour.
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Inge de Bruijn -- The Dutch swimmer broke the women's 50-meter freestyle record with a time of 24.39 seconds at the Brazilian swimming championships, continuing her world record-breaking spree. De Bruijn shaved 0.09 seconds from the old record of 24.48 that she set at the Dutch national championships in Amsterdam on June 4.
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Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates had lobbied for equal numbers of male and female participants for indoor volleyball and water polo. Originally the 12 women's squads for indoor volleyball were to be cut from 13 to 11 players to accommodate extra beach volleyball players and the late inclusion of women's water polo in the Games program. Women's water polo squads had initially been limited to 11 players but will now contain 13 players. Coates said the percentage of female competitors would increase from 34 percent at Atlanta to 38 percent in Sydney.
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Staying in the game
The U.S. named its roster for the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup, and a well-known face was back in the lineup. Briana Scurry, who has been sidelined for most of this year because of injuries, will compete. For the Americans' sake, hopefully she will stay healthy and be on the field at the Olympics.
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Still in the race
Defending champion Jeannie Longo remains in the hunt for the Women's Challenge cycling race after winning three stages. The Frenchwoman is preparing for her fifth Olympics. The 11-day race ends June 18.
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Basketball: Detroit at Cleveland, June 16, 7 p.m.
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Tennis: DFS Classic, Birmingham, England, June 12-18; Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 12-18
Golf: Evian Masters, Evian-les-Baines, France, June 16-18
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