In a rainy championship battle between the JFK Islanders and the Academy Cougars, it looked like the Islanders were in ...

Highland's Lydia Shaffer was clutch times two. The softball player found herself at the plate with her team down 6-3 with two outs in the seventh inning. She delivered a three-run home run to send it ...

RED CLOUD, Neb. (KOLN) - “Let her fly now. Let her fly,” hollered Cynthia Sims, mimicking her mother who coached softball in Red Cloud. “Don’t worry about a thing. You just get that bat up. You just ...

Sonia Cook had it all planned out. She was going to retire as a coach last year — there even was a retirement celebration at the softball park where many former players showed up — then just teach ...

Now an 8th-grader at Westfield Middle School in west suburban Bloomingdale, Maya Melendez has become one of the top players in the area for the Beverly Bandits, a national travel team. Extra Inning ...