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The average collegiate softball player draws a walk every eight at-bats. The average leadoff hitter walks even more frequently. Natalie Hernandez is not average. In any sense of the word. Exactly 167 times during the regular season, Hernandez s...

Natalie Hernandez has been on a hot streak at the plate for the Illinois-Chicago Flames, and the inspiration for her focus comes from her mother, who is struggling in a battle against cancer.

Kim Givens was having a rough day. Stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire last summer, the fourth-year head coach at Hillcrest (Simpsonville, S.C.) spotted help in the distance. Approaching Givens was Paul Roberts, a well-known club sof...

It was an atmosphere of heightened excitement that a tourism bureau salivates over. Earlier this month, Oklahoma City aroused the jealousy of even the country's premier metropolises. On one side of the city, you found the Oklahoma City Thunder hos...

The idea came to Savannah Dorsey faster than the spinning wheel in her ceramics class at Central Crossing (Grove City, Ohio). What better way to make the most out of her art project than to create a Mother's Day gift? Savannah dug in, quickly thro...

Andrea Chiaradio zoned in on catcher Julie Royer's signals. The junior pitcher from Stonington (Conn.) was one out away from accomplishing a feat she had never done for her high school team: throw a no-hitter. But this wasn't your garden variety n...

There are some people you just have to root for. Katie Browne, a senior catcher at Zachary (La.), is one of those people. Browne was honored last week with the Louisiana Young Heroes Award for the courage, fortitude and perseverance she's show...

Don't get mad at Alexander Central (Taylorsville, N.C.) senior pitcher Chelsea Wilkinson if she can't recall the last time she gave up a run in a high school softball game. Since the last time an opponent crossed the plate against the righteous right...

A slew of high-profile tournaments graced softball diamonds nationwide last weekend, providing teams an opportunity to make a move in Wednesday's POWERADE FAB 50 national rankings and separate themselves as strong contenders for deep runs in their st...

READ MORE: Florida's best head to Kissimmee Classic First impressions are a funny thing. Initially, two pitchers from Winter Springs (Fla.) seem very different. On one hand, you have Elizabeth Birle, a smiley, gregarious junior who oozes positi...

READ MORE: Back-to-back perfect games at Winter Springs Florida high school softball's Kissimmee Klassic has turned into a colossal collision course between two budding softball powerhouses. Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) and Winter Springs (Fla.) will...

POWERADE FAB 50 ESPNHS Team Rankings | Meet the No. 1 Team: The Woodlands The noise reverberated off the trees in The Woodlands, Texas. Ripples of excitement could be felt as far away as Houston, 30 miles south. After all, it was time for the firs...

Last April 27, Brett Nave, the softball coach at East Limestone High School in Athens, Ala., woke up with a lot on his mind. Senior Day was approaching, and he was fully immersed in finalizing logistics for what was to be a celebration of a highly ac...

This is not a story about softball. Nor is this a story for the fainthearted, the weak-minded or the jelly-legged. This is a story for all of us who are inspired by people who exemplify the can-do, never-give-up spirit so necessary in sports and p...

Erin Gabriel is from Poland. No, not that Poland. Poland, Ohio. A town that boasts 3,000 people in one square mile of land. So you'll have to forgive Gabriel if she wants to frame her passport, a document she didn't need until USA Softball invited he...

Question: What sets you apart from the other contestants? Elizabeth Coakley stared. She was allowed 20 seconds for an answer, but only a moment to decide how to answer. No pressure, either. It was only the Miss Virginia Teen USA pageant. Should s...