Wednesday, September 27, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 7
U.S. softball team takes gold after popup slips from glove
The Associated Press
BLACKTOWN, Australia — Laura Berg deserved this moment of luck, this one ball drifting in a gentle arc through a soft, steady rain, up into the lights, just far enough to make trouble for the Japanese left fielder playing shallow on the slick grass.
The whole American softball team, so beaten down five days ago that the players resorted to a mock voodoo ritual in the shower to wash away their jinx, deserved this magical moment yesterday when the ball landed smack in the fielder's glove and then squirtd free.
One fortuitous fly ball on a night when they could manage only one hit, and suddenly the beacquered U.S. women were 2-1 victors against Japan, and Olympic champions again.
All the luck had gone against them, and they had lost three extraraining games in a row by a total of four runs after winning 112 straight and capturing every major international tournament since 1983.
But when Berg's pop up popped out of Shiori Koseki's glove, scoring pinch-runner Jennifer McFalls from second, everything seemed right again, as if they had taken wrong turns away from their destiny and found their way back.
The American women piled on one another at home, then grabbed large and small flags, and ran around the stadium, bellowing to the thunderous, flashing sky, cavorting giddily as the rain came
down harder and harder.
"Come on, bring it on, rain," a thoroughly soaked Michele Smith shouted, tossing back her head to feel the rain splash on her face as she opened her arms and twirled in delight. "This has been our whole experience. Rain and hard luck. Tough, tough games. And now, finally, gold."
With her long, blond braids flying, Berg had watched the flight of her opposite-field shot to left as she rounded first and felt her heart pounding when she saw McFalls pounding toward home.
"I was so excited I wanted to run with Jenny," Berg said. "All I could think was 'Run. Jenny. run.'"
Berg had blamed herself for Japan's 1-0 lead on a fourth-inning homer by Reika Utsuji, only the second hit off Lisa Fernandez. Berg raced back to the chain-link fence in center, leapt high with her glove outstretched, but couldn't quite reach Utsuji's liner.
"I should have found a way to catch the ball." Berg insisted. "I should have climbed the fence. I should have done something. I told Lisa I gave her."
Berg might have had a shot at a catch, but she was no more responsible for that run than Fernandez or Dot Richardson or Crystl Bustos were for the three losses. Yet each of them sought to take responsibility last week, saying that it was their fault, that they had to dig down deeper and find a way to make amends.
"I came off the mound and blew a fuse a few times, trying to figure out what was going on," said Fernandez, who yielded three hits in this game. "There wasn't a game where I had it all together. I wasn't on automatic. I was struggling."
The strength of this team was the way it reacted to something it had never experienced — defeat.
"We showed a lot of heart and guts." Berg said.
No one showed more heart than Berg, who has ridden an emotional roller coaster the past year. Her fliance, Eric Kidd, has been paralyzed from the waist down since an accident last year. This game came on his 33rd birthday.
The 25-year-old Berg, from Fresno, Calif., also was the only player on the team whose family couldn't come to the Olympics because of work and responsibilities back home. So the other players and their families did their best to make sure she didn't feel lonely.
"We're her family." Richardson said. "We're all family."
They lost together and, in this title game against Japan, they found a way to win together.
While the American players celebrated, Kosei walked in slowly from left field, her shoulders heaving as she sobbed.
"It was just my misjudgment," Koseki said softly and sadly through an interpreter.
One ball popping out of a glove, making all the difference for her, for Berg, for both teams.
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