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As the wind whirled the dirt on the infield sprayed the outfield grass, a place the ball would never reach.

Sara Fetterhoff, a pitcher for the Lyndon State Hornets softball team stood atop the hill facing home plate. Forty feet away stood Sebastion Lury, a reporter for the Critic. His assignment, face Fetterhoff, the softball teams best pitcher.
Perched atop the mound grasping the ball in her hand, Fetterhoff stared at Lury like a Hawk getting ready to retrieve its dinner.

Lury stood in at the plate awaiting the first offer. The pitcher released the ball and before he knew what happened Lury was searching for the ball, strike one. Another strike whistled by his bat, then a third, had there been an umpire he would have come out of his crouch and screamed, “strike three, yourrrr out!”

Lury switched sided hoping his luck would be better. His wish would not come true. After looking at a pitch in the dirt, he swung for one that made him look foolish. The next pitch bounced away to the backstop. Fetterhoff again wound up and delivered… swing and a miss. On the next pitch Lury made contact and smacked a week fly ball to where the first baseman hangs out, it was called out number two.

Hoping for a better result, Lury switched sides again, this time to his natural right-handed side. His luck would not change. He would swing and miss on pitch number one. Then he whiffed again. On the next pitch he popped it to the backstop, still down in the count, 0-2. One last chance to prove himself, Fetterhoff leaned back and delivered, a swing and a miss, her catcher popped out of her crouch and made the walk to the mound to congratulate her as a catcher would in a real game.

Lury’s little experiment was a failure. He made contact on only two pitches and struck out twice. Proof girls dominate the game of softball.