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JUNE 13, 2010 12:45PM

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Yoshida pitches 4 innings in second start with Outlaws

Eri Yoshida

This photo taken when Eri Yoshida was pitching for the Japanese men's team.

Eri Yoshida, dubbed "The Knuckle Princess" and called "cute" in a recent news story, started her second game with the Chico Outlaws Saturday, June 12. She allowed one earned run and recorded her first stikeout with the Outlaws. She pitched for four innings in the Outlaws' 8-4 win over the Yuma Scorpions.

http://www.goldenbaseball.com/chico/ArDisplay.aspx?ID=5405&SecID=304

High school pitcher and Women's Baseball World Cup star Marti Sementelli to throw out first pitch in Dodgers Stadium

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/varsitytimesinsider/2010/06/baseball-sementelli-to-throw-out-first-pitch.html

Another view of Marti S

This photo of Marti Sementelli pitching was taken during the Eastern Women's Baseball Conference's fifth annual Memorial Day Diamond Classic, when she pitched a one-hit shutout against the Philadelphia Independence and won the game, 1-0, despite a great performance by the Independence's Kristin Mills Caldwell. (I had a better photo, but it wouldn't upload to this blog.)

Southern New Jersey high school baseball player, Kristi Twardziak earns scholar/athlete award

Kristi Twardziak and Vince Papale

Triton Regional High School varsity baseball player Kristi Twardziak stands beside former South Philly walk-on Eagles player Vince Papale (subject of the movie Invincible) during the Courier-Post Athlete Awards Banquet held Tuesday, June 8, at Valleybrook Country Club, Gloucester Township, NJ. Kristi's other sports include tennis, for which she has accepted a scholarship from Bloomsberg University in Pennsylvania. The photo below shows her pitching in a recent game. Both photos are from the Courier Post (NJ) newspaper.

Two interesting things about the photo with Kristi and Vince: Kristi apparently was honored more for her tennis than for her baseball, and Vince Papale's mother, Almira, was a member of the St. Raphael Bobbies, an area barnstorming baseball team, in the late 1930s before she married Vince's father. The latter fact I found on page 12 of the book Invincible.