National Softball Association

Playing marathon softball games is nothing new for the 16-and-under Carolina Attitude from Welcome, N.C. After winning their second eight-inning game in the 2007 NSA Class A Girls Fastpitch World Series on Thursday against the Oly Fire, the Attitude stood at 4-0.

Ray Coley, coach of the Indian Land Lady Warriors, a 16-and-under team playing in the 2007 NSA Class A Girls Fastpitch World Series this week, didn't have the answers to what was going on with his team.

For a team out of the steel mill blue collar town of Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, the Furies' visit to Rock Hill this week has been a whole new experience.

David and Shelley Thomas grew up three miles apart on the Six Nations Indian Reservation in Ontario, Canada.

The motto says it all: Twelve players, one heart.

Monday morning marked the beginning of the 2007 NSA Class A girls Fastpitch World Series. But that doesn't mean that teams are coming in cold.

Listening to Erin Gibler, the head coach of the 12-and-under White Sox Training Academy softball team just south of Chicago, the fix is on.

FORT MILL -- What would possess two hairy, brawny men to don red, white and blue starred and striped jester's caps with dangling baubles and matching starburst tie-dyed T-shirts?

Local softball fields will be overtaken by more than 300 teams this week, and the city of Rock Hill is ready.