A non-profit softball program in east Wake County is trying to figure out how it will get through upcoming tournaments without some vital equipment. In softball stealing bases is legal, stealing equipment is not. But members of the East Wake Spirits softball organization are stepping up to the plate despite having a strike against them.

Hey Yard! Well I just got done with training camp for this summers National Team. We have a lot of new faces–a new head coach in Jay Miller, new players that will be exciting to watch. We have way more speed which I wasn't sure was possible since we already had Caitlin Lowe and Natasha Watley, but we have even more speed

FLINT. Michigan — Julie Owen would do anything to get on base for Oakland University’s softball team.

The Chicago Bandits and the Northern Illinois Lightning will play an exhibition softball game to benefit breast cancer research at 7 p.m. Sunday at Judson University in Elgin.

Five Central New York high school softball players earned first team all-state team. For the second straight year Pulaski pitcher Ashley Snyder in Class C and Stockbridge Valley pitcher Cheyenne Bumpus in Class D were given the honors.

For many years, kids trooped to Smokey Mountain only to help their parents scour for anything that could still be of value and then get something to eat. But now that Smokey Mountain has been converted into a public park where children of this side of Tondo play baseball and softball.