Canada's solo homer stuns China 1-0 at Beijing Olympics
15/8/2008 17:02
The Canadian's deciseve solo homer pounded the Chinese softballers 1-0 at
the Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing today.
Jennifer Yee hit a sudden home
run in the six inning to gift Canada the third consecutive victory and dampen
the host's dream to seek a podium finish at softball's last Olympic
arena.
"There were lucky to deliver a homer in the later games and the
situation following is very difficlut for us," said Chinese head coach Wang
Lihong.
With both sides' steady pitch in the circle, few hits were easily
made in the first five innings.
The Canadian starter Lauren Bay tossed seven
impressive innings, striking out six and allowing two hits.
Lauren's Chinese
counterpart Lu Wei also worked seven complete innings and retired seven batters,
yet giving up three hits and one run.
Jennifer Yee brought life to the
Canadian offence in the top six inning, gifting the visitor with a solo homer
which blast across the right outfield and stunned Chinese girls's
confidence.
The host side had to made a desperate fight in the closing inning
but the "golden" outscoring oppotunity was wasted.
Li Chunxia, Zhang Ai and
Guo Jia loaded the bases successively, only seeing three batters fail to hit a
scoring chance in front of a fanatic 5000 home crowds.
"The home run is the
turning point. My young players are becoming more and nervous then and cannot
settle down to hit ball despite faced with the golden chance," commented
Wang.
With a won-lost record of 2-2, China will face world number two Japan
tomorrow and need at least two wins in the following three games to set a berth
for the finals.
The eight teams will play in a round-robin fomat at the
preliminaries and the top four winners will contest for medals in the page
system.
Xinhua
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