NATIONAL TEAM

Tuesday, July 29
Women's National Team to play
exhibition game in Waldorf, MD

Later this summer, across the Chesapeake Bay from the Wesley Wolverines, the USA Softball - Women's National Team will play an exhibition game against a specially selected Maryland All-Stars collegiate team.

CAC's Rachel Johnson

The contest is schedule for Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at Regency Furniture Stadium -- home of the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs -- 11765 St. Linus Drive, Waldorf. 

Gates will open at 5 PM with the first pitch at 7 PM. An autograph session immediately follows the game. 

CLICK HERE to purchase tickets in advance.

Reportedly, Salisbury Sea Gulls All-Americans senior pitcher Rachel Johnson (Preston, MD) and junior infielder Kim Dorsey (Baltimore, MD) from our own Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) will join the Maryland All-Star team. 

CAC's Kim Dorsey

As Wolverine players and fans know, Salisbury University advanced this past season to the NCAA Division III Softball Championship game and finished the year as the No. 2 team in the nation.

Other Maryland natives expected on the field will come from Division I programs including Delaware, Fordham, UMBC and Arizona State. 

The Maryland All-Stars team will be coached by Terry Burdette from Hood College Blazers.

All-American Lauren Gibson, a standout for the past four years as a Tennessee Lady Volunteer, gets top billing as the National Team's hometown favorite. Lauren hails from Pasadena, Maryland, where she led Chesapeake High School to TWO consecutive class 4A state championships. 

The games are part of a tour, where the National Team plays the best of local college softball athletes in several states across the nation as well as outside the USA in Canada and Italy. It culminates with the ISF Women's World Championship in the Netherlands in August. CLICK HERE (then scroll to bottom of page) for the tour's full schedule.

CLICK HERE for the full 24-member National Team squad.