FIRST COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASEBALL GAME IN OVER 100 YEARS PLAYED

On Sunday, May 3, the first all-women’s college baseball game since 1900 was scheduled to be played at Springfield College in Massachusetts. Athletes from at least twelve colleges and universities were slated to converge in Springfield for the first women’s college baseball game since Alabama College played Georgia College in March, 1900.

The May 3 contest, dubbed the “Friendship Game” by organizers, was to involve over 25 players from such New England schools as MIT, Brown, Bates, the University of Massachusetts and Boston University, as well as Springfield College. Among the players expected were Team USA veteran Karen Costes and Australian Christal Fitzgerald, who is presently the only woman playing men’s college varsity baseball at Daniel Webster College. The game was set to be played on a regulation diamond, going seven innings and following all NCAA baseball rules and regulations.