ESPY Winners Sara Tucholsky, Mallory Holtman & Liz Wallace – Best Moment in Sports (2008)

ESPY Winners Sara Tucholsky, Mallory Holtman & Liz Wallace – Best Moment in Sports (2008)

On 26 April 2008 at a college softball game in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference between the Central Washington University Wildcats and the Western Oregon University Wolves an act of sportsmanship occurred that had to be seen to be believed.

As a consequence Sara Tucholsky, Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace all won ESPN’s 2008 ESPY Best Moment award for their selfless act of sportsmanship…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Moment_ESPY_Award

After Wolves right fielder Sara Tucholsky hits her first career home run in a conference tournament doubleheader but tears her ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) rounding first base, Wildcats first baseman Mallory Holtman and shortstop Liz Wallace carry Tucholsky around the bases lest her home run should be disallowed upon her receiving assistance from a teammate.

The full story as reported by ESPN writer Graham Hays is told in greater detail here…
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/columns/story?columnist=hays_graham&id=3372631

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