Down by 2 with 2 runners on, and a full count in the bottom of the last inning, senior Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University swung for the fences and hit a home run. This was the semifinals of the playoffs, and Sara essentially won the game for her team, as long as she touched all the bases.

Rounding first, she collapsed with a torn ACL. She crawled back to first but could do no more. The first-base coach said she would be called out if her teammates tried to help her. Or, the umpire said, a pinch runner could be called in, and the homer would count as a single.

Then, members of the Central Washington University softball team stunned spectators by carrying Tucholsky around the bases Saturday so the three-run homer would count — an act that contributed to their own elimination from the playoffs.

“The only thing I remember is that Mallory asked me which leg was the one that hurt,” Tucholsky said. “I told her it was my right leg and she said, ‘OK, we’re going to drop you down gently and you need to touch it with your left leg,’ and I said ‘OK, thank you very much.”

“She said, ‘You deserve it, you hit it over the fence,’ and we all kind of just laughed.”

“I really didn’t say too much. I was trying to breathe,” she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday.

As the trio reached home plate, Tucholsky said, the entire Western Oregon team was in tears. Haven’t you women seen a league of their own? Sheesh.

(original article taken from here)