Sanders, Team USA Advance to Gold Medal Game

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Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns softball shortstop DJ Sanders and the U.S. Junior Women's National Team (JWNT) secured a spot in the Gold Medal game of the 2015 WBSC Junior Women's World Championship (JWWC) with a 14-2 (5 inn.) win over Japan Friday evening at OGE Energy Field in Oklahoma City.

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[MelRock]

The game is on now. DJ is batting over .600 in the tournament.

[MelRock]

Middle of the 1st USA 0 Japan 0

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End of 1 USA 0 Japan 0

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Results
Aug 9th United States 10 - Chinese Taipei 0
Aug 10th United States 20 - Italy 0
Aug 10th United States 6 - Australia 1
Aug 11th United States 16 - Brazil 0
Aug 11th United States 7 - Puerto Rico 2
Aug 12th United States 16 - Mexico 0
Aug 12th United States 7 - Czech Republic 0
Aug 13th United States 15 - Canada 0
Aug 14th Japan 2 - United States 14
Different pitcher tonight for Japan.

[MelRock]

Sanders up with 2 outs and 2 on, runners on 2nd and 3rd

[MelRock]

DJ batting .650, batting 9th

[MelRock]

DJ reaches for a pitch, hits softly in front of the plate and is thrown out at 1st.
I hope I am not jinxing her.
Middle of the 2nd USA 0 Japan 0

[MelRock]

Japan defeated Puerto Rico 5-0 early today to get in the gold medal game.

Mike and the program getting a little love from the announcers. Although I do not agree with everything they are saying about us. Still it was compliments.

[MelRock]

End of 2nd USA 0 Japan 0

USA catcher throws out Japanese runner trying to steal 2nd to end the inning.

[MelRock]

USA with a 1 out 3 run home run

[MelRock]

There is a 20 send clock behind home plate for pitches. I really like that it speeds up the game. I think this is a rule already but not too many umpires call it. I could be wrong, who knows.