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OLYMPIANS SHARE THEIR WISDOM WITH A NEW GENERATION SOFTBALL PLAYERS GET TIPS FROM MEDALISTS.


Byline: Daily News

PALMDALE -- Young softball players got tips from former Team USA
For the Team USA playing in the World Baseball Classic, see USA Baseball.


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 Olympic gold Olympic Gold is the official video game of the XXV Olympic Summer Games, hosted by Barcelona, Spain in 1992. It was released for the Sega consoles, Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System, and Sega's handheld, Game Gear.  medalists on the Pro Fastpitch X-Treme Tour.

The three-day event three-day event

a competition in the pleasure horse sport comprising usually one day each for dressage, cross country and show jumping.
, held at Palmdale's Marie Kerr Park and Lancaster City Park, concludes today.

The PFX's most high-profile stars include three-time gold medalist pitcher Lisa Fernandez and second baseman Dot Richardson, a two-time gold medalist.

Outfielders Laura Berg and Jessica Mendoza, catcher Stacey Nuveman, second baseman Lovie Jung and utility player Tairia Flowers are former Olympic gold medalists too.

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(1) Two-time Olympic gold medalist Dot Richardson, above, shows softball players how to grip a bat at the instructional session at Marie Kerr Park in Palmdale on Saturday. The Pro Fastpitch X-Treme (PFX PFX Personal Information Exchange
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) tour of the Antelope Valley concludes today.

(2 -- 4) Softball players, above, practice with bats at the instructional session at Marie Kerr Park in Palmdale. At left, Dot Richardson introduces X-Treme softball players, from left, Tina Boutelle, Jennie Ritter rit·ter  
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 and twins Brandey and Courtney Weedt. Below, Richardson gives the softball players some hitting tips.

(5) X-Treme player Tina Boutelle gives pointers as she watches softball players swing their bats.

Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer
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Date:Sep 17, 2006
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