The Champlin Park High School girls’ softball team won the Group 4A state championship on Friday with the help of a transgender-identifying male athlete who pitched all seven innings.
The No. 2-seeded Rebels beat the No. 4 Bloomington Jefferson, 6–0 at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium on the campus of the University of Minnesota. Transgender-identifying junior pitcher Marissa Rothenberger threw a complete-game shutout, giving up just three hits while striking out six.
“The performance capped off a dominant tournament run in which Rothenberger pitched all 21 innings across three games, giving up just two runs total and leading the Rebels to three-straight wins,” OutKick reported. “For the effort, Rothenberger was named to the All-Tournament team.”
Rothenberger pitched every inning in the quarterfinals against No. 7-seeded Eagen in
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