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May 22, 2008

Amey Takes Aim: WRV’s Fougerousse shows true spirit of competition

By Andy Amey The Tribune Star Thu May 22, 2008, 12:32 AM EDT

TERRE HAUTE — I’ve had some back issues of my own in the past few weeks, as you may recall.

So when I saw White River Valley softball pitcher Stephanie Fougerousse pick up a ball off the ground Monday evening at the Clay City Sectional, kind of half kneeling and approaching the ball from an angle, my rooting interest for that game against Shakamak was decided.

I was rooting for Shakamak, so she wouldn’t try to play another game, but I was rooting for her to keep it close.

I don’t know if a 4-0 loss counts as close in Stephanie’s book — I think she might already be mad at me for writing in the game story that she was crying — but it worked for me. I had a tear or two of my own watching her compete in obvious agony, and if I’d had any of my wonder drugs in my pocket I’d have been at the WRV dugout offering them to her.

“That probably wouldn’t have been a good idea,” her mother — and coach — Ruan Fougerousse said after the game. “She’d have probably started laughing out there [if she’d taken painkillers].”

Actually, she did laugh a couple of times. She was having fun — when she wasn’t having pain spasms. She even made a diving catch of a bunt, then threw from one knee to get a double play.

I may have to go home and take a pill just from watching that.

I hadn’t seen her pitch, so I don’t know how much the back pain affected her. Ruan said Stephanie didn’t have her fastball — “One time she brought it, then the tears came,” Ruan said — and she did allow seven hits, but she also struck out 11 and had a pretty good assortment of other stuff.

After the game, Stephanie was actually pretty upbeat. At a visit to the chiropractor earlier in the day, a pinched nerve was detected that might also relate to the rotator cuff problem she’s played with for two years, so she’s looking to come back better than ever if she can work those kinks out.

“It could have gotten ugly,” Ruan said. “I’m glad we didn’t embarrass ourselves.”

No indeed. What a competitor. Besides the tears, I had some chills, and for once not just because of this spring’s weather.

• • •

• Just asking — I’ve been amazed through the years and am no longer surprised by any clutch offensive plays made in the NBA playoffs by Robert Horry, now of the San Antonio Spurs.

But considering what’s happened the past two years (Horry vs. Steve Nash, Horry vs. David West) does his nickname — Big Shot Bob — have a whole new connotation?

• Umpire news — Wabash Valley Officials Association umpires working softball sectionals this week are Dan Halladay at Indianapolis North Central, Chuck Schroeder and Danny Sheilds at Decatur Central, Steve Morris at Bloomington North, Joe Reed and Penny Fredrick at Southmont, Michiael Shannon at Roncalli, Charlie Cook at Washington, Larry Higgins and Mark Talpas at South Knox, Dave Benningfield at Riverton Parke, Rick Devylder at Indianapolis Lutheran and Terry Tackett at Loogootee.

In the college ranks, Doug and Sally Keller are or have worked an NCAA Division II regional at Houston, Steve McCrillis a Division I regional in Tennessee and Mike Papinchock the MCC tournament at Marion, a junior college regional and the national junior college world series at Bloomington, Ill.



Andy Amey can be reached after 4 p.m. for comments or news items at (812) 231-4277 or at 1-800-783-8742; by e-mail at andy.amey@tribstar.com; by mail at P.O. Box 149, Terre Haute, 47808; or by fax at (812) 231-4321.

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