Olympic Softball Gold Medal goes to the US

The Gold Medal game of Olympic Softball was played in Athens, Greece, August 23, 2004. The game featured the United States vs. Australia.

The Americans struck gold for their 3rd Gold medal in the 3 Olympics that have had softball. They defeated Australia 5 - 1.

Australia had defeated Japan 3 - 0 the day before, giving Australia the Silver Medal and Japan the Bronze.

The 8 teams competing in Athens were the United States, Australia (who were two-time Olympic bronze medallists before this Olympics), Canada, 1996 Olympic Softball silver medallist China, Chinese Taipei, Greece, Italy, and 2000 Olympic Softball silver medallist Japan.

This year the US dominated in a way that not been seen in the past, outscoring their opponents 51 - 1.

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The tremendous Hitting Stats for this year's US Olympic Softball team are below.

	Hitting
Name	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG.	SLG	OBP
AMICO Leah	8	25	4	5	1	-	-	5	-	1	-	-	.200	.240	.200
BERG Laura	8	19	4	7	-	-	-	1	-	1	1	-	.368	.368	.368
BUSTOS Crystl	9	26	9	9	-	-	5	10	2	4	1	-	.346	.923	.414
FERNANDEZ Lisa	9	22	3	12	4	-	1	8	5	-	-	-	.545	.864	.643
FINCH Jennie	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.000	-	-
HARRIGAN Lori	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.000	-	-
JUNG Lovieanne	9	20	5	6	1	-	-	3	5	4	1	-	.300	.350	.462
KRETSCHMAN Kelly	9	21	4	7	3	1	1	5	-	5	-	1	.333	.714	.348
MENDOZA Jessica	9	20	6	5	1	1	-	5	3	3	-	-	.250	.400	.385
NUVEMAN Stacey	8	16	2	5	-	-	2	5	4	2	-	-	.313	.688	.429
OSTERMAN Catherine	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.000	-	-
WATLEY Natasha	9	30	8	12	1	1	-	4	2	2	4	1	.400	.500	.438
FLOWERS Tairia	5	2	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.000	-	.000
FREED Amanda	6	6	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	3	-	1	.167	.333	.167
TOPPING Jenny	4	6	-	4	-	1	-	-	2	-	-	-	.667	1.000	.750
Totals		213	51	73	12	4	9	46	23	25	7	3	.343	.563	.416

On the pages of this website I profile some of the great hitters on the Olympic Softball teams and determine what makes them great and how to know what they know and even duplicate what they do to help your own hitting.

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