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She finished the week with an 0.53 ERA and 20 strikeouts in 13⅓ innings, work that included a strong performance in the final game. Nevins looked the part in Irvine as she began her second summer with Team USA. It is tempting to believe the World Cup offered a glimpse of the kind of ace the Americans lacked a summer ago. So as Team USA builds toward August's ISF World Championship in the Netherlands, what did we see in Irvine? 1. And while that might not seem like all that long ago in the real world, it is an eternity in softball, which saw Team USA essentially reboot and start from scratch after winning the 2010 world championship, the last hurrah for the generation that played when the sport was part of the Olympic program. It was only the first step of the softball summer for the United States, but it came without a stumble.Ĭapped by a 5-2 win against Canada in Sunday's championship game, Team USA won all seven of its games in the World Cup of Softball in Irvine, California, to win the invitational for the seventh time in its nine-year history.Ī year after it lost to Japan twice in the event, including in the final, the United States went unbeaten in a World Cup for the first time since 2009 when the field included Japan (the Americans went 6-0 in a Japan-less field in 2012).
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