July 17, 2024
Port Chester’s Sophia Faraci makes a sensational catch during the “Baseball for All” national tournament at the Elizabethtown Sports Park in Elizabethtown, Ky., on July 7. It is the biggest girls’ baseball tourney in the U.S.
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It was pure athletic reaction, doing what comes naturally without time to think, and she was off with the crack of the bat, leaping off third base, body and glove extended to the max, stretching through the air as though being pulled by an invisible rope until there was the satisfying sound of ball thudding into the mitt as the adrenaline flowed through her. At that moment Port Chester's Sophia Faraci knew she was exactly where she belonged, right where she was supposed to be—playing third base as a highly sought after recruit for the elite New York Wonders in the "Baseball for All" national tournament—the biggest girls' baseball tournament in the U.S.
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