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After a dramatic and intermediary victory in the semi -finals on Wednesday, the Rebels of Champlin Park head for the Softball State Championship for Girls of Minnesota High School – just like their transgender launcher Marissa Rothenberger.
After abandoning two first races in a Tremblant departure, Rothenberger settled and launched a full match to help the edge of Champlin Park with 2nd seeded in front of Lake White Bear n ° 6, 3-2, in the semi-final of the AAAA class state. Rothenberger granted seven strokes and two points (a deserved) and withdrew three in the effort.
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Marissa Rothenberger celebrated in the canoe with teammates after the dramatic victory of Champlin Park. (Amber Harding)
But it was Rothenberger’s blow that really triggered the return. The junior led the fifth round with a double that started the Champlin Park rally to equalize the match to 2 each. Then, at the bottom of the seventh, Rothenberger – who went 2 for 3 to marble – opened the Channel with another double. Rothenberger was replaced by a “courtesy runner”, who finally marked the winning race on a safe blow of two withdrawals from the Ava parent junior voltiseur.
Champlin Park will face Bloomington Jefferson n ° 4 during the championship match on Friday at the Jane Sage Cowles stadium of the University of Minnesota. Jefferson upset Forest Lake to seed earlier Wednesday.
But while Champlin Park celebrated his victory again, the scene in the Pirogue of Lake White Bear was very different. Many girls were visibly emotional, some in tears, while the reality of the end of the season took place.
A player turned to his father and asked, “Why can’t you do something?”
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No parent was willing to record, but Outkick spoke with two papas of Lake White Bear in the stands that expressed deep frustration with the system that allowed their daughters to compete with a male athlete – namely democratic politicians who prioritize the ideology on faillitity.
“You look at a whole team of future Republicans,” said a man.
Another father agreed, saying that it could be a revealing experience for parents: “They are like”, Oh, they crush my child’s dreams? Maybe I made the wrong choices. “”
Despite President Donald Trump’s executive decree, the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) allows students athletes to participate in events in accordance with their gender identity, regardless of biological sex. MSHSL said that the eligibility of transgender students is “determined by state law, through Minnesota Human Rights Act and the Minnesota Constitution”.
Despite the national guiding bodies – such as American softball and NCAA – establishing eligibility policies reserved for women, such laws at the level of the application create applications that leave parents and defenseless female athletes.
And today, in North Mankato, Minnesota, this helplessness has been written everywhere on the faces of White Bear Lake players.
Transgender launcher Marissa Rothenberger (Amber Harding)
As a girl left the field, her father met her behind the canoe. “It’s not fair,” she said.
“It’s Minnesota,” he replied.
