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The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) girls’ softball authorities tournament is officially nether mode — and truthful is the contention surrounding Champlin Park’s starting pitcher.
Marissa Rothenberger, a trans-identifying antheral athlete, threw a complete-game shutout Wednesday greeting arsenic No. 2-seeded Champlin Park defeated No. 7 Eagan, 5-0, successful the Class AAAA quarterfinals. Rothenberger allowed 7 hits and struck retired 4 successful the win.
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Champlin Park and Eagan players shingle hands pursuing the quarterfinals circular of the Minnesota Girls' Softball State Tournament. (Amber Harding/OutKick)
Rothenberger, whose information successful girls’ sports highlights a increasing inclination crossed the authorities and country, threw 14 shutout innings successful back-to-back games successful the sectional finals to assistance Champlin Park scope the authorities tournament.
On Wednesday, not everyone successful the stands was clapping.
Two Eagan parents, some of whom requested anonymity for the involvement of their daughters, expressed vexation and disappointment aft the game. One mother, wearing a "Save Girls’ Sports" T-shirt, said the result felt inevitable.
"I was beauteous disappointed and frustrated," she told OutKick. "I deliberation we've seen this hap implicit and implicit again to our girls. You look online, and you spot women transitioning to men, and they're not dominating immoderate of the men's sports. You don’t spot that. But connected the women's side, you spot it implicit and implicit again crossed the country. It's ace frustrating. I knew it was yet going to hap to my daughter. I was bittersweet to spot it hap to her."
Her vexation wasn’t conscionable astir the scoreboard.
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"I deliberation it's truly unfair," she said. "I'm conscionable truly disappointed that each the schools didn't set unneurotic and say, ‘Enough is enough. We're going to support our girls and we're going to person an equitable playing tract for everyone.’"
A begetter of different Eagan subordinate agreed, calling the concern a wide usurpation of national law.
"Yeah, I deliberation it's wholly unfair — usurpation of national Title IX," helium said. "And the information that the authorities of Minnesota wants to disregard that is ridiculous. If they privation to proceed to play sports — which I deliberation is large — you tin play baseball. But to bash that to girls and conscionable marque everybody enactment quiescent astir worldly is beauteous ridiculous."
Marissa Rothenberger threw a implicit crippled shutout successful the quarterfinals circular of the Minnesota Girls' Softball State Tournament. (Amber Harding/OutKick)
He added that, portion athletes are trained to vie nether immoderate circumstances, knowing Rothenberger would beryllium connected the mound added a furniture of frustration.
"As athletes, you spell retired determination and you play the manus you’re given, truthful you privation to proceed to compete," helium said. "But again, it's frustrating."
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Champlin Park volition look No. 6 White Bear Lake successful the semifinals connected Wednesday afternoon.
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