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Mendoza.
 For the tournament, Team
USA hit .453, while American
pitchers allowed opponents to
hit just .148 while posting a
0.41 earned run average.
 The strong performance
proved the United States is
again atop the international
softball world, a title that was
in doubt after the U.S. team fell
to Canada and then Japan in
the championship game of last
year's World Cup.


 "We worked hard this year,"
Jung said. "Last year, we just
kind of came together and went
out and played. We learned
from that. We practiced harder
and worked more together
leading up to this."
 The sixth-largest crowd in
ASA Hall of Fame Stadium
history turned out to watch the .
Americans win, the 6,234 fans
having to find standing-room-
only space wherever they
could.
 "For a lot of us, and I know
I've said it a lot, but we wanted


to come in and play well for
this crowd," Mendoza said.
"We wanted to come in and
prove ourselves. We were a lit-
tle better prepared this time
around and more mentally pre-
pared for (Ueno)."
 Ueno ran into trouble in the
first inning, when two errors al-
lowed Mendoza to come up
with two runners on. She sin-
gled in Caitlin Lowe, and
Natasha Watley then scored on
a passed ball. In the fourth in-
ning, Nuveman and Jung took
the Japanese ace over the cen-


ter field wall for solo home
runs.
 Ueno was pulled before the
 start of the fifth inning. Her re-
 placement, Yuko Endo, allowed
 Duran to blast a shot over the
Left field fence in the sixth in-
ning to complete the United
States' scoring.
 "Last year, it had been two
 years since we sav (Ueno), and
 she had gotten bigger and
 stronger," Mendoza said.
 "This time we were ready for
 her."
 The Americans outscored -


opponents 59-3 in six games,
and Mendoza was the catalyst,
hitting .611 for the tourney
with seven runs scored, 11 hits,
three home runs and 16 RBIs.
 Jung led the team with a .615
batting average and went deep
twice.
 Osterman and Tennessee
pitcher Monica Abbott both
finished 2-0 for the Americans.
 Next up for Team USA is a
trip to Beijing, site of the 2008
Olympics,.for the 2006 World
Championships, Aug. 27
through Sept. 5.


 "The World Championships
are a completely different
thing," Jung said. "Both (the
World Cup) and the World
Championships are important,
but over there, you don't know
what you're going to eat every
day, you don't know the coun-
try. You don't have the fans
that we were able to have here.
It's a different atmosphere."
 Next year's World Cup is
back at ASA Hall of Fame Sta-
dium July 12 through July 16.
 Jeff Johncox writes for The
Norman (Okla.) Transcript.


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