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After a dramatic victory in Wednesday’s semifinal, the Champlin Park rebels go to the State Minnesota High School Softball Championship, and so is its transgender pitcher Marissa Rothenberger.
After giving up two early races at an unstable start, Rothenberger settled and launched a complete game to help No. 2, Champlin Park Edge, beyond No. 6 White Bear Lake, 3-2, in the state semifinals of the AAAA class. Rothenberger gave seven hits and two races (one cattle) and struck out three in the effort.
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Marissa Rothenberger celebrates in the shelter with teammates after the dramatic victory of Champlin Park. (Amber Harding)
But it was Rothenberger’s batting that really caused the return. The Junior led the fifth entrance with a double that began the Champlin Park rally to tie the game at 2 each. Then, at the bottom of the seventh, Rothenberger, which was 2 per 3 on the plate, opened the entrance with another double. Rothenberger was replaced by a “courtesy corridor”, who finally scored the game’s winning race with a two -out success of the Junior gardener Av Parent.
Champlin Park will face No. 4 sown Bloomington Jefferson in the championship game on Friday at the Jane Sage Cowles stadium at the University of Minnesota. Jefferson bothered Forest Lake with the best sown on Wednesday.
But while Champlin Park celebrated his victory, the scene at White Bear Lake Dugout was very different. Many of the girls were visibly excited, some cried, such as the reality of the loss of the season.
A player turned to his father and asked: “Why can’t you do something?”
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No father was willing to register, but Outkick spoke with two parents of White Bear Lake in the stands that expressed a deep frustration with the system that allowed their daughters to compete against a male athlete, namely, the Democratic politicians who prioritize the ideology about equity.
“You are seeing a whole team of future Republicans,” said a man.
Another father agreed, saying that this could be a revealing experience for parents: “They are like,” Oh, are my son’s dreams crushed? Maybe I made the wrong decisions. “
Despite the executive order of President Donald Trump, the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) allows athletes to compete in events consisting of their gender identity, regardless of biological sex. MSHSL said that the eligibility of transgender athletes is “determined by state law, through the Minnesota Human Rights Law and the Minnesota Constitution.”
In spite of the national government bodies, such as US softball. And the NCAA, instituting eligibility policies only for women, such laws at the state level create application gaps that leave parents and female athletes feeling helpless.
And today in North Mankato, Minnesota, that helplessness was written on the faces of White Bear Lake players.
Marsa Rothenberger Transgender Clepe (Amber Harding)
When a girl left the countryside, her father met her behind the bench. “That is not fair,” he said.
“That is Minnesota,” he replied.
