1.   Goose eggs are looming ad infinitum for US Olympic softball pitcher Lisa Fernandez, who has hurled four consecutive perfect games.

2.   He looks more like a Thursday night softball pitcher with one eye on the ball and the other on the neighborhood tavern.

3.   His body was mostly under water, his arms were wind-milling like some fast-pitch softball pitcher.

4.   Softball pitcher Nancy Evans is also on the list, but her number has yet to be retired.

5.   The kind of numbers one determined softball pitcher can amass are like nothing a follower of baseball can grasp.

6.   UCLA softball pitcher Amanda Freed had almost five weeks worth of unused competitive fire to burn Friday afternoon, which was bad news for Cal State Northridge.

7.   Win Boggs, a renowned softball pitcher, taught his son the knuckleball and Wade Boggs tossed it as a high school pitcher in Tampa, Fla.

8.   Among them were softball pitcher Dot Richardson, high jumper Amy Acuff and pole vaulter Stacy Dragila.

9.   Johnny Vander Meer has nothing on U.S. Olympic softball pitcher Lisa Fernandez.