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Fairfield Wins 10-Year-Old Girls Softball State Title
Team is now headed to the regionals in Pennsylvania
The Fairfield 10-year-old girls softball All-Stars are headed to the East Regionals in Fleetsville, Pennsylvania after repeating as state champions last weekend.
Fairfield captured the Connecticut crown by sweeping a best-of-three series from Mystic by scores of 12-6 and 16-0 last weekend.
Previously, Fairfield had advanced to the state championship by beating Orange, 1-0, in seven innings in the section one finals.
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The success of the 10-year-old girls All-Stars is part of remarkable summer for Fairfield Little League teams, as the 10-year-old Fairfield American boys All-Stars also have reached the regional level in Rhode Island.
It is believed that these are the first two Little League squads from Fairfield to ever advance beyond the state level, and two additional teams from the town will have a chance to it as well --the Fairfield American 11- and 12-year-old boys All-Stars.
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The 1o-year-old girls have five players and all three coaches returning from last year's championship team, including managerDave McCartney.
The roster includes Shannon McCartney, Anna Rasmussen, Megan Szuchman, Brittany Romero , Abrianna Natoli, Susannah Johnson, Maddie Russell, Sophia Woolsey, Michaela O'Donnell, Kayla Bivens, Mary Rose Finnigan, Megan Belinsky and Zoe Holderied, along with assistant coaches Jarry Rasmussen and Doug Romero.
The East Regional games will be played at the Christy Mathewson Benton Little League Complex.
Fairfield opens against Vermont on Sunday (8 p.m.), then plays Rhode Island on Monday (3 p.m.) and Maine on Tuesday (8 p.m.)
The semifinals - featuring the top teams from the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions - are set for August 6, followed by the championship game the following day.
To help defray travel expenses, the team has put together a number of fundraisers:
Wednesday: Stop & Shop (King's Highway Cut-Off), until 7 p.m.
Wednesday: Sunny Daes (Post Road), 7:50-9 p.m.+
Thursday: Bagel King on Black Rock Tpke, 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Friday: Starbuck's (Post Road), 8:30-11 a.m.
Friday: Einstein's Bagel's @ Black Rock Tpke, 8:30-11 a.m
