Team USA won their fourth consecutive gold medal at The World Games, defeating Chinese Taipei 5-0 on Sunday.
In the circle, Talons’ Megan Faraimo was dealing and threw a complete-game shutout. She held Chinese Taipei to three hits with no runs allowed while striking out 10 batters over seven innings.
Volts Tiare Jennings (2-for-4) and Amanda Lorenz (2-for-2) both had multi-hit games, each recording two hits in the gold medal match.
Sahvanna Jaquish (Talons) and Skylar Wallace (Bandits) both drove in runs with the long ball. In the top of the second, Jaquish launched a three-run blast to take the lead, then Wallace added insurance runs in the top of the second with a two-run homer.
Jennings was named the tournament MVP, going 8-for-20 across five games. She was clutch in Team USA’s 7-6 victory in extra innings over Japan that advanced them to the gold medal match.
The U.S. was aboard first against Japan with a two-run homer from Jennings in the opening frame. Wallace went long in that game as well, sending one over the right-field fence to tie the game at 4-4 in the fifth inning. In the 10th inning when Jennings came through with a bases-loaded walk-off single.
Volts pitcher Rachel Garcia logged 11 strikeouts in the win, throwing across 7.1 frames.
Savanna Collins is the Senior Reporter for the AUSL. You can follow her on X @savannaecollins.
