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br /span style="line-height: normal;" Serena Hawkes, the blonde odango haired center fielder, might not seem like the kind of person one would want on their baseball team. But, with the Tourists being a more free styled version of the game, and with Jacob Starr seeing how good of a center fielder she was, he drafted her straight away./spanbr /br /br / br /span style="line-height: normal;"It was the season that the Rome Tourists Baseball Club was founded, Lita Roman, a relief pitcher for Starr, had met up with Jacob one day to discuss possible recruits for the team. Jacob, not knowing who to ask, and not having the courage to ask random people at the time, had trouble finding people to play on his newly founded baseball team. He had told Lita all about his troubles and how he didn't think that the Tourists would get to play that season. Lita thought otherwise, and quickly mentioned Haruka, Mina, Raye, Amy, and Serena to him. Normally, he would be reluctant to let friends recommend their friends to him, but since he was desperate, he told Lita to call her friends and meet him at a local park the next day. /spanbr / br /span style="line-height: normal;"The next day at the local park, on baseball field number 2, Lita showed up with her friends and they all tried out for the team. All of them did very well, then it was Serena's turn. The odango haired blonde stepped up to the plate for her batting test, immediately tripped and fell flat on her face and started crying. Jacob helped her up, reminded her "There's no crying in baseball." And continued with the tryout, while her batting was average, it was good enough for Starr. /spanbr /br /br /span style="line-height: normal;"Soon afterwards, Jacob made the official announcement that the girls had made the team, and was looking forward to the first game with them. Practices and warmups went by before the first game, a home game against the Mobile Anchors came./spanbr /span style="line-height: normal;"The girls, for the most part had done pretty well, but the way Serena was batting along with how brutal the Anchors' defense was, Jacob thought that they might loose their very first backyard baseball game as they were down six to nothing, bases loaded. /spanbr /br /br /span style="line-height: normal;""Who's up next, Amy?" Starr asked "Serena, sir." Amy replied this made Jacob sigh, Serena had been striking out every single time she had stepped up to the plate. "Something wrong, sir?" Amy asked "Oh nothing, nothing at all!" Jacob replied and watched in the hopes that something would get the Tourists on the board. Serena walked up to home plate, the pitcher threw to her, strike one. The pitcher threw to her again, strike two. Jacob was becoming upset, if Serena struck out, he might've had to forfeit the game. Just as he was about to go out there and forfeit, emPing!/em Serena had hit the ball very hard. Jacob gasped as the ball Serena had hit was going, going, going….GONE! Serena had done it! She had hit a grand slam, allowing the Tourists to get back into the game!/spanbr /br /br /span style="line-height: normal;"Later, Serena fielded very well, catching every fly ball that came her way as well as hitting an RBI single and the game winning home run!/spanbr /br /span style="line-height: normal;"Ever since then, Jacob has always started Serena in center field, he had learned not to doubt her./span/div
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div align="center"span style="line-height: normal;"ustrongChapter 2: Serena Hawkes (The mid-first inning intermission)/strong/u/span/div
br /span style="line-height: normal;" Serena Hawkes, the blonde odango haired center fielder, might not seem like the kind of person one would want on their baseball team. But, with the Tourists being a more free styled version of the game, and with Jacob Starr seeing how good of a center fielder she was, he drafted her straight away./spanbr /br /br / br /span style="line-height: normal;"It was the season that the Rome Tourists Baseball Club was founded, Lita Roman, a relief pitcher for Starr, had met up with Jacob one day to discuss possible recruits for the team. Jacob, not knowing who to ask, and not having the courage to ask random people at the time, had trouble finding people to play on his newly founded baseball team. He had told Lita all about his troubles and how he didn't think that the Tourists would get to play that season. Lita thought otherwise, and quickly mentioned Haruka, Mina, Raye, Amy, and Serena to him. Normally, he would be reluctant to let friends recommend their friends to him, but since he was desperate, he told Lita to call her friends and meet him at a local park the next day. /spanbr / br /span style="line-height: normal;"The next day at the local park, on baseball field number 2, Lita showed up with her friends and they all tried out for the team. All of them did very well, then it was Serena's turn. The odango haired blonde stepped up to the plate for her batting test, immediately tripped and fell flat on her face and started crying. Jacob helped her up, reminded her "There's no crying in baseball." And continued with the tryout, while her batting was average, it was good enough for Starr. /spanbr /br /br /span style="line-height: normal;"Soon afterwards, Jacob made the official announcement that the girls had made the team, and was looking forward to the first game with them. Practices and warmups went by before the first game, a home game against the Mobile Anchors came./spanbr /span style="line-height: normal;"The girls, for the most part had done pretty well, but the way Serena was batting along with how brutal the Anchors' defense was, Jacob thought that they might loose their very first backyard baseball game as they were down six to nothing, bases loaded. /spanbr /br /br /span style="line-height: normal;""Who's up next, Amy?" Starr asked "Serena, sir." Amy replied this made Jacob sigh, Serena had been striking out every single time she had stepped up to the plate. "Something wrong, sir?" Amy asked "Oh nothing, nothing at all!" Jacob replied and watched in the hopes that something would get the Tourists on the board. Serena walked up to home plate, the pitcher threw to her, strike one. The pitcher threw to her again, strike two. Jacob was becoming upset, if Serena struck out, he might've had to forfeit the game. Just as he was about to go out there and forfeit, emPing!/em Serena had hit the ball very hard. Jacob gasped as the ball Serena had hit was going, going, going….GONE! Serena had done it! She had hit a grand slam, allowing the Tourists to get back into the game!/spanbr /br /br /span style="line-height: normal;"Later, Serena fielded very well, catching every fly ball that came her way as well as hitting an RBI single and the game winning home run!/spanbr /br /span style="line-height: normal;"Ever since then, Jacob has always started Serena in center field, he had learned not to doubt her./span/div
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