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KMC LL softballers miss out on Series berth

The Kaiserslautern Military Community All-Stars 11-12-year-old softball team dropped their third straight game Friday at the Little League Baseball’s European Little League Softball Regional tournament, 14-8 to Italy-champion Emilia. The loss eliminated KMC from contention for a berth at next month’s Little League Softball World Series at Portland, Ore.

No details about the game were available as late as Saturday morning. The KMC girls were to play the Netherlands  on Saturday afternoon in their final game at the Milan suburb of Bollatte, Italy. Emilia, at 3-0, was to play the Netherlands in Saturday’s late game, then play the Dutch team again in Sunday morning’s title game. That winner advances to the Little League Softball World Series. 
 

 

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Gregory Broome is an experienced and accomplished community sports journalist. Officially a native of Iowa, Broome grew up a Department of Defense dependent at sites all over the United States and Germany.


He finally settled in Florida, earning a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Central Florida.

Broome began his journalism career in in 2004 as a sports writer for the Ocala Star-Banner in Ocala, Fla., covering high school, college and community sports and earning recognition for his work from the Florida Press Club. In 2009 Broome was named the first sports information director at College of Central Florida, an NJCAA member school, where he launched the program's website and social media pages and revamped its promotional and game-day operations.

Broome joined Stars and Stripes in October of 2012.


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