Champlin Park wins Minnesota softball state title behind trans pitcher's complete game shutout

https://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | June 6, 2025 | Amber Harding

[bitt]

Marissa Rothenberger pitched all 21 innings of the state tournament for Champlin Park

MINNEAPOLIS – The Champlin Park Rebels are state champions.

The No. 2-seeded Rebels shut out No. 4 Bloomington Jefferson, 6–0, in the Class AAAA Minnesota high school girls’ softball championship game Friday morning at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium on the campus of the University of Minnesota.

Once again, it was junior pitcher Marissa Rothenberger, a trans-identifying male athlete, who took the mound for Champlin Park — and never gave it up. Rothenberger threw a complete-game shutout, allowing just three hits and striking out six to secure the title. The performance capped off a dominant tournament run in which Rothenberger pitched all 21 innings across three games, giving up just two runs total and leading the Rebels to three-straight wins.

For the effort, Rothenberger was named to the All-Tournament team.

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[bray]

Probably 5 mph faster and he releases from 2 feet closer. Impossible for a girl to catch up but would not even make a boys baseball team.

[ChildOfThe60s]

It would be very interesting to know what each of the girls on this BOY’S team think about their victory. Are they genuinely pleased with themselves that they used a boy to beat up their opponents? Do they wonder if they could have gotten here without him? Which it is likely they could not have.

[bray]

The silence on sports shows speaks volumes. This Virtue Grandstanding must vibrate their ovaries.

[whitney69]

“Unfortunately, the vast majority of real girls (and their parents) continue to go along with this insanity, as if all is normal.”

Astute. But the problem with this is that it has been coming for 3 generations of programming from the media and the public school system. The participants have been programmed to accept advantageous stacking of the deck, and to celebrate it.

Creating any bill like title 9 only opened the door to loopholes. So if enough competitions are destroyed by withdrawing of competitors, then the competitions will have to be evaluated or disappear.

In Tacoma a couple of years ago the rec department started a basketball league for beginning players. It consisted of teams that played at the YMCA. It was to be officiated very loosely because it was an instruction league and not one for competition. They didn’t even keep score and nobody fouled out. So six of the teams were learning the game.

A local town, Puyallup, had their youth league disband and there were two teams that had been playing together for a couple of years that had no place to play. So Tacoma let them into this league. Big mistake. These kids were not beginning and had aspirations of competition. They were overpowering the beginning teams by over 50 points a game and laughing about it openly while mocking the beginners. And even though there was no score being taken, the parents took it and were so proud of their kids for taking advantage of the beginners. I was the chief official and I saw the program waning and kids upset about the treatment from these teams and their handlers. I made a suggestion to the program people that I would call the other six teams like we agreed to teach them, but I was willing to have these two teams play against each other and we would call it as basketball for them to learn also. So the key violations, traveling, and contact fouls were called they were forced to play the game competitively as that is what they wanted.

The players of these teams were frustrated as they were having to play competitively and correctly to the game unlike the other six teams that were learning and were given room to make the mistakes. But there wee learning the game at their level.

Soi here’s my suggestion. If a team has players that are not bio women, then they can play in a league designed for them. Make another league or competition designed for them where it is the decision for them to play.

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[daler]

How on earth does the team/city/school celebrate this “win?”

[PGalt]

TRUE! Comments BUMP!

[Kleon]

It would be very interesting to know what each of the girls on this BOY’S team think about their victory. Are they genuinely pleased with themselves that they used a boy to beat up their opponents? Do they wonder if they could have gotten here without him? Which it is likely they could not have.

They should be proud of their performance. Regardless of their pitcher, they hit very well and must have played some great defense.

[bert]

The people in question are from Minnesota.

Minnesota is no longer really America.

Minnesota has joined Canada

[ridesthemiles]

BILES JUST CAST ASIDE MILLIONS OF HER SUPPORTERS, IMO.

WHAT THE HELL IS SHE THINKING???

[JayGalt]

I don’t disagree. Refusing to participate would be the principled stance and put pressure on those that condone the practice but I believe the coaches, associations, schools and local authorities should step up to the plate, rather than putting the weight of changing these unfair practices which they have allowed to exist, on children and older competitors (college etc).
Some of these girls have trained for many years and their parents have supported their efforts through time & sacrifice. It’s hard to risk being dropped from the team by taking a stand, seeing years of effort and possible college scholarships be lost. Perhaps a good life lesson to sacrifice to do the right thing but it is abominable that callous, reality denying, virtue signaling, cowardly responsible parties are failing to do their job.

[JayGalt]

👍👍👍

[central_va]

Will Marissa end up buying a Subaru?

[dfwgator]

Go, Strong Woman, Go!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In the olden days a group of dads would have taken HIM out behind the bleachers and gelded him.

[bgill]

Coach Tim on the prowl again.

[Dan in Wichita]

Soi here’s my suggestion. If a team has players that are not bio women, then they can play in a league designed for them. Make another league or competition designed for them where it is the decision for them to play.

Your suggestion makes sense, which is precisely why it will never happen.

[SaveFerris]

Yeah, HE’S just a girl..........NOT

HIS parents must be so proud ... err .... PRIDE

[ChildOfThe60s]

They should be proud of their performance.

I'm not referring to that. I would like to know if they are proud to have won because of a male pitcher.

Not "we girls played well so it doesn't matter that the margin of our "victory" was a 6 ft tall boy pitcher". Their performances don't matter. By going along with the male pitcher, they as a team cheated. No getting around that. I'm curious how the girls rationalized that. Pretty poor life lesson IMO.

[SaveFerris]

[Why do people continue to accept this?]

It's why I fight but it ONLY works if people SHARE the
information - hopefully quick pictures to get across the
point and text - if we don't stand up NOW, God only knows
what's coming NEXT .........no, I don't make one penny off
any of this - just sick of watching Normal Society go to
Hell (literally)





anti-God, anti-Christian, spirit of antichrist...

That which was prophesied in Luke 17:28-32 will definitely and IS definitely coming true. It's shocking just how much of the world jumps on board with their Pride Parades, too.

Parents TAKING their CHILDREN to a Gay Pride Parade???!!! (Matthew 18:6)

Luke 17:32
King James Version

32 Remember Lot's wife.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A32&version=KJV

Has the world not had ENOUGH of this Godless Reprobate madness???

Do NO HARM, Christians.
NO violence suggested NOR implied.

Walk AWAY from this Sodom and Gomorrah Genesis 19 madness.



(Genesis chapter 19 / Luke chapter 17:28-32 / Romans 1:24-28, 32 / 2nd Peter 2:6-9)

[hanamizu]

If a boy can pretend he’s a girl, a professional baseball players can pretend they’re high-schoolers

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Why not? After all, age is just a social construct and if a 27-year old truly believes he’s 17-year old girl, who are we to deny his ‘truth’? /s