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Last swing: Special game marks rite of passage for Homewood youth softball players

When Homewood youth softball coach Hope Zawaski realized that 26 girls were “aging out” of junior level softball at the same time, she and her husband, Junior League President Jay Zawaski, decided to plan something special.

They organized the Last Swing game, a kind of swan song for the 13-year-olds who were leaving the Izaak Walton ballfields behind and graduating to the senior level, which plays across town at Apollo Park.

“We wanted to do…

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