MISHAWAKA — Natali Finkhousen doesn't always hit when she pitches for the Elkhart High softball team.
On Wednesday, in the semifinals of the Class 4A Penn Sectional, Lions' coach Craig Sears wrote Finkhousen's name in the lineup.
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