Richmond's Marina Denmore and Sara Hopwood will be suiting up for the national women's softball team in a pair of upcoming tournaments in preparation for next month's Pan American Championships in Puerto Rico.
Denmore is fresh off an outstanding senior season pitching at Oregon State University. The Point Grey secondary graduate was an All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention pick this past season after compiling a 21-13 record to become the first Oregon State pitcher since 2007 to win 20 games.
She posted a career-best 3.00 ERA and also shattered her previous highs by tallying 19 complete games and six shutouts.
Last summer, Demore joined the national for the first time. She appeared for her country at both the 2012 Scotiabank Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship and the US World Cup of Softball VII.
Hopwood, 24, enjoyed a decorated collegiate career at Indiana-Purdue University where she established several school records.
This week, the Canadian team is in Oklahoma City for the US World Cup of Softball which gets underway Thursday. It's then north of the border for the Canadian Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship, July 16-22 at Softball City in Surrey.
