Ohio Northern senior Ashley Sujkowski helps Team USA win Silver medal at 2012 World Cup women's baseball tournament

By Tim Glon

| USA National Women's Baseball Team site |

ADA — Ohio Northern senior shortstop Ashley Sujkowski helped the 2012 USA Women's Baseball team win the Silver medal at the IBAF Women's World Baseball Cup in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Aug. 10-19.

Team USA won the silver medal after defeating Canada 17-4 in the semifinals, assuring itself of a medal for the fifth time in the five World Cup tournaments.

USA fell 3-0 to three-time defending champion Japan in the finals. Japan has won the world title in 2012, '10 and '08 and the United States has won Gold in 2004 and 2006.

The Americans posted a 6-3 record in the tournament, going 5-2 in the round-robin portion of play.

Sujkowski appeared in two games in the tournament as a relief pitcher, going 0-1 with a 9.00 ERA, allowing one run in one inning of work in her two appearances.

She made the 20-woman roster on the USA national women's baseball team during nationwide team tryouts June 2-Aug. 1.

Sujkowski has been a member of Team USA for the past three seasons, and helped the Americans win the bronze medal at the 2010 World Cup in Venezuela.