Oli's Bound To Get Her Homers

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April 24, 2003

By Dick Harmon
Deseret News

PROVO, Utah - They can walk her, pitch around her, refuse to play ball when she's at the plate, but if remaining foes don't - bank on it - in the next 10 games, Oli Keohohou will break her single season home-run mark of 21 with ease.

The only way it doesn't happen is if every pitcher the BYU junior faces rolls her grounders. She doesn't have a hockey stick or a nine-iron.

Coach Gordon Eakin put Keohohou as leadoff batter in the lineup to penalize the no-pitch strategy. Two Hawaiian freshmen sluggers, Ashlyn Russell and Ianeta Lei, have made opponents pay who walk the mighty Oli.

"It's boring," Keohohou describes the walks she gets at bat.

"It's just boring because I can't help my team."

Pitch if you dare. Oli's gonna get her homers.

What makes her so good?

She's all business. Call her cell phone and her pickup message is direct: "Hi, Oli. Leave it."

Can't get more direct than that.

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