[caption id="attachment_7245" align="alignleft" width="150"]<a href="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Marketplace3.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-7245" title="Marketplace3" src="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Marketplace3-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a> At left, Alexis Ortiz.[/caption]

Alexis Ortiz pitched a perfect game, no hits, no walks, during the WFC Showdown softball tournament in North Charleston on June 23. Her team, the Carolina Badkatz, beat Carolina Fire 9-0, and took second place overall. She went 4-1 with 25 strike outs, and also had a .500 batting average for the tournament. Alexis, 11, has been playing softball since she was 5, and she said it’s her favorite thing to do.