A team of women softball players from the Morongo Band of Mission Indians won the gold at the 2006 North American Indigenous Games.

The Morongo Women's Fastpitch Team has been winning local tournaments for years. Branding themselves as Team California, they headed to the games in Colorado with players from other area tribes.

Mary Ann Andreas, the chairwoman of the tribe, managed the team. Her daughter and granddaughter played in the women's age 20-and-up bracket.

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Athletes Strike Gold (The Riverside Press-Enterprise 8/18)
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Relevant Links:
North American Indigenous Games - http://www.naig2006.com

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