Cat Osterman looked ahead, not behind, in the start of the United States' quest to regain the Olympic softball gold medal, 13 years after she lost the championship game.A 38-year-old left-hander and one of two remaining players from 2008, Osterman pitched one hit ball over six innings and struck out nine to beat Italy 2-0 on Wednesday in the searing heat and wilting humidity as the Olympics got underway.맥스카지노�Today was about today,맥스카지노� she said. 맥스카지노�If I use 맥스카지노�08 as motivation, then I맥스카지노�m selfish. This is not about me. This is not about a silver medal that happened. This is about this team and allowing these athletes that are younger than me to be able to live out an Olympic dream and hopefully get to that top step on the podium. So today was totally about how are we going to beat Italy and how am I going to help this team get started."Michelle Moultrie singled in a run in the fourth inning for the top-ranked U.S., which lost the title to Japan 3-1 at the 2008 Beijing Games. Janie Reed, the wife of Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Jake Reed, added a sacrifice fly in the fifth. 맥스카지노�There맥스카지노�s a lot that goes on with just trying to get into a groove of: I맥스카지노�ve always done this. It맥스카지노�s the same game I맥스카지노�ve always played,맥스카지노� said Moultrie, a 31-year-old outfielder who joined the national team in 2011.Osterman walked none, hit two batters and gave up her only hit to Andrea Filler, a single leading off the fourth. The last remaining player from the 2004 gold medalists and pitching 2 1/2 months before her intended retirement, Osterman improved to 6-1 in Olympic play with 66 strikeouts in 38 innings.맥스카지노�The body doesn't recover as fast," she said. "Coachie likes to remind me sometimes I'm not as flexible, so I have to adjust my pitches a little bit. But I think the biggest thing is my mentality and my competitiveness has stayed the same.맥스카지노�Monica Abbott, a 35-year-old lefty who relieved in the 2008 gold medal game, struck out the side in the seventh for the save. She may start Thursday morning's game against Canada, part of an entire Olympics played with no fans.맥스카지노�It's kind of sad that there can't be any spectators, especially no foreign spectators,맥스카지노� Abbott said. 맥스카지노�This is an event that doesn't happen all the time, so it's disappointing not to have people in the stands 맥스카지노� but also not having Japanese fans when Japan is such a softball-loving country.맥스카지노�Players sweated off pounds on the artificial turf.맥스카지노�We trained in Midland, Texas, were the turf was 150 degrees,맥스카지노� U.S. coach Ken Eriksen said. 맥스카지노�So we're prepared for Fukushima at 145 degrees.맥스카지노�Loser Greta Cecchetti, a pitcher for Texas A&M Corpus Christi, allowed two runs and four hits in four-plus innings.Valerie Arioto led off the fourth with an infield hit up the middle, beating the throw from second baseman Andrea Filler. Ali Aguilar sacrificed, and Moultrie grounded a single on the artificial turf past Filler and into right field, sending Arioto sliding across the plate.Alexia Lacatena, an 18-year-old from Stanhope, New Jersey, who will pitch for the University of Kentucky next spring, relieved and allowed a sacrifice fly to Reed, whose husband made his big league debut on July 6 and had six appearances before he was optioned Tuesday to Triple-A Oklahoma City.Italy's last nine batters were retired in order.맥스카지노�'08 we didn't have a bad tournament," Osterman said. "We just had a game that didn't go our way.맥스카지노�JAPAN 8, AUSTRALIA 1Yukiko Ueno settled down from a shaky start to allow two hits over 4 1/3 innings with seven strikeouts, and host Japan beat Australia in the first event of the Olympics.Ueno, 39, defeated the U.S. in the 2008 gold medal game.Minori Naito and Saki Yamazaki hit two-run homers off loser Kaia Parnaby, and Yu Yamamoto, who had three RBIs, added a two-run drive against Tarni Stepto in the fifth that ended the game under a rout rule.CANADA 4, MEXICO 0Sara Groenewegen was removed after four hitless innings of a combined two-hitter, and Jenn Salling drove in two runs.맥스카지노�We have a pitching plan on how we want to execute innings,맥스카지노� Canada coach Mark Smith said. 맥스카지노�Over the next six or seven days, given the heat and the humidity, we know that stamina, maintaining strength is going to be an important thing.맥스카지노�Groenewegen, the 2015 Big Ten Player of the Year and two-time Big Ten Pitcher of the Year at Minnesota, struck out three and walked one for the win. She was pulled after 54 pitches.맥스카지노�A no-hitter is a no-hitter. It doesn't mean anything to us,맥스카지노� she said. 맥스카지노�We want a gold medal. So if that puts us in a better position to win, then I'm OK with it.맥스카지노�Jenna Caira, who played for Syracuse, allowed Suzannah Brookshire맥스카지노�s infield single to the shortstop hole with one out in the fifth. Danielle Lawrie, the 34-year-old sister of former major league infielder Brett Lawrie, finished the two-hitter, giving up Tatyana Forbes맥스카지노� single on a chopper to the right side leading off the sixth.Kaleigh Rafter and Salling had RBI singles in the first off loser Dallas Escobedo, and Salling맥스카지노�s home run made it 3-0 in the third. Kelsey Harshman, who played for Wisconsin, added a run-scoring single on a 0-2 pitch in the fourth.Escobedo gave up four runs, seven hits and five walks in four innings for Mexico, which made its Olympic softball debut.