Softball players from the Dirtdogs 10-Under team gather with Brianna Ramirez, third from left, during a Bases for Brainna fundraiser tournament at Madera South High School on Sunday. Ramirez, a Sanger High softball player, was shot in the eye by a stray bullet while sitting in a car last month.
Softball players across the Valley were at Madera South High School for a tournament this weekend, but not adorned with their typical jerseys or vocal team spirit.
Instead, all players wore the number 3 on their backs to honor Brianna Ramirez, the Sanger High student and fellow softball enthusiast who lost her eye in a shooting last month near her home in Parlier. Fresno County Detectives still don’t know who shot Ramirez Feb. 12 in the right eye during gang-related crossfire while she sat in the passenger seat of her mother’s car.
But Sunday at Madera South’s softball fields, Ramirez stayed true to the fiery heart she displayed in a press conference last week – where she told Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims “I got this.” She knew one thing; it was good to be back near a softball field.
And, Ramirez said, it’d be even better when she wears number 3 at the bat...