It's not often that a defending national champion collegiate sports program looks at Las Vegas to try to find high school talent, but that was the case when the University of Michigan signed Spring Valley High School senior softball player Molly Bausher to a national letter of intent earlier this year.

Playing the sport since she was 4 years old, the speedy left-handed leadoff batter caught the eye of the national champion Wolverines while playing for the Worth Firecrackers Gold 18-and-under club team based out of Huntington Beach, Calif.