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The Heat Is On

By Warren Rojas
Posted June 20, 2012 at 12:16pm

Sunscreen: check. Drink-filled cooler: check. Big foam finger: check.

Tickets to tonight’s Congressional Women’s Softball Game: ?

It’s gonna be a scorcher, folks. And not just because the mercury is climbing toward the triple digits. Even after the sun begins to take its leave of us, Capitol Hill will be sizzling with excitement as lady lawmakers square off against female hacks for bragging rights in the fourth annual softball smack down, to be held at the Watkins Recreation Center at 420 12th Street SE.

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