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.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Today was about today,바카라 게임 웹사이트� she said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�If I use 바카라 게임 웹사이트�08 as motivation, then I바카라 게임 웹사이트�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. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�There바카라 게임 웹사이트�s a lot that goes on with just trying to get into a groove of: I바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve always done this. It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s the same game I바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve always played,바카라 게임 웹사이트� 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.바카라 게임 웹사이트�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.바카라 게임 웹사이트�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.바카라 게임 웹사이트�It's kind of sad that there can't be any spectators, especially no foreign spectators,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Abbott said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�This is an event that doesn't happen all the time, so it's disappointing not to have people in the stands 바카라 게임 웹사이트� but also not having Japanese fans when Japan is such a softball-loving country.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Players sweated off pounds on the artificial turf.바카라 게임 웹사이트�We trained in Midland, Texas, were the turf was 150 degrees,바카라 게임 웹사이트� U.S. coach Ken Eriksen said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�So we're prepared for Fukushima at 145 degrees.바카라 게임 웹사이트�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.바카라 게임 웹사이트�'08 we didn't have a bad tournament," Osterman said. "We just had a game that didn't go our way.바카라 게임 웹사이트�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.바카라 게임 웹사이트�We have a pitching plan on how we want to execute innings,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Canada coach Mark Smith said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�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.바카라 게임 웹사이트�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.바카라 게임 웹사이트�A no-hitter is a no-hitter. It doesn't mean anything to us,바카라 게임 웹사이트� she said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�We want a gold medal. So if that puts us in a better position to win, then I'm OK with it.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Jenna Caira, who played for Syracuse, allowed Suzannah Brookshire바카라 게임 웹사이트�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 Forbes바카라 게임 웹사이트� 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 Salling바카라 게임 웹사이트�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.