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3/12/2008 3:33 AM

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If you wanted to purchase tickets for the U.S. Olympic softball team's exhibition game May 1 against Robert Morris University at Consol Energy Park but haven't gotten around to it, you have struck out.

The game is a sellout.

For now.

Individual tickets went on sale Monday, and within a couple of hours all were sold.

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"We probably could have sold twice as many tickets," Washington Wild Things general manager Ross Vecchio said Tuesday morning. "The demand for tickets was pretty solid."

There is, however, a chance sales could go into extra innings and more tickets will be made available.

"It's all weather driven," Vecchio said. "If the weather cooperates leading into and on the day of the event, then we'll be putting bleachers behind the portable outfield fence."

A decision to add seats won't be made until April 30 at the earliest, and the morning of the game at the latest.

Vecchio said people who still want to purchase tickets should send an email to info@washingtonwildthings.com to be put on an email alert list and receive information if tickets become available.

The game is part of the three-time defending gold medal champions' 62-contest "Bound 4 Beijing" tour that will conclude July 26. The U.S. team already is 11-0 on the tour and has outscored its competition 118-0.

Veteran U.S. coach Mike Candrea is expected to announce his final 15-player roster for the Beijing Games on March 28.

n Peters Township native Mike Friedman appears to be in great position to make the U.S. Olympic track cycling team.

Friedman won a gold medal this winter at the World Cup event in China, and he's one of four sprinters who have received nominations to the USA Cycling talent pool for the Olympics.

A 2001 Peters Township High School graduate, Friedman will be competing for the national team at the UCI Track World Championships set for March 26-30 in Manchester, England. Friedman received a spot on the team in the men's scratch race based on his performance in the 2007-08 season.

n This week's sign that there are too many sports leagues: Pittsburgh is getting a second women's football team.

The National Women's Football Association on Monday announced that the Pittsburgh Force is the league's newest franchise. The Pittsburgh Passion left the NWFA after winning the league championship last year and has joined the Independent Women's Football League.

n It's good to see that the country is running so smoothly and efficiently that Congress can devote much of its time to investigating and fixing professional sports.

We must not have problems like a war, soaring gasoline prices, a sinking economy and an immigration issue. That means Congress is free to solve the many troubling issues of the nation, the ones that cause us to lose sleep each night. We must bring in the government to find out if the New England Patriots spied on an opponent, if the NFL Network will be included in your cable system's sports tier or expanded basic package or if some trainer stuck a needle in Roger Clemens' buttocks.

If only Congress could get the deficit under control, then it would have time to fix college football's BCS bowl system or dispose of boxing's alphabet soup organizations and require each weight class to have only one world champion.

Sports Editor Chris Dugan can be reached at dugan@observer-reporter.com

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