VIERA, Fla. — A speedy-pitch softball team was sharply criticized by U.S. star Cat Osterman and various of her teammates soon after it tweeted to President Donald Trump that its players were being standing for the countrywide anthem and respecting the flag.

The Scrap Yard Dawgs played USSSA Delight on Monday night in Florida. The due to the fact-deleted tweet integrated a image of the Dawgs standing and study: “Hey @realDonaldTrump Professional Fastpitch remaining played live @usssaspacecoast @USSSAPride Everyone respecting the FLAG!”

The 37-calendar year-previous Osterman tweeted just after the activity that she did not help the reviews by the staff and “will not signify them.” Monica Abbott, one more U.S. pitcher headed to the Tokyo Olympics future calendar year, said in a statement that she disagreed with the team’s concept.

“Being blind sided, with a tweet like this in the middle of the recreation, is the utter most disrespect to my Black teammates, all athletes and supporters,” Abbott mentioned in her Twitter post. “And this is not appropriate.”

United states Softball explained Tuesday in a statement on its Twitter account that it “fully supports” all national staff members and their legal rights to specific their beliefs.

Osterman advised the Houston Chronicle on Tuesday that the staff is “walking away from Scrap Lawn and will not wear Scrap Property uniforms.”

“For now, we’re 15 or 16 girls and coaches who do not have an group,” she explained. “Now we have to make a decision if we want to continue on playing and what that would appear like.”

It was the very first match for Scrap Lawn since the coronavirus pandemic shut down sporting activities all about the earth. The Dawgs are an unbiased crew dependent in Conroe, Texas, just north of Houston.

A message was remaining Tuesday night trying to get remark from the staff.

Osterman stated basic supervisor Connie May well despatched the tweet, and the gamers spoke to her after the sport.

“The GM attempted to defend her tweet by expressing it came from a great location in her heart and that she was very pleased of us taking the area and becoming ready to unite, so to converse,” Osterman explained to the Chronicle.

“This team is very united. We had been happy to choose the area, and it would have been a platform for exhibiting that sporting activities can go on. Having said that, it was hijacked by getting political.”