Luck is often talked about in the world of sports. Many people don’t believe in luck, but it’s hard to dispute it when a team seems so unlucky. This is the case for the girls’ softball team, which has suffered big injuries recently. Both of the Mavrich sisters are now injured, narrowing the roster and removing both a key outfielder and shortstop for a few games. Brittany Mavrich, the team’s shortstop, is out with a broken fibula. Strangely enough, she played on her injury. “I didn’t know that I had a broken leg,” Brittany Mavrich said. According to her doctor, she had been walking on an injured leg for three weeks. “Luckily, it was healing,” Brittany Mavrich said. Her sister, Hannah Mavrich, was also injured. She was hit in the head with a fly ball in the game against Western Beaver April 4. Fortunately, it wasn’t a serious injury, although there was severe swelling. “[Her bump] was the size of a softball,” Brittany Mavrich said. Hannah is already playing again. Soon after the injury she was ready “to dive back into [softball],” she said. Even with the odds stacked against the team, the girls remain confident in their team members. According to Brittany, the loss of a player “won’t hurt us… we have a lot of strong girls.” In addition to major injuries, two members of the team are victims of celiac disease, with a third being gluten intolerant. Celiac disease is a disorder that a person is born with, making them intolerant to gluten. If they do eat the gluten found in everyday products, including bread, pastas and even cookies, they can damage the lining of their intestines, which is responsible for soaking up nutrition. According to celiac.com, 1 in 133 people are born with celiac disease. This makes having two people in one sport with the disorder very unlikely. Some would even attribute this to bad luck.