As far as baseball teams go, the Chattanooga Baseball Club proved to be a pretty good fastpitch softball team.

The boys’ 17s team came from behind and defeated the Fury Fastpitch 18-under Gold softball team 6-3 at Frost Stadium on Tuesday in an exhibition Battle of the Sexes fastpitch game. A portion of the proceeds goes to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The Baseball Club played the Fury’s 16-under team in a late second game.

The Baseball Club trailed 3-0 before Dylan Coleman, who turns 18 today and will be a senior at McMinn Central High School in the upcoming school year, homered to center field leading off the fifth inning. When asked what he hit, Coleman said: “I have no idea what it was, but it was fast.”

Coleman also had an infield single off the bat handle.

“I’ll take anything I can get,” Coleman said. “I was just glad to make contact.”

The girls kept Coleman busy at third base, too, but he played well. GPS’s Whitney Hammond did drop a bunt in front of him for a hit early in the game.

“There was no way I was going to get her,” Coleman said. “She’s too fast.”

East Ridge’s Gunner Miller had a home run in addition to handling the catching duty. Three former prep pitchers from the Chattanooga area pitched for the boys — the starter being Miller’s sister, April, who threw three shutout innings.

She pitched at East Ridge through the 1992 season and for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga through ’96. Her married name is Raschke and she has an 8-year-old daughter, Jadyn; a 7-year-old son, Miller; and a 4-month-old son, Blaze.

“It had been 12 years, then I threw about three or four times getting ready for this,” April said. “I’ll probably be sore tommorrow. I did a little better than I thought I would, but I definitely don’t have the stamina I used to have.”

The Fury’s starting pitcher, Holly Thomas, also pitched three scoreless innings, and she had six strikeouts. Fury coach Pat Moyer said Thomas wasn’t feeling well, and with the team playing in a national-qualifying tournament this weekend, he took her out as a precaution.

“No excuses, though,” Moyer said. “Those guys are exceptional athletes, and once they see pitching two or three times, they adjust.”

Among the highlights for the girls were right fielder Asia Terry, from Murfreesboro Riverdale, and center fielder Kamri Chester, from GPS, each throwing out a runner at the plate in the same inning. Catcher Bri Shoemake, who played first base for Ooltewah, made the tags.

“I know in softball you don’t always get the opportunities to score a lot of runs,” said boys’ coach Steve Garland, Soddy-Daisy High School’s baseball coach. “We had a chance to score, so I was sending them.

“I have a lot of respect for these girls. I know there was a lot of mouthing before the game, but the main thing for us was that everything was just in fun. I know the guys have respect for them, too. I’m just glad we could make some money for a good cause. I hope for the guys and girls that this is something they’ll remember for a long time.”

Eight families with Wish children were in attendance, and some of the youngsters got to be batboys.

Mayor Ron Littlefield read a prepared statement to the crowd before the first game proclaiming June 3, 2008, as Make-A-Wish Day in Chattanooga. Monetary donations, as well as things like frequent-flier miles, were collected throughout the game.

“It takes $3,000 to make one wish,” Moyer said. “I know we easily exceeded that.”