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The winners of a softball tournament were ecstatic about their victory. More importantly, however, they remembered one of their teammates, who died at a team camping outing. To remember him, they wore blue rubber wristbands . According to Outsports.com , it was a very emotional victory. “Shortly after the champagne stopped spraying, the tears started flowing. Joe Peltier, who plays outfield and catcher and also coaches the Boston Alley Gators in the B-Division, has been playing in the Gay Softball World Series since 1984 – and on Sept. 3, he became a two-time champion when the final out was registered in suburban Chicago at the 35th edition of the international tournament hosted by the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA). The Gators defeated the Knoxville Cyclones 9-3 in the championship game, which was Peltier’s first title since an A-Division win in Los Angeles in 1992 while playing for the Boston Fritz. The win was dedicated to former teammate Dave Hildebrandt, who died at a team camping function on Aug. 3, 2008. Peltier and his teammates wore blue rubber wristbands in Hildebrandt’s honor.