Last night's ESPYs (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly) featured the usual cast of superstar athletes with Kobe Bryant, Alex Rodriguez and Tiger Woods all taking home awards. However, among the many sports icons and celebrities were Central Washington University softball players Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace who took home the ESPY for the year's best moment.

CWU softball player Mallory Holtman, Western Oregon University player Sara Tucholsky and CWU's Liz Wallace pose with their ESPY awards. Getty images

If you're a regular ESPN viewer you will have already heard about Holtman and Wallace's memorable moment this past April. In a home game on Senior Day against Western Oregon, an opposing outfielder, senior Sara Tucholsky, hit her first-ever career home run, a three-run shot in the top of the second. However, in tagging first base, Tucholsky tore her ACL and fell to the base path unable to carry herself around the diamond.

With her teammates unable to aid her, Tucholsky was ready to settle for a single and a pinch runner when Holtman and Wallace volunteered to help her around the bases (defensive players are in the field of play and thus allowed to touch a base runner). The small Ellensburg crowd watched as the two CWU players carried Tucholsky to second, third and home for her first home run and final play of her collegiate career.

This sequence was all captured on a home video camera by a member of the crowd and was featured on Sportcenter, gaining national recognition. Holtman and Wallace were later interviewed on CBS' The Early Show, ESPN First Take and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and can now chalk up more accolades to their resume. In an event hosted by Justin Timberlake and with the major awards going to Tiger Woods and the Boston Celtics, it was refreshing to see a couple of local athletes being honored without having won the U.S. Open or an NBA Title.