'I fit in here' - Softball star Carlee Wallace

Carlee Wallace celebrates her walk-off grand slam against Mississippi State.AuburnTigers.com

AUBURN, Ala. - Carlee Wallace knows it’s unconventional, but she loves blood. Even when it’s her own. Good thing, too, because the way Auburn’s junior catcher plays softball, there’s occasionally plenty of it on her uniform.

For her 21st birthday, Wallace asked for a suture kit for a present to replace the one she’s been using, her grandfather’s old Army kit.

“I’ve been practicing on fruit,” she says.

Against Mississippi State on April 30, Wallace required seven stitches in her chin and lip after a collision. While Auburn’s team physicians, Dr. Michael Goodlett and Dr. Siraj Abdullah treated her,…