Montana high school softball player discovers long-lost sister on opposing team

Double play!A Montana high school softball player discovered she had a long-lost sister when she faced her sibling on the opposing team — and a teammate pointed out how much the pair looked alike.Samantha Rensvold, 19, was playing in a softball tournament in Belgrade, Mont., last August when a teammate noticed Kyann Dean, 18, on the opposing squad.Rensvold, who is adopted, knew she had a younger biological sister, but the closed adoption meant she didn’t know where her sister was or what she looked like.“I hadn’t seen her close up yet when my teammate was pointing out to me,” Rensvold told People on Sept.

30.“I was like, ‘There’s no way that this would happen to me right now,’” Rensvold added.Rensvold didn’t approach Dean after the game because she wasn’t certain they were related, but after telling her mom about the resemblance, they checked the tournament roster and saw Dean’s name.“My mom knew that that’s what my birth mom named her,” Rensvold said.

“So my mom was like, ‘That has to be your sister.That’s not a coincidence.’”Rensvold’s mom approached Dean’s family at the tournament, and the two compared their adopted daughters’ biological mother’s name and the hospital where the girls were born, which matched.When the sisters finally met, they shook hands in shock on the softball field and laughed.“There’s a girl on my all-state team who looks just like you, Rensvold’s teammate said in the clip, obtained by Inside Edition on Tuesday.“We were just freaking out.

We were in tears.It was like, ‘Oh my God,’” Rensvold’s mom told the outlet, which compared the sisters’ unexpected meeting to the 1998 movie “The Parent Trap,” starring Lindsay Lohan.In the film, Lohan plays twin sisters who meet unexpectedly at an all-girls summer camp and realize they look exactly alike.Rensvold and Dean were excited to find each other, but Rensvold revealed it took time to process the moment.“It’s like we didn...