Mayumi Shinozuka plays a round of pinball during the first league play of the Springfield Belles And Chimes, a local chapter of Belles And Chimes Pinball, an international network of women pinballers, at 417 Taphouse on Monday, Feb. 19.

Melanie Tarrant has been playing pinball competitively for about 10 months and can vividly recall her first tournament.

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