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Dylan Doogs, Oswego ride eight-run inning, hold off Oswego East rally to win series finale: ‘Kind of a relief’ · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Dylan Dukes Aswego ride eight run inning, hold off Aswego
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  Speaker 1: East rally to win series finale. Kind of a relief
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  Speaker 1: Written by Joshua Welge. This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Dylan Dukes
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  Speaker 1: and Oswego needed a course correction going into their Crosstown
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  Speaker 1: Series finale Thursday. The Panthers dropped their first two games
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  Speaker 1: to Oswego East and had lost their last four games
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  Speaker 1: over the last week. The dam broke in a big way.
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  Speaker 1: Oswego sent twelve batters to the plate in an eight
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  Speaker 1: run fourth inning. The Panthers needed all that offense to
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  Speaker 1: hold off visiting Oswego East nine to seven to salvage
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  Speaker 1: the final game of the three game Southwest Prairie Conference series.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of a relief. Duke said of the
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  Speaker 1: big inning that he played a big role in not
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  Speaker 1: so much pressure on us pitchers could pitch with a lead.
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  Speaker 1: We Go fourteen sixteen four to eight, trailing two to
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  Speaker 1: one after Oswego East sixteen thirteen seventy five scored twice
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  Speaker 1: in the top of the fourth, got a Drew Kleinhan
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  Speaker 1: single and Graham Schwab bunt single to start it's half
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  Speaker 1: of the inning. Dukes, who singled and scored in the
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  Speaker 1: first inning, singled in Kleinhans with the tying run. Logmanni's
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  Speaker 1: squeeze bunt brought in Schwab with the go ahead run.
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  Speaker 1: Five of us we Goo's first six batters reached in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth, with seven total hits in the inning, all singles.
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  Speaker 1: A clean hand single his second app out of the
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  Speaker 1: inning made it seven to two. It's like trust the
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  Speaker 1: next the next guy, get the next guy up, keep
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  Speaker 1: it moving, said Dugs, who reached base his first three
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  Speaker 1: plate appearances. Just looking to get something to hit. They
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  Speaker 1: leave something over the plate, try to get some damage done.
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  Speaker 1: A sight for sore eyes for Oswego, which had totaled
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  Speaker 1: nine runs during its four game losing streak. The Panthers
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  Speaker 1: had traffic multiple base runners in each of the first
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  Speaker 1: three innings Thursday, but were limited to one run with
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  Speaker 1: two runners caught stealing. Oswego assistant coach John Bacchio said
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  Speaker 1: after a good practice Wednesday, the team bought in with
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  Speaker 1: their approaches at the plate, moving runners, getting a couple
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  Speaker 1: bunths down. We needed that inning. That is the most
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  Speaker 1: runs we have scored in an inning in a long time,
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  Speaker 1: maybe all year, Baccio said, A big win for us,
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  Speaker 1: especially mentally. I think we were questioning ourselves a little bit. Mentally.
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  Speaker 1: We've done some good things this year, but we've been
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  Speaker 1: slumping a little bit. Oswego East lineup, meanwhile, has been
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  Speaker 1: red hot of late, averaging nearly nine runs over its
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  Speaker 1: last fourteen games, with wins in the last four. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't go quietly Thursday. Devin Wheaton's infield single scored Dominic
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  Speaker 1: Batista and Chase Lafin's singled in two to close Aswego's
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  Speaker 1: seven run lead to nine to five in the sixth.
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  Speaker 1: A sixth run came home when the throw to first
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  Speaker 1: and a drop third strike was high. Batista led off
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  Speaker 1: the seventh with a single and scored on a wheat
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  Speaker 1: and sacrifice fly. It was good to see us still
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  Speaker 1: be in it and try to come back at the end,
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  Speaker 1: Batista said. Our lineup is full throughout. We even have
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  Speaker 1: guys on the bench that can hit come into the
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  Speaker 1: game like they did at the end. We're confident in
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  Speaker 1: our lineup. That confidence is buoyed by the return of Batista.
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  Speaker 1: A uic recruit ranked the state's number three prospect in
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  Speaker 1: the class of twenty twenty six by Prep Baseball Report.
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  Speaker 1: In the preseason, Batista has generated MLB draft buzz, but
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  Speaker 1: the senior centerfielder broke the hamdmate bone in his wrist
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  Speaker 1: the first at bat of the spring. He finally returned
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  Speaker 1: to the lineup a little over a week ago. Definitely,
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  Speaker 1: it was a thought in the back of my mind
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  Speaker 1: about not coming back, but I was just trusting the process,
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  Speaker 1: taking it one day at a time, Batista said. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: I came back and I'm blessed to be here. Batista's
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  Speaker 1: left handed bat has raked since his return. He's batting
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  Speaker 1: point four to three three and thirty at bats with
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  Speaker 1: six extra base hits and tripled and scored in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth Thursday, Oswego East's top three hitters are all batting
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  Speaker 1: over point four zero zero, with Oklahoma State commit Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Tucker at point four zero zero with eleven homers and
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  Speaker 1: thirty RBIs. It's good to have Battista back. Oswego East
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  Speaker 1: coach Brian Schaeffer said it changes the dynamic of the
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  Speaker 1: team in general. The energy, the excitement every day is
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  Speaker 1: drastically different. Now with him healthy, Oswego had excitement on
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  Speaker 1: its side at the end. Thursday, Senior aiden Ja Kay's
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  Speaker 1: touched for the five runs in three innings of relief,
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  Speaker 1: got his sixth strikeout with the tying run at the
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  Speaker 1: plate to end it. Good for him, He's had a
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  Speaker 1: good two years for us. Bacchio said, they got some
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  Speaker 1: good hitters in that lineup. I told him go right
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  Speaker 1: after them. He came through for us. That's a good
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  Speaker 1: hitting team. He did what he had to do.