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Teagan Darif’s bat, Addie Russell’s arm lead to Ottawa handing Seneca softball its first loss · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Teagan d'iff's bat Addie Russell's arm lead to Ottawa handing
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  Seneca softball its first loss. Written by Brian Hoxey, this
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  article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  you by Everlett. Ottawa freshman Teagan Daif has already produced
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  some solid performances for the Pirate's softball program in her
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  rookie prep season. She added another to the list in
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  Friday's win at Seneca. Deif smacked solo homers in both
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  the first and third innings, then threw out a fighting
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  Irish runner trying to advance to third in the sixth.
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  Those efforts, combined with the complete game pitching of Addie Russell,
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  helped Ottawa top Seneca to one, handing the host Fighting
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  Irish their first loss of the season. Ottawa now fifteen
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  to six one for the sixth straight game. Seneca dropped
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  a twenty three to one. Teagan, I mean, what can
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  you say? She was very very good today, Ottawa coach
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  Adam Lewis SAIDs She homered twice off of one the
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  best pitchers not only in our area but the state,
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  and then throws out a runner at third in a
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  key situation. She had quite the day and picked a
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  great day to have it. Darriff started Ottawa on its
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  winning way by taking a one to two pitch from
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  Seneca starting and losing pitcher Tessa Croul over the wall
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  in straightaway left field. Then in the third de Reeve
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  fouled the first pitch she saw off her leg, then
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  sent the next pitch she saw from Kroll over the
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  wall and left center to make it to zero. For
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  me at the plate, It's all about having confidence in
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  myself no matter the situation, dar Reef said. I came
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  into today with a really good mindset and approach. I
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  just wanted to make sure if I got a good
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  pitch to hit that I was on time and watched
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  the ball all the way to the bat. Kroll is
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  too good a pitcher to go up there guessing. You
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  just have to have trust in your ability to adjust.
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  I feel like both pitches were the same. Both were
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  fast balls right down the middle and a little bit up.
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  They both felt really good off the bat. I'm just
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  glad I could help the team and hopefully we can
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  continue to play like we have been. Seneca threatened in
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  both the third and six innings, but came up empty.
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  In the third, Grayson, Provence and em Amino reached on
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  consecutive singles with one out, but on a force at
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  a second on a grounder, Provence tried to score from
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  second and was thrown out. In the sixth, Provence led
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  off with a base hit and promptly stole second. The
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  next batter hit a fly ball to deep center, where
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  Dereff made a catch and fired a perfect strike to
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  third to get Provence attempting to tag. The Irish broke
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  through in the bottom of the seventh, as Hayden Pfeiffer
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  let off the inning with a home run to right
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  to cut the lead in half, but Russell struck out
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  the next three batters to end the game. Addie pitched
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  an incredible game against a lineup that top to bottom
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  can really hit. Lewis said she showed the competitiveness as
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  she has all game, but especially in the seventh when
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  after she gives up a homer to start the inning,
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  she comes back and strikes out the next three batters.
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  Russell allowed eight hits with no walks and six strikeouts.
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  Kroll gave up two hits, no walks and fans six
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  and three innings. Feiffer came on to pitch in the
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  fourth and retired twelve of thirteen batters she faced, including
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  nine via strikeout. Riley Harstead doubled for Ottawa, while Provence
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  and Lexibus each had two hits for Seneca. Those were
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  two really good swings Derriff put on those pitches. Seneca
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  coach Brian Holman said nothing against anyone, but we hadn't
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  faced the kind of pitching we saw today in a
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  few weeks. Russell is an outstanding pitcher, and I felt
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  like we put together some pretty good at bats and
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  swings against her, but just couldn't strength enough of those
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  things back to back. Hayden gave us the nice lift
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  leading off the seventh, but then I thought we sped
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  ourselves up a little. We're a little too amped with
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  the excitement. Russell's did a good job of feeding off
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  our aggressiveness there after the homer to close it out.