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Yorkville’s Gabe Sanders takes no-hitter into the sixth, shuts out Romeoville · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville's Gabe Sanders takes no hitter into the sixth shuts
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  Speaker 1: out Romoville. Written by Joshua Weld, this article is being
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  Speaker 1: read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  Speaker 1: Gabe Sanders preparation for his starts involves unplugging from the
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  Speaker 1: pressure of the game. He really unplugged Monday, as Sanders
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  Speaker 1: and Yorkville's players warmed up for their game with visiting Romoville,
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  Speaker 1: lightning sent them into the school for a thirty nine
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  Speaker 1: minute delay. I didn't even bring my phone in there
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  Speaker 1: with me. I was just trying to lock in before
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  Speaker 1: the game, Sanders said, I just don't even think about
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  Speaker 1: the game. I try to think about other things, interact
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  Speaker 1: with friends, try to distract myself from the pressure of
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  Speaker 1: the game. Once the weight was over, Sanders was locked in.
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  Speaker 1: The Yorkville senior left hander took a no hitter into
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  Speaker 1: the sixth inning and struck out nine over six innings.
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  Speaker 1: Frankie Pavlick wrapped up the one hit shutout the Foxes
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  Speaker 1: three zero win over Romoville in the Southwest Prairie Conference crossover.
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  Speaker 1: Sanders three to zero, allowed just two base runners and
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  Speaker 1: required just seventy seven pitches to navigate his six innings.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty two he threw for strikes. I think the off
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  Speaker 1: speed today was definitely one of my better pitches. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the fastball, pairing that with the tail away with the curve.
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  Speaker 1: Sanders said, if I can get it over for a
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  Speaker 1: strike the off speed, that helps me a lot. Sanders
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  Speaker 1: needed just nine pitches to get through the first inning
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  Speaker 1: and had the strikeout pitch going early. He got all
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  Speaker 1: nine of his strikeouts over the first four innings and
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  Speaker 1: struck out the side in the second around a two
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  Speaker 1: out walk. It was real apparent, real quick that he
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  Speaker 1: had the change up working today. He goes fastball change
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  Speaker 1: up that's really hard for batters. Yorkville coach Tom Servant
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  Speaker 1: said Gabe was willing to throw his change up at
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  Speaker 1: any spot full count zero, row zero. If you're able
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  Speaker 1: to throw change ups and off speed in fastball counts,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of messes with the hitters in terms of
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  Speaker 1: what might come down the road Dot end quot. Even
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  Speaker 1: when Romaville hitters made contact, they rarely squared him up.
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  Speaker 1: The lone exception was Jeremy Thompson's rocket that Yorkville third
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  Speaker 1: baseman Robbie Mueller snared in the fourth. Jack mulhern broke
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  Speaker 1: up Sanders no hitter with a single up the middle
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  Speaker 1: with one out in the sixth, but Romoville's last five
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  Speaker 1: hitters went down off Sanders and Pavlik, who struck out two.
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  Speaker 1: He Sanders threw really really well. He kept us off balance.
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  Speaker 1: Romaville coach Michael Scrock said, we were missing fastballs, fouling
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fastballs off early, which allowed him to
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  Speaker 1: use his off speed pitches, and they were very good today.
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  Speaker 1: Servant is getting used to seeing good pitching early on
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  Speaker 1: this season. On Saturday, junior Jackson Knickerbocker threw a complete
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  Speaker 1: game shutout at Morris. We knew we had some good
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  Speaker 1: arms coming in, but it's high school baseball. You never
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  Speaker 1: know how they'll react, Servant said, we knew we had
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  Speaker 1: some good seniors. It was a matter of how our
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  Speaker 1: younger arms would come around. Gabe has been really good.
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  Speaker 1: Ryder Fisher is rounding into shape. We got Pavlich. Knickerbocker
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  Speaker 1: as a junior is looking really good, and the sophomore
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  Speaker 1: he brought up, Gavin Shimizu, has been sharp. We're in
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  Speaker 1: a really good shape with the pitching. Yorkville seven four
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  Speaker 1: had three runners thrown out on the bases, two at
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  Speaker 1: home plate in the first, but broke through in the fourth.
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  Speaker 1: Camden Muell singled and came around to score on a
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  Speaker 1: two out pass ball. Owen Middleton's two run homer in
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  Speaker 1: the sixth made it three to zero. Romaville's Tyler Rizatto
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  Speaker 1: kept his team in it despite traffic in all but
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  Speaker 1: one inning, striking out four and scattering seven hits and
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  Speaker 1: four walks. He pitched really well, did a really good
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  Speaker 1: job with their base runners. Scrok said, he kept us
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  Speaker 1: in the game.