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- 0:05Speaker 1: Tessa Crull TCC Player of the Year, plus all of
- 0:07our area's twenty twenty six softball All Conference honorees. Written
- 0:12by J. T. Penalty, This article is being read by
- 0:16an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Softball Standouts
- 0:21from across the Times Area received All Conference accolades following
- 0:25the conclusion of the twenty twenty sixth season. Tri County
- 0:29Seneca senior Tessa Cruell won both the Tri County Conference's
- 0:33Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year awards
- 0:35and was a unanimous first team All TCC choice alongside
- 0:38junior teammates emm Amino and Hayden Pfeiffer. Other unanimous first
- 0:43team selections included Marquette Academy juniors Kelsey Kutra and Hunter Hopkins,
- 0:48as well as Saint Bede senior Ava Blestri. Earning second
- 0:52team All TCC honors from the Times area were Marquette
- 0:55sophomore Kinley Rick, Seneca senior Cameron Stecken, Seneca junior Grayson Ants,
- 1:00and Dwight senior Maddi Ely. Honorable mention was given to
- 1:04Dwight senior Taylor Heath and Woodland Slash Flannagan Cornell, junior
- 1:08Kaylee Hennert Interstate eight. The Ottawa Pirates had five players
- 1:13awarded Interstate eight All Conference first team accolades following another
- 1:17regional championship season, with one additional player receiving honorable mention
- 1:23First Team All I eight honoreessts for Ottawa were freshman
- 1:26Teagan Dereef, junior Piper Lewis, senior Riley Harstedt, and junior
- 1:30Bobby Snook. The honorable mentionee was junior Addie Russell. Illinois
- 1:35Central eight, a trio of Streeter standouts, all juniors as
- 1:38the team had no seniors this past spring, were named
- 1:41All Conference by the ICE for twenty twenty six. Morgan Costell,
- 1:45Caitlyn Tealty, and Ava Glisten were Streeters all Illinois Central
- 1:49eight selections. Little ten. Each of the four Times area
- 1:52teams in the LTC had three players selected to the
- 1:55twenty twenty six All Conference team. For Champfon serenauor Cassie
- 2:00Walsh unanimous, and juniors Brindley Glade unanimous and Anna Sharp
- 2:05for runner up somanok Lyland. All league picks included freshman
- 2:09Brielle Deacon unanimous and McKenna McMahon, along with junior Brook Berry.
- 2:15For Earlville, all LTC representatives were senior Bailey Miller, junior
- 2:19Addie Shearer unanimous and sophomore Audrey Shearer unanimous. And for Newark,
- 2:25junior Adelaide Johnson, sophomore Riley Carlson, and freshman Zoe Carlson
- 2:29unanimous were selected. Kishwaukee River Sandwich had a pair of
- 2:33players selected to the All KRC team, senior Caden Corneills
- 2:37and sophomore Abigail Johnson. Plano had one honoree, senior Annabel
- 2:41Solace Heart of Illinois fieldcresss Terry Lynn Timmerman was a
- 2:45unanimous first team selection to the twenty twenty six Heart
- 2:49of Illinois All Conference Team