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- 0:05Speaker 1: Megan Halverson's walk off double sends as Weigo East past
- 0:08Speaker 1: Oswigo in Crosstown thriller written by Joshua Welde. This article
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- 0:17Speaker 1: by Everlet. Meghan Halverson drifted around second base, seemingly in
- 0:22Speaker 1: a daze as her Aswego East teammates poured out the dugout.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Why the delayed reaction. I was just making sure my
- 0:29Speaker 1: friend Katie Midday got home, Halverson said. In case she didn't,
- 0:33Speaker 1: I needed to stay on the base. Halverson could join
- 0:36Speaker 1: the celebration thanks to her heroics. The Aswego East senior
- 0:41Speaker 1: doubled in Miday with two outs in the bottom of
- 0:44Speaker 1: the seventh, giving the Wolves a six' five win Over
- 0:47Speaker 1: oswego In Thursday Southwest Prairie conference, game snapping a five
- 0:52Speaker 1: Game crosstown losing. Streak the most recent attend zero loss
- 0:56Speaker 1: in five. Innings earlier this, Season Oswego east Beat oswego
- 0:59Speaker 1: for the time since twenty twenty. Three The panthers fifteen
- 1:03Speaker 1: to nine to nine to, two scored twice in the
- 1:06Speaker 1: top of the seventh to tie it before The wolves
- 1:09Speaker 1: twenty eight to sixty six walked it off with their
- 1:11Speaker 1: seventh straight win the last five or six. Games that's
- 1:15Speaker 1: kind of our mo as we Go east Coach Sarah davey,
- 1:18Speaker 1: said we get down a little, bit we come, back
- 1:20Speaker 1: and we don't give up until the. End Crystal Lake,
- 1:23Speaker 1: central we were down six going into the seventh and
- 1:25Speaker 1: scored eight. Runs we've had a lot of fight and
- 1:29Speaker 1: obviously this game we're a little more excited than the.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Others miday walked on four pitches leading off the bottom
- 1:35Speaker 1: of the seventh Against Oswego's Jalen anthony on in relief
- 1:39Speaker 1: Of Adeline. Fugut anthony retired the next two batters on
- 1:43Speaker 1: line outs and quickly ran the count to zero two On.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Halverson on the sixth, Pitch halverson lifted a high fly
- 1:50Speaker 1: ball between the center fielder and left fielder that just
- 1:52Speaker 1: kept carrying and dropped as made scooted home from. FIRST
- 1:57Speaker 1: i was just trying to put the ball in, play
- 2:00Speaker 1: especially a shot to the outfield is where you need
- 2:02Speaker 1: to put it with a runner on, Base halverson. Said
- 2:05Speaker 1: the lefty Hitting halverson her previous at, bat hit a
- 2:08Speaker 1: groundball single through the middle to drive in two with
- 2:11Speaker 1: two out in the fifth giving The wolves a four
- 2:14Speaker 1: to three, lead a different type of, hit but similar
- 2:18Speaker 1: approach worked in the. Seventh she has just been improving and,
- 2:22Speaker 1: Improving davies. Said her mo is hard on the ground
- 2:25Speaker 1: up the, middle especially situations with runners on great, poise great,
- 2:29Speaker 1: grace doesn't let a lot FaZe her senior. Presence davies's
- 2:33Speaker 1: sophomore Pitcher Faith haggarty likewise showed poise under. Pressure in
- 2:38Speaker 1: the top half of the. Seventh oswego tied at five
- 2:41Speaker 1: to five On fugits two runs single and loaded the
- 2:44Speaker 1: bases with two out On Betsy jack's line shot Off haggerty's,
- 2:47Speaker 1: foot But haggarty came back to retire the Dangerous anthony
- 2:51Speaker 1: on a pop up to keep the game, tied setting
- 2:53Speaker 1: the stage For halverson's. Heroics faith And Oswego east senior
- 2:59Speaker 1: Catcher Kylie mahs work really well, together And faith is just,
- 3:02Speaker 1: calm cool and collected. Always davy said she Knows. Jay
- 3:06Speaker 1: she goes to her mom for a pitching, lesson so
- 3:08Speaker 1: they know each other pretty. Well but to come in
- 3:11Speaker 1: After jalen hit a double offer before just a good.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Game haggarty allowed eight hits and only struck out one
- 3:18Speaker 1: but on a, crisp breezy, day she was able to
- 3:20Speaker 1: coax twelve outs by pop up or fly. Out the
- 3:23Speaker 1: Last anthony's most of the time off my rise. Ball
- 3:26Speaker 1: there is a lot of pop UPS i get and
- 3:29Speaker 1: then weak ground balls off the. Curve haggarty, SAID i
- 3:32Speaker 1: was really kind of just scared at first that last at,
- 3:35Speaker 1: bat and THEN i just trusted my catcher to throw
- 3:37Speaker 1: what she knows to. Throw aswego twice rallied from multiple run.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Deficits The, panthers down two, zero scored three runs in
- 3:46Speaker 1: the fourth to go ahead three to two On Kennedy
- 3:48Speaker 1: gangler's two run. Double fuget had three, hits And anthony
- 3:52Speaker 1: And jack. Two aswego had played eleven Innings tuesday At,
- 3:56Speaker 1: yorkville a game suspended tied three to three in the.
- 3:58Speaker 1: Twelfth oswego's loss dropped The panthers a game back Of
- 4:03Speaker 1: yorkville in the conference. RACE i just don't think we
- 4:06Speaker 1: were playing our best ball. Today we showed up. Flat
- 4:10Speaker 1: oswego Coach Annie scaremussi, said not an, excuse but we
- 4:13Speaker 1: played eleven innings. YESTERDAY i think both our pitchers were
- 4:16Speaker 1: feeling it. TODAY i felt our energy was flat and
- 4:19Speaker 1: we deserved to lose that. GAME i am proud of
- 4:22Speaker 1: the fight they had to respond and to bounce. Back
- 4:26Speaker 1: Olivia owls reached base three times and scored three, runs
- 4:30Speaker 1: And Katie silva was three for four with AN rbi
- 4:33Speaker 1: and run scored For Oswego, east whose seven game win
- 4:36Speaker 1: streak matched at seven zero start to the. Season the
- 4:39Speaker 1: season's arc For halverson has mirrored her. TEAM i had
- 4:43Speaker 1: the confidence in myself and then it dropped for a.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Second halverson, said sometimes you have to not even, think
- 4:49Speaker 1: just hit the. Ball