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Ottawa, Adam Swanson dominant in IHSA 3A regional semifinal blanking of archrival La Salle-Peru · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Ottawa Adams Swanson dominant in ISA three A Regional semifinal
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  blanking of Arkivil lasal Peru Written by J. T. Penalty.
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by everlet. It said the playoffs are like
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  the start of a new season. The twenty twenty six
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  ISSA Baseball Regionals, however, started a lot like the twenty
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  twenty six regular season, ended with Adam Swanson and the
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  Ottawa Pirates dominating. Swanson, Ottawa's right handed ace and slugging
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  leadoff hitter, pitched a complete game, one hit shutout and
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  launched a late three run home run Wednesday night to
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  lead the Pirates to a four game season sweep of
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  Archival lasal Peru eight zero in the semifinals of the
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  Class three A Metamora Regional. Everyone knows what's at stake
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  in this rivalry, especially in the playoffs, said Swanson, who
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  allowed just one hit and four walks while striking out
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  eleven in the shutout his third win of the season
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  against LP. What we said all week was it doesn't
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  matter if we beat them three times. It's hard to
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  beat a team four times. We had to come out
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  and flush the first three games against them. Act like
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  it's game one and know what's at stake. I think
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  we had a good mentality going into it. The Pirates
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  December first nineteen, winners of nine of their last ten
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  and fourteen of their last seventeen. After a five to
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  nine to one start, advanced to Saturday morning's regional championship
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  game against the host and top seeded Redbirds twenty five
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  to eight, who bested Kankake eleven to one in Wednesday's
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  early semi final. We've just got to compete, said Ottawa
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  coach Levi Erickson, who commended his team for its approach
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  and scrappiness wednesday. We play clean baseball, We pound the zone,
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  we have a good approach at the plate, and we'll
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  put ourselves in a situation to compete for the championship.
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  That's all you can ask for. While the story of
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  Whinday's game was undoubtedly the dominance of Swanson and the
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  Pirates offence, relentlessly taking advantage of the opportunities presented by
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  six LP errors over the opening four innings, it was
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  the Cavaliers ten twenty three who tried being the aggressor
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  first ILP leadoff man Jet Hill opened the top of
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  the first inning, drawing his first of three walks from Swanson.
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  Hill was running with the pitch when Cavaliers designated hitter
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  Braylan Bond sent a two out single into left field.
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  A slight bobble by Ottawa left fielder Jack Carroll led
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  to lasal Peru coach Matt Glupsinki, waving the speedy Hill around,
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  but a perfect relay from Carroll to third baseman Colt
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  Bryson to catcher Lucas Ferreball cut down Hill to end
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  the inning. Lp did not threaten again nor get another
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  hit for the remainder of the ballgame. Hats off to
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  Swanson and Ottawa, they played a great game. Glupshizinki said,
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  we tried to get aggressive early, got thrown out at
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  the plate. Thought it was bang bang play, But you know,
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  our boys played hard and battled all the way. I
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  thought we grew a lot this year as a team
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  with a lot of young guys in the lineup. It's
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  totally different to try to win a varsity baseball game
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  compared to a freshman or a sophomore game. I think
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  we leanered a lot as a group, and our seniors
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  worked hard all four years for us. It kind of
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  stinks they went out this way, but we think the
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  future is bright. The Pirates offense, meanwhile, got to work
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  in the second with two unearned runs against LP Southpaust
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  starter Gavin Kallis two IP two R zero ER three
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  H one BB one. K Ottawa added three more, also
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  unearned in the fourth against reliever Gino Argubright four IP
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  six R three or five H one BB three K,
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  the lone RBI coming on a riise On Contrera sacrifice
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  fly scoring Bryson. Ottawa closed the scoring with a bang
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  Alikso Fernandez, Jobst and Rory Moore both singled to start
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  the home sixth ahead of Swanson's moonshot home run well
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  over the fence and just inside mulberry Field's left field
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  foul po. Swanson finished with three hits and three RBIs,
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  while More from the number nine spot in the order
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  added a two hit, two run scored performance. I'm scrappy,
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  Moore said. I try to set up stuff for Swanny
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  because I know he'll do his job and if I
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  get on base, something good will happen. This end of
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  season run has been awesome. The energy we have in
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  the dugout is awesome. We're just having fun playing baseball
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  and I love it. First Pitch Saturday is scheduled for
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  ten am