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Morris earns comeback Interstate 8 Conference win over Ottawa · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Morris earns comeback Interstate eight Conference win over Ottawa. Written
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  by Brian Haxey, This article is being read by an
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  automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Morris softball coach
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  Jen Bamonte received a pesky notification before Friday's Interstate eight
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  Conference game at Ottawa. I woke up this morning to
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  Max Preps notifying me that we had only won one
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  of our last ten games against Ottawa, Bamonte said, with
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  a tongue in cheek smile. I was like, thanks for
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  the reminder. Ignoring the streak, The Warriors scored three runs
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  in the top of the seventh inning to earn a
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  come from behind six to four victory over the Pirates. Morris,
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  now winner of seven straight games, improved to twenty six
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  to six, while Ottawa fell to nineteen nine. Both squads
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  finished tied for second in I eight play with six
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  four marks. Our conference is ridiculously good, Bamonte said. Just
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  last week, Caitlin coach Mike Kueffler, Ottawa coach Adam Lewis,
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  Sycamore coach Jill Carpenter, Los aal Peru coach Randy Webber
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  and I were texting back and forth about the fact
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  we had teams ranked in Class three A by the
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  Illinois Coaches Association, number two, number six, number seven, No eight,
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  and number eleven. That's amazing, something to be proud of
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  and why every conference game is a battle like it
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  was here today. If playing in the conference doesn't get
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  you prepped for the postseason, I don't know what does.
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  Morris grabbed the lead in the second inning. Alyssa Jepson
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  and Miley Hughes reached on consecutive one out infield hits
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  off Ottawa pitcher Addie Russell. Ella. Urbusek then followed by
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  blasting a three run homer over the left field fence.
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  With Addie, you never really know how she's going to
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  pitch you, Erbusek said. The one thing you can't do
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  is start guessing. She'll get you for sure if you
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  do that. I got down one two, but with runners on,
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  I just really wanted to do something positive. I got
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  a pitch low and inside, which I feel is my
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  sweet spot, and I was able to get the bat
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  to the ball. It was an amazing feeling and VERI
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  s exciting. Ottawa responded in the third by scoring four
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  times to take the lead. Teagan de Reef reached on
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  an infield single against Morris pitcher Mley Hughes and came
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  around to score when lefty Piper Lewis hammered a one
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  to two pitch for an opposite field homer to left.
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  Bobby Snook then doubled and scored on a single by
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  Riley Harstad. Harstead touched home plate after a double by
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  Aubrey Sullivan. Teams will just not pitch her inside, so
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  she's just staying on the ball and hitting the ball
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  hard the other way. Adam Lewis said she's done a
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  great job all season of thinking left center gap and
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  not trying to do something that can't be done with
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  a pitch away. That's exactly the approach she had on
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  the home run. In the top of the seventh, Ava
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  Peterson and herbasek reached on in infield base hits and
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  both scored on Holly Olsen's triple to center to give
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  the Visitors the lead. Aubrey McConnell then scored Olsen with
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  a sacrifice fly to left. Harstead and Sullivan led off
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  the bottom of the inning with hits and moved up
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  a base on a ground out, but from there Hughes
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  seven IP, nine h four ER, one BB, seven K
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  struck out the final two batters. Miley is Miley Bamonte
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  said she is just such a great kid. She gave
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  up the four in that one inning, but then really
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  locked in the final four innings. She kept it a
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  one run game and gave us a chance to do
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  what we did in the seventh. Russell also went the distance,
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  allowing nine hits, six earned runs, with one walk and
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  five strikeouts. We left seven runners on base, six in
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  scoring position in the final three innings. Adam Lewis said,
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  we just weren't able to get that next hit in
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  those late situations. Today, with just a one run lead,
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  it still keeps a lot of options like bunting and
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  stealing on the table for your opponent. Addie pitched pretty well.
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  The stats say she gave up nine hits, but all
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  but the homer and triple were so oft spinning contact hits.
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  A few of those we just weren't as aggressive going
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  after them as we should have been. Both sides are
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  back in action at ten am on Saturday, as Morris
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  hosts Coal City while Ottawa hosts normal U High for
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  the first game of a doubleheader