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La Salle-Peru earns one more home game with sectional semifinal win over East Peoria · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Lasal Peru earns one more home game with sectional semifinal
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  win over East Peoria. Written by Kevin Schlumm, this article
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  is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  by Everlett. During warmups Tuesday, the lasal Perue softball team
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  booted a few balls in the infield and many of
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  its plays weren't crisp. Senior pitcher Taylor Veskani said the
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  Cavaliers were a bit nervous with a packed house at
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  the LP Sports Complex for their Class three at lasal
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  Peru's sectional semifinal. We had a discussion before the game
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  because I felt like in our warm ups we were
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  getting a little bit intimidated by all the people here,
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  just because we've never had this many people at one
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  of our games, Vescanni said. But then we kind of
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  flipped it to all these people are here to support us,
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  and it's so awesome that all these people could come
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  out to the game to support us. Having the face
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  cheering us on, I feel like it really helped the
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  Calves gave the big home crowd plenty to cheer about.
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  Veskanni threw her second shutout of the postseason. Mackenzie's Chamberlain
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  drove in two runs and LP beat East Peoria to
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  zero to give the Calves one more game on their
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  home field Friday in the Sectional championship against Dunlap. It's amazing,
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  Visconi said about winning a Sectional game on their home field.
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  It's everything we could hope for to play on our
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  home field in Sectionals, and now to be able to
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  play the Sectional championship at our home field is so exciting.
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  Dunlap twenty eight eight advance with a two to one
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  win over Ottawa in Tuesday's first semifinal. The Calves twenty
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  three to fourteen beat the Eagles eleven to one and
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  six innings on May eighth. We played them earlier in
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  the year, so we're kind of expecting how to pitch
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  to them already because I faced them before, Vescangni said.
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  Although LP won the earlier matchup with Dunlap, Chamberlain isn't
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  taking anything for granted since the Eagles did not pitch
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  Illinois recruit Sutton sent Toni. Even though we beat them
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  in the regular season, they didn't pitch their pitcher who
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  we're going to see, so it's going to be a
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  totally different game. Chamberlain says, so we can't go in
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  there thinking, oh yeah, we can beat them. We need
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  to get on our level and beat their level. On Friday,
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  Veskangni continued to pitch at a high level this postseason
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  on Tuesday, as she allowed three hits while striking out
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  twelve and walking one. I knew they were good hitters,
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  and they had a couple slappers on their team who
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  are really good, said Veskangnye, who has allowed one unearned
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  run on seven hits with thirty five strikeouts and three
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  walks in three complete games this postseason. My goal for
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  the game was to keep the leadoff hitter off base,
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  so working them inside rise ball and then mixing my
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  change up with that. While Veskangyi was dominating East Peoria,
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  pitcher Addison Dungeon was making things difficult for the Cavs
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  as well. He did not have a base runner the
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  first time through the order before the Calves got going
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  in the fourth Lydia Steinbach drew a one out walk
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  before Kelsey Frederick and Anna Reva each singled to load
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  the bases to bring up Chamberlain. The junior catcher ripped
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  a hard shot to the left side for an infield
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  single to bring in steinback. It was a little nerve
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  racking because recently I haven't been hitting. It's just been
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  a bunch of popouts, line outs, Chamberlain said. I was
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  just like, I need need to hit it hard somewhere,
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  and that's what I did. It was a big change
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  of momentum. Chamberlain gave the Calves an insurance run in
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  the sixth when she ripped a double to the right
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  center field gap to score Reva. It gives a sense
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  of relief, Chamberlain said about getting an extra run. The
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  Calves finished with six hits, two each from Chamberlain and Riva,
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  and one each from Frederick and Carmen Piano. She's the
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  real deal. LP coach Randy Webby said about Dungeon. The
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  first time through the line, we were okay, we were
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  just feeling our way through. But I told them when
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  we came up in the fourth inning, okay, you've all
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  seen her one time. Make your adjustments, and they made
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  the adjustments. We started hitting her hard. EP's anakar Rosecrans
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  led off the seventh with a double, but Vesconni retired
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  the next three batters to end it, with Chamberlain catching
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  a pop up in foul Territory for the final out.
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  It was a sense of relief to catch the final out.
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  Chamberlain said, being able to come home and be like
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  this is our place, not yours, is just great. It's
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  a phenomenal feeling.