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Led by Hayden Pfeifer’s monster game, Seneca claims IHSA 2A Seneca Regional title over Bishop Mac · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Led by Hayden Pfeiffer's monster games, Seneca claims is too
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  a Seneca Regional title over Bishop mac Written by Andrew Ferrell,
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  this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. The Seneca Fighting Irish softball team
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  defeated the Bishop McNamara Fight In Irish nine to two
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  in the ISA Class two A Seneca Regional championship game
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  Friday to win its third straight regional title and sixth
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  in the last ten years. Hayden Pheiffer had a dominant
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  game in both the tops and bottoms of innings, with
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  fourteen strikeouts out of her twenty seven would be hitters
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  faced while at the plate going two for two, including
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  a home run, a triple, and two RBIs. I think
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  everyone was just hyped up, Pfeifer said. Everybody was looking
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  for another win, especially with our seniors. This group has
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  played together for so long and everybody was looking to
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  keep this season going for as long as possible. Seneca
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  improves to thirty five to two and heads to the
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  two A Pontiac Sectional, where the Fighting Irish will open
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  Tuesday at four point thirty against the winner of Saturday
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  Saint Bete Priiri Central Regional Championship game in Fairbury. Bishop
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  Max sees at season end with a mark of twenty
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  two eight. Regarding her portmance against Bishop McNamara, Feiffer and
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  her fighting Irish teammates believed in their coaches. They have
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  been pushing us in practices the past two days to
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  do our best, and against Reed Custer the same there
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  for the girls. I think everyone was working their butts
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  off at practices and we wanted this win. Bishop Max.
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  Mattie Wyland hit a single to end Fiefir's streak of
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  five consecutive strikeouts. To begin the top of the third inning,
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  Bishop McNamara got on the board when junior first baseman
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  Rea de Paulo nearly hit a home run over the
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  center field fence to allow Wyland to score and give
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  Bishop McNamara a one zero lead. However, the lead didn't
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  last long, as Seneca also began hitting the ball. In
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  the third inning, after Dipolo reached over the fence to
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  catch a foul ball for Bishop McNamara, Provance reached on
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  a three base error. Emmamino hit a single to allow
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  Provance to score and tie the game one to one.
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  Fifer hit a two run home run to give Seneca
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  a three to one lead, and Lexi Buis hit a
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  two run home run of her own to extend Seneca's
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  lead to five to one. In the fifth inning, Buie's
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  was walk to load the bases for Seneca with nobody out.
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  Senior Tessakroull hit a line drive to extend Seneca's lead
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  to seven to one. Aurora Weber and Kaylee Klunker each
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  added RBIs to extend Seneca's lead to nine to one.
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  DePaolo hit a ground rule double that bounced over the
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  center field fence to begin the sixth inning. A Sophia
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  Pigush sacrifice fly allowed Deep Polo to tag from third
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  base zero make the score nine to two. Pfeiffer finished
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  off the regional championship with her fourteenth strikeout. Seneca coach
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  Brian home And believed Seneca's pitching has been the biggest
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  reason for its success this season. I think we are
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  comfortable with who we are, Holman said. We don't get
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  too excited, we don't get too down. We've got good pitching,
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  we've got good defense, we don't walk people, we make plays.
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  So far, doing simple things has won a lot of games.
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  Bishop McNamara coach Jenna Arseneau believed her team fought hard
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  throughout the game despite the season ending loss. We just
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  prepare all season. We put in the work we have
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  to put in, she said. The girls are fighters, they
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  never give up. Seneca had a really good inning. They're
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  a good team. We just couldn't fight back all the way.
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  We had a couple errors, and that is always a
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  trickle effect. We have one error and it all just
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  kind of goes downhill from there. Arseneau will miss designated
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  player Reagan Kaner and Gabby Burnett next season as they
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  are graduating seniors, but she is confident about next year's team.
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  They absolutely lead our team. They have the energy and
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  they are the greatest people in the world. She said.
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  They will definitely be missed, but our team is very
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  young and I think we're going to come back stronger.