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Rudy Villagomez, Putnam County top Bureau Valley in regional semifinals · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Rudy Villagomes, Putnam County top Bureau Valley and Regional Semifinals.
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  Written by Kevin Hieronymus. This article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Special times
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  call for special measures. The Putnam County baseball team broke
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  out its player of the Game chains for the first
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  time this season for Wednesday's semi final of the Class
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  one A Anawan Weathersfield Regional in Anawan by a unanimous choice.
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  PC pitcher Rudy villa Gomes received the honors with four
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  solid innings in relief to hold the ship and send
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  the Panthers to Saturday's regional final with a five to
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  one win over Bureau Valley. This is the first time
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  we actually brought this out for a game, trying to
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  get something going. I guess Viligome said, I've seen Saint
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  Bede had chains like this and always thought it was cool,
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  but I never thought we'd do something like this. PC
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  coach Chris Newsom was in all favor of breaking out
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  the chains. It's postseason. Everybody's zero zero. You get an
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  opportunity to win that chain if you perform well. I
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  think it's a great idea to get that incentive if
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  there isn't already, he said. Coach Jared Sale held it up,
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  and everybody's like Rudy. He wore it. He earned it
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  by coming in throwing strikes. He's done that for us
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  all year long. He's a high strike rate pitcher, not
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  going to blow it by you, but he gets the
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  job done, creates some contact. As long as we play
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  clean behind him, we're in good shape. Newsom made the
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  move to Villagomes when PC starter Kade Zimmerline started bv's
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  aid in Litherland off on a one to one count
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  to start the fourth inning. The Storm loaded the bases
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  with one out on hits by Doc carry Martin and
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  Tye Barkman and a walk to pinch hitter Wyatt Smith,
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  but Villa Gomes fan Brandon Carrington and then retired logan
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  Philhauer on a deep fly to center. While BV coach
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  Ryan Schizler thought it was just a long, lazy flyball,
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  it kept carrying, pushing p C centerfielder Carter Hawkstadder to
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  about ten feet from the fence. It kept carrying. I
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  saw their guy get turned around, thought maybe we had
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  a shot, Schisler said, phil Hower thought he hit it out,
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  felt really good off the bat. I was hoping it
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  would go over for us. Phil Hower said, it would
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  have been awesome, would have tied the game and gave
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  us a big boost in morale. PC struck first with
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  an RBI single by Wyatt Zellers, scoring Hokestatter, who singled.
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  The Panthers stretched their lead to four zero with three
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  runs in the third, including a sacrifice fly by zimmer Line,
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  an RBI double by Maddox Pool, and an RBI single
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  by Peyton Bardo. They made it five zero in the
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  fifth when Jonathan Stunkel followed a single by Trackston Mattingly,
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  who was three for three with an RBI double BV
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  pitcher Blake Foster got the Storm on the board with
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  an RBI double in the seventh, scoring Carrington, who led
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  off with a single. We had a couple different opportunities,
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  A to jump out to a lead and b to
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  close the gap. Unfortunately, the big hits didn't fall when
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  we had guys in scoring position, Schissler said. Two PC's credit,
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  they paved their way through it and earned everything they got.
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  It's probably why they're the one seat in the sectional
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  Skisler ends the season desiring more. I think my bar
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  is higher than fifteen fifteen and a regional semifinal. Truthfully,
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  I think my guys should set the bar higher, and
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  I think we left some things on the table for
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  the team this year. I'll go back and reset and
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  figure out how we can keep pushing. I don't think
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  fifteen to fifteen is going to satisfy me, and it
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  shouldn't satisfy our guys. The Panthers twenty one to eleven.
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  Await the winner of Thursday' semifinal between number four Anawon
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  Weathersfield seventeen twelve and number five Midland twelve fourteen and
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  Saturday's regional final at eleven am in Anawon. PC will
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  send Stunkel. It's ace to the mound. This is what
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  everybody remembers the post seasons. Newsom said, you can be
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  zero fur and take home some hardware. People remember that
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  if you win twenty five games in the postseason and
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  don't win anything, you're forgotten. That's just how it goes.
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  PC beat aw ten to seven in eight innings and
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  split in a Tri County conference series, with Midland losing
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  seven to three and winning thirteen to one,