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Betsy Jack, Oswego rally past Naperville Central in sectional semifinal marked by overturned home run · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Betsy Jack Oswego rally past Naperville Central in sectional semifinal
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  Speaker 1: marked by overturned home run. Written by Joshua Welga, this
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  Speaker 1: article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by Everlett. Betsy Jack looked overmatched in her first
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  Speaker 1: two at bats Wednesday and for the first two pitches
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  Speaker 1: of her third plate appearance, but not when it mattered.
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  Speaker 1: The Oswego senior lined a two strike offering from Naperville
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  Speaker 1: Central Ace Avery Miller off the shortstops glove to drive
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  Speaker 1: in Adeline Fugut with the go ahead run. Oswego scored
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  Speaker 1: two runs in the fifth inning and rallied past Naperville
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  Speaker 1: Central two to one in a Class four A Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: Sectional semifinal marked by a controversial overturned Redhawk's home run.
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  Speaker 1: I was just trying to stay on top of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: not try to do too much, Jack said. My first
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  Speaker 1: two at bats, I was trying to swing through the fences.
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  Speaker 1: When I do that, I do bad. Indeed, Jack struck
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  Speaker 1: out on three pitches in the first inning off off Miller.
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  Speaker 1: She swung through a Miller rise for a strikeout. In
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  Speaker 1: the third, Jack came to the plate in the fifth,
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  Speaker 1: one out after Fuget tripled in Ellalina Mahoney with the
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  Speaker 1: tying run. Jack fouled off the first pitch, swung through
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  Speaker 1: the second, and took a ball before three straight fouls.
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  Speaker 1: She got underneath the ball twice. Miller was throwing a
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  Speaker 1: really good rise ball as we Go coach Annie Scaremuzi said,
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  Speaker 1: I told her anything you can do to get on
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  Speaker 1: top of the ball. I don't care what it looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Betsy is a situational hitter. She did an amazing job
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  Speaker 1: all year long of selflessly going up to the plate.
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  Speaker 1: Betsy was Betsy there. Jack stepped up in the batter's
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  Speaker 1: box to try to catch Miller's rise ball a pitch.
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  Speaker 1: Jack admitted she struggles with the one I hit was inside.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a screw. Jack said, I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to move up to catch it before it broke.
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  Speaker 1: Just trying to hit a line drive and also believing
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  Speaker 1: in myself. I was losing confide. Had to refresh my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Naperville Central twenty five to ten in its first sectional
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  Speaker 1: since twenty fifteen. Nicked Oswego ace Jalen Anthony for a
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  Speaker 1: run in the first. The red Hawks looked like they
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  Speaker 1: made it to zero with two outs in the third
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  Speaker 1: when Fiona Brown homered to center field on an Oswego appeal,
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  Speaker 1: though it was ruled that Brown missed second base, the
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  Speaker 1: run taken off the board. We saw that she missed
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  Speaker 1: second base and we appealed it. Scaramuzi said, that's a
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  Speaker 1: call that goes in our favor, and I'm happy that
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  Speaker 1: it did. It's a different ballgame if that's a home run.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely saw her jump over the base. It looked
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  Speaker 1: like anyway, said fuget Oswego second baseman. She was celebrating early,
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  Speaker 1: which I get it. It's an exciting moment. The coaches
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  Speaker 1: saw it right away. The little things in softball changed things.
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  Speaker 1: Veteran Napleville Central coach Andy Nusbaum and the other dugout
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  Speaker 1: was incredulous at the call and claimed that there was
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  Speaker 1: video evidence that showed Brown indeed touched the bag. I've
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  Speaker 1: been doing this a long time, and I've never seen
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  Speaker 1: it called in all the thousands of Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: games i've seen, I've never seen it called. I thought
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  Speaker 1: she touched the bag. Neusbam said, you better be one
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  Speaker 1: thousand percent sure. Ten thousand percent sure ball, strike out safe.
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  Speaker 1: That's one thing they took a run away from us.
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  Speaker 1: The Red Hawks threatened again in the fifth, with runners
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  Speaker 1: at second and third with one out Callie Lenz scalded
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  Speaker 1: a liner that Aswego shortstop Kennedy Gengler snagged and doubled
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  Speaker 1: the runner off third. Bad break on the double play,
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  Speaker 1: Nusbaum said, besides the home run, that was the hardest
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  Speaker 1: hit ball all day. Oswego number nine hitter Mahoney started
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  Speaker 1: the winning rally with an infield single, her second of
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  Speaker 1: the day, and took second on a pass ball. Fugitt
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  Speaker 1: followed with an opposite field drive to left that almost
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  Speaker 1: went out, scoring Mahoney. Fugitt, Oswego's speedy leadoff hitter, had
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  Speaker 1: early reached on a bunt hit I dragged down the
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  Speaker 1: line to start off, but she was throwing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of rise balls and the defense was playing really far in,
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  Speaker 1: Fugot said, I definitely knew I had to get the
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  Speaker 1: runner in from second, so I had to barrel the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Oswego's comeback win was its second of the postseason. The Panthers,
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  Speaker 1: twenty one to eleven, also rallied twice in the sixth
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  Speaker 1: inning of their sectional games last year en route to
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  Speaker 1: a state title. Oswego advances to face conference rival Plainfield East,
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  Speaker 1: who the Panthers beat three to two during the season
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  Speaker 1: in Friday's final. That's Panther softball. We're always like that,
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  Speaker 1: Fugut said. We're able to come back from anything as
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  Speaker 1: long as we keep our energy high. Anthony struck out
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  Speaker 1: nine and while walking to and hitting two other batters,
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  Speaker 1: only allowed one hit, the overturned home run. She did
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  Speaker 1: a good job of staying locked in every single pitch
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  Speaker 1: into a tight zone. Scaamuzy said he had a tight
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  Speaker 1: zone from the first pitch. Miller struck out four and
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  Speaker 1: scattered seven hits. The RedHawks were undefeated DuPage Valley Conference
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  Speaker 1: champs after graduating two Division one hitters. It was a
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  Speaker 1: great group. Nasbaum said. They far exceeded expectations to lose
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  Speaker 1: a game this way, but this group is really disappointing.