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Oswego’s Ahlivia East, team manager last year with a torn ACL, gets the big hits to send team past Barrington · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego's Olivia East, team manager last year with a torn
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  Speaker 1: acl gets the big hits to send team past Barrington.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Joshua Welge, this article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlet. Olivia East
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  Speaker 1: ran the gamut of respect levels as a hitter Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Barrington chose to put teammate Jalen Anthony on in the
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  Speaker 1: first inning, electing to pitch to East instead. By East's
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  Speaker 1: fourth played appearance, she was the one drawing the intentional walk.
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  Speaker 1: It happened to me before in the Yorkville game. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a little slap in the face, said East.
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  Speaker 1: Oswego's senior first baseman. Jay is a good hitter, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm a pretty good hitter too. Put some respect on
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  Speaker 1: my name. There's no disrespecting East. The way she was
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  Speaker 1: hitting Monday. She doubled in two runs in the first
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  Speaker 1: inning and doubled in two more in the fourth. East
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  Speaker 1: heroics highlighted a fourteen hit Oswego hit attack, and the
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  Speaker 1: Panthers held on to beat previously undefeated Barrington seven to
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  Speaker 1: five to take the rematch of last year's state championship
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  Speaker 1: game at the Class four a NIU Supersectional. Defending champion
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  Speaker 1: Oswego twenty three eleven, returning to State for the third
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  Speaker 1: straight year, will face Bundelin in a Class four A
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  Speaker 1: semi final at four forty five pm Friday in Peoria.
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  Speaker 1: Adeline Fugutt had four hits and scored two runs, and
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  Speaker 1: Betsy Jack, Anthony and Peyton Hatzinger each had two hits
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  Speaker 1: for Oswego, which started the season zero four but is
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  Speaker 1: back at State after graduating ten seniors. It's crazy, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen very much, Anthony said. We want to make
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  Speaker 1: the most of it. East, as much as any Oswego girl,
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  Speaker 1: is eager to make the most of it. She tore
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  Speaker 1: her acl during basketball season in February of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five and missed all of softball season. East chose to
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  Speaker 1: be the team manager and was at every game and
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  Speaker 1: at State she was finally cleared to play fall travel ball.
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  Speaker 1: I was definitely a little rusty, East said, but I
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  Speaker 1: got to hit my first at bat. East has hit
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  Speaker 1: fifth throughout the season behind Anthony, but it's been a
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  Speaker 1: quiet playoff run up until Monday. East was one for
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  Speaker 1: twelve with a walk through four games with a run
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  Speaker 1: in on Jack's ground out to score Fugitt. East came
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  Speaker 1: up with two runners on in the first against Barrington
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  Speaker 1: ace Katie Taroshewski. She drilled a double into the right
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  Speaker 1: center field gap to bring in two, and Kennedy Gengler
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  Speaker 1: followed with an RBI single to make it for zero.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't been hitting that well recently, so when I came
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  Speaker 1: into this game, we all talked about having a plan.
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  Speaker 1: We knew this pitcher was going outside with her pitches.
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  Speaker 1: East said. I went up there and told myself to
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  Speaker 1: split the plate, focus on the outside pitch, and hunt it.
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  Speaker 1: East did it again in the fourth, with Fugut and
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  Speaker 1: Jack on base with singles. Tarashowski retired Anthony on a
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  Speaker 1: liner for the second out, but East peppered the gap
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  Speaker 1: in right center again, driving in two to push Oswego's
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  Speaker 1: lead back to four, seven to three. I kind of
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  Speaker 1: feel like she is the one that we have been
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  Speaker 1: waiting to do that, Oswego coach Annie Scaramuzi said, we
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  Speaker 1: see her hit every single day and she hasn't moved
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  Speaker 1: in the lineup because we know what she's capable of.
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  Speaker 1: For her to come out and do that, swinging the
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  Speaker 1: way she did super proud of her. She's kind of
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  Speaker 1: been a missing piece. Oswego managed a combined four runs
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  Speaker 1: in its two sectional wins, but was all over Taroshewski
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  Speaker 1: thirty two to one, who became Barrington's all time winningest
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  Speaker 1: pitcher with her ninety first a two zero sectional final
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  Speaker 1: win over Huntley. Anthony's RBI single in the second made
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  Speaker 1: it five to zero. We did our research. We saw
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  Speaker 1: her in the state finals last year. Scaramuzy said, we
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  Speaker 1: did a great job with the outside pitch. The last
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  Speaker 1: three teams we have struggled with outside and up. The
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  Speaker 1: first inning to set the tone was huge. We knew
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't lay down. Indeed, Barrington thirty six to one,
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  Speaker 1: came back with three runs in the third before East's
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  Speaker 1: second to run double in the fourth. We came in
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  Speaker 1: knowing that they were trying to beat us. We took
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  Speaker 1: the title from them last year. He said, we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to score first, take the momentum. East, who was born
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  Speaker 1: in Tennessee, moved to Michigan and came to Oswego around
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  Speaker 1: her tenth birthday, has played varsity basketball since she was
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  Speaker 1: a freshman. Softball wise, she was originally a catcher, played
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  Speaker 1: third base a few games this season, but settled in
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  Speaker 1: at first about five games in filling the shoes of
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  Speaker 1: Rika Ludvigsen, she was busy. Monday, East caught a rocket
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  Speaker 1: that went off her mask and hit a chin, one
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  Speaker 1: of eleven Barrington ground ball outs. In the seventh, with
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  Speaker 1: Barrington's leadoff runner on, East stayed down to spear a
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  Speaker 1: wicked one hopper off the bat of Harlow Engle, who
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  Speaker 1: had hits her first three at bats, had some piss
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  Speaker 1: rockets right at me, he said. Jalen said, stay down,
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  Speaker 1: stay down. I told myself to just stay in front
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. Engel is a great hitter. Coach Annie
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  Speaker 1: called it inside. Just had to stay strong, stay in
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  Speaker 1: front of it. Anthony, who gave up her first earned
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  Speaker 1: run since the second inning of the regional semifinal and
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  Speaker 1: was touched for ten hits while striking out just three,
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  Speaker 1: stayed strong. With the tying runs on in the seventh,
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  Speaker 1: she got a called third strike and ground out to
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  Speaker 1: Fuguet to end it. Just had to stay calm, Anthony said,
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  Speaker 1: remember what I can do.