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Serena’s Cassie Walsh outduels Somonauk/Leland’s Brielle Deacon to clinch Little Ten softball title · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Serena's Cassie Walsh out duels somanok Leland's Brielle Deacon to
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  clinch Little Ten Softball title. Written by Brian Hoxey, this
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  article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  you by Everlett. For the second time in three days,
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  Serena senior Cassie Walsh and somanok Lyland freshman Brielle Deacon
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  hooked up in a classic pitcher's duel that lasted just
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  seventy minutes. Like they did on Tuesday, the Huskers managed
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  to push across a run late in Thursday's Little Ten
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  Conference game, while Walsh was able to keep the Bobcats
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  off the scoreboard to record a thrilling one zero softball
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  victory in Serena. The triumph closed out an undefeated conference
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  championship for Serena, which improved to ten to seven overall
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  and finished eight zero in league action. Somatok Leland dropped
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  to eight eight and four to two. The lone run
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  of the contest came in the bottom of the fifth
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  as a walk and error set up Anna Shrpa's sacrifice fly.
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  Walsh finished the complete game shutout, allowing just three hits
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  with one walk and four strikeouts. She retired the final
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  eleven batters she faced, and pitched out of a runner
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  on second and third jam with two outs in the fourth.
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  I feel like facing them Tuesday gave me a good
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  idea of how I wanted to pitch to each of them,
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  Walsh said of Serena's two a win at Somanok. I
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  knew the hitters that I was going to attack and
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  the ones that I needed to be more careful with.
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  My go to most of the time is the outside corner.
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  That's where I feel I'm most effective, and that's where
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  I was pitching to most of the game. I feel
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  like my pitches other than my drop ball were working
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  well and I didn't miss very many spots. Today was
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  a lot like cold Tuesday, because both teams were just
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  keeping each other from scoring. I feel like after we
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  scored the run in the fifth, I was really focused
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  on making that run hold up. Serena had left three
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  runner in scoring position through the first four innings. In
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  the fifth, Emily Hoffman led off with a walk and
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  moved to third on a two base throwing error on
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  a grounder by Matty Young. After an infield pop out,
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  Katie Johnson loaded the bases after reaching on a bunt.
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  Sharp then followed with a line drive to Write, which
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  was deep enough to score Hoffman. Both both Cassie and
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  Brielle were just fantastic today, just like they were on Tuesday, Serena.
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  Assistant coach Ron Johnson said, these last two games, with
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  those two going back and forth, we knew scoring opportunities
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  were going to be limited, so you just had to
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  take advantage when they came around. That's what happened in
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  the fifth and the girls were able to come through.
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  Deacon went six innings, allowing just two hits, no earned runs,
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  with one walk and two strikeouts. The Bobcats received sensational
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  defensive plays from centerfielder Kennedy Barshinger, shortstop Brook Berry, third
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  baseman McKenna McMahon, and left fielder Ashley McCoy. I think
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  we all showed ourselves on Tuesday that we can be
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  a really strong team when we all stick together, believe
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  in ourselves, and fight until the end. Deacon said. The
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  last two games didn't work out in our favor, but
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  I feel like we played really well these last two games,
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  and hopefully we can continue to play well the rest
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  of the season. I just knew I had to hit
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  my spots, and really all of my pitches were working today.
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  For the most part. I'm not trying to strike every
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  hitter out because I know I have a really good
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  defense behind me. My defense was incredible today. They made
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  so many great plays. Cassie is a really good pitcher,
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  and when you face her, you have to be looking
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  for pitches on the outside corner. But she also knows
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  when hitters are looking for it, and when she does,
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  she put one on the inside corner. She just a
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  very tough pitcher to hit against. Serena hosts Hinkley Big
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  Rock on Saturday at ten am, so minok Leland plays
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  Newark at home on Monday at four thirty pm.