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Bryce Baxa’s walk-off sacrifice fly sends Yorkville to wild regional win at Oswego East · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Bryce Baxa's walk off sacrifice fly sends Yorkville to wild
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  Speaker 1: regional win at Oswego East. 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. Bryce Baxa lifted one finger in the
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  Speaker 1: air before his foot even hit the first base bag,
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  Speaker 1: The ball was caught and the winning run scored. I
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  Speaker 1: knew it was home, Baksa said. The Yorkville sophomore had
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  Speaker 1: ample reason to doubt this season after a strong freshman
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  Speaker 1: year on varsity. Baksa this spring endured the adversity that
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  Speaker 1: often besets young athletes after early success, but Basa stuck
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  Speaker 1: with it and delivered. Thursday, with the season on the line,
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  Speaker 1: Basa delivered a deep fly ball with the bases loaded
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  Speaker 1: for a sacrifice fly to drive in the winning run
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  Speaker 1: in the bottom of the seventh as Yorkville won a
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  Speaker 1: wild nine to eight Class four A Aswego East Regional
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  Speaker 1: semifinal over the host war Yorkville twenty three to eleven,
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  Speaker 1: which advances to face downers Grove North in Saturday's regional final.
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  Speaker 1: Had Ace Gabe Sanders knocked out in the third inning
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  Speaker 1: and overcame a four run deficit to twice take a lead.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Foxes won in walk off fashion after Oswego
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  Speaker 1: East sixteen eighteen had tied it on Noah Diese two
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  Speaker 1: run single with two out in the top of the seventh.
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  Speaker 1: Just a gritty game, two teams not wanting to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville coach Tom Servant said, can't speak enough about our guys.
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  Speaker 1: Even though we got behind, they never stopped believing, never
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  Speaker 1: lost that confidence. We have our flaws as a team,
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  Speaker 1: especially offensively, but we found a way today to bail
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  Speaker 1: out our defense, which typically is one of our strong suits. Baxa,
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  Speaker 1: for his part, has had an up and down season,
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  Speaker 1: batting point one nine zero on the year and struggling
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  Speaker 1: in the middle portion of it, but he started to
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  Speaker 1: click in recent weeks and spoke to the mental climb.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest reason I struggled in the first place was
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  Speaker 1: just the pressure of prev of having a good season
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  Speaker 1: last year. I had to learn how to fail, Basa said.
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  Speaker 1: The season has already not been good for me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do my part and forget about everything else. At
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, it was just going up
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  Speaker 1: and being natural bax singled in a go ahead run
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  Speaker 1: in Yorkville's five run third that gave the Foxes their
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  Speaker 1: first lead six'. Five he came to bat in the
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  Speaker 1: seventh after Kel arnsen doubled to lead off and As
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  Speaker 1: WeGo east intentionally walked two. Batters after a sacrifice, Bunt
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  Speaker 1: baxa took a, ball swung through the next, pitch then
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  Speaker 1: connected the opposite way to bring home courtesy Runner Robbie.
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  Speaker 1: MUELLER i just had to calm. Down first. TAKE i
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  Speaker 1: was calm got, anxious AND i calmed down. Again baxa,
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  Speaker 1: said try to keep it up the middle. AWAY i
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  Speaker 1: knew he was going to throw me off. Speed they
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  Speaker 1: were trying to get that weak ground. BALL i was
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  Speaker 1: ready for. It in that, Situation it's all about not
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  Speaker 1: rolling over the. Ball servant, said worst thing you can
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  Speaker 1: do is be too, aggressive roll over something soft and
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  Speaker 1: they have a play at the. Plate first, swing he
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  Speaker 1: was a little out, front made the, adjustment stayed back
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  Speaker 1: and drove the ball. Away servants likewise isn't surprised at
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  Speaker 1: the adjustments and the Work baxa has put in to
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  Speaker 1: overcome his sophomore. Slump he is a great, kid a
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  Speaker 1: really hard working. Kid he might be the hardest working
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  Speaker 1: Kid i've had. Here servants, said he'll probably go home
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  Speaker 1: tonight and hit for half an hour for him to
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  Speaker 1: be able to come through the way he did despite his,
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  Speaker 1: struggles still being a team guy even when he was
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  Speaker 1: not in the. Lineup it's great to see him have
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  Speaker 1: that kind of. Success the game was the latest wild
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  Speaker 1: one between teams with a history of, them especially on this.
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  Speaker 1: Diamond U se Recruit Dominic batista's two run homer helped
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  Speaker 1: Stake Oswego east to a five to one lead Off
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  Speaker 1: yorkville And, sanders but The foxes sent ten batters to
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  Speaker 1: the plate in a five run, third aided by Two wolves.
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  Speaker 1: Errors Oswego east tied at six to six on a
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  Speaker 1: dropped third Strike era with two hours in the, fifth
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  Speaker 1: But yorkville swung back ahead With Gavin gigan's two run
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  Speaker 1: homer in the bottom of the. Sixth batista was intentionally
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  Speaker 1: walked with two out and runners on second and third
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  Speaker 1: in the, seventh And deaste lined the first pitch he
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  Speaker 1: saw for a single to tie it. Again that rally
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  Speaker 1: was furthered along when A yorkville outfielder fell down On
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  Speaker 1: Nico vilacchi's. Double we had the. Momentum they had the.
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  Speaker 1: Momentum oswigili's Coach Brian schaefer, said we tied it twice
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  Speaker 1: and gave ourselves opportunities to. WIN i think we've had
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  Speaker 1: in the past couple of years six or seven walkoffs
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  Speaker 1: between the two. Teams our teams are so, similar they
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  Speaker 1: compete with each, other they know each other. Well it's
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  Speaker 1: a good. Competition seems like it's always like. This