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Seneca falls 3-1 to Carterville in the Class 2A state softball championship game · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Seneca falls three to one to Carterville in the Class
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  two A state softball championship game. Written by Brian Hoxy,
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  this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. The Seneca softball team battled Carterville
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  pitch for pitch and out for out during satus as
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  a Class to A championship on OSF Healthcare Field inside
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  the Louisville Slugger Sports Complex in Peoria. Carterville thirty nine
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  to one, which finished runner up in twenty twenty five,
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  was able to score a run in the third and
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  two more in the fifth. Seneca thirty nine to three,
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  which only had two base runners through five innings against
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  Lyon's senior pitcher and University of Illinois commit Cadence Phillips,
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  was able to put four runners in scoring position in
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  the final two frames and got one run back in
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  the seventh, but eventually fell three to one to finish
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  runner up to cap an amaze and record breaking season.
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  This team battled to the very end. Seneca coach Brian
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  Holman said, against Beecher in the sectional final, we were
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  down and came back. Against Icy Catholic on Thursday, we
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  were down and battled back, and today we found ways
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  in the final two innings to bring the tying run
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  up to the plate a couple times. We were a
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  hit away a couple times today, but we just weren't
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  able to get it. Carterville took the lead for good
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  in the top of the third. Emmelin Ford coaxed a
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  leadoff walk from Seneca starter Hayden Pfeiffer, stole second and
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  came around to score on a single to left by
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  Colby Bennett. In the fifth against Irish reliver Tessea Croll,
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  Bennett led off with a bass hit, stole second, and
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  scored on a single off the bat of Taran Ford
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  to make it to zero. Ford, who had moved to
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  second on the throw, stole third and score on a
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  bunted out by Savannah Gibbs. Seneca was only able to
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  produce a first inning single by Grayson Provence and a
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  fifth inning single by Lexi Buis through the opening five innings. Overall,
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  I thought we did a pretty good job at the plate,
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  but just weren't able to really barrel many balls up.
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  Pulman SAIDs we were just under a lot of pitches
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  that we normally make good contact on. But that's why
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  Phillips has only gave up two earned runs and struck
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  over three hundred batters all year. Phillips is the real deal.
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  The last two innings, when we were able to get
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  some runners on and into scoring position, you saw her
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  really beare down. She mixed a couple of sixty five
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  miles per hour fastballs in there when she needed to,
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  and that's tough. In the Seneca sixth Provance slapped a
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  one out single and advanced to third on a two
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  out hit by Feiffer, but Phillips recorded a strikeout to
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  end the threat. In the seventh Cadence Ward Low leadoff
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  with a single to left on a zero two pitch.
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  A Malaia Weber then smacked a one out single to center,
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  and when the throat to third was wild, pinch runner
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  Brittley Hunt scored to make it three to one, but
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  Phillips was able to strike out the final to two
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  batters to close out the victory. See, you just have
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  to give all the credit to Phillips. Seneca senior first
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  baseman Cameron Stekan said, she really really good. She knows
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  what spot to hit and win when she needed to
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  make a big pitch today. She did, and that's why
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  she'll being pitching at the Division IE level the next
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  four years. Peifer lost four IP, two H one R one,
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  AR three BB five K and Kroll three IP, three
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  H two R one R one BB one K. Both
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  pitched well for Seneca Phillips win seven IP, six H
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  one R zero, ER zero BB nine. K finished the
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  season allowing just two earned runs with three hundred and
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  twenty four strikeouts one hundred and forty five innings pitched.
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  I think overall, both teams had great game plans against
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  each other on short notice. Carterville coach Will kp said,
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  as you saw, there was a reason why these two
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  teams were playing in this game. I feel we were
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  the top two teams and Class two all season. The
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  game lived up to all the hype. We had a
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  number of good scoring chants today. We came through on
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  some and left some out there. In these games, you
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  have to try and find a way to score runs
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  any way you can, because that team in the other
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  dugout is going to do the same. The big difference
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  in today's game was just simply we were able to
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  fortunately do that a couple more times than they were