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Putnam County baseball responds to early deficit, wins Class 1A regional title · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Putnam County Baseball responds to early deficit wins class won
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  A regional title. Written by Brad Martin, this article is
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  being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  The Anawon Weathersfield baseball team came out swinging a hot bat,
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  but it didn't take long for Putnam County to come
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  alive and never look back as the Panthers cruise to
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  an eight two victory Saturday to win the Class one
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  A Anawon Weathersfield Regional Championship. In Anawon, the Titans were
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  swinging the bats with confidence as Nick Thurston doubled to
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  center field and then Jayton Huber crushed a shot to
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  right center that scored Thurston to go ahead one zero.
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  Moments later, Huber score on a wild pitch from Jonathan
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  Stunkel to put the Titans ahead two zero after the
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  top of the first inning. It was nice to come
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  out and mark in the first inning. Aw coach Jason
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  Berkiwitz said, we took some good swings off a really
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  good pitcher, but we couldn't keep it going after that,
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  The Panthers didn't waste any time getting their bats going either,
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  as leadoff hitter Traxton Mattingly crushed a leadoff home run
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  in the bottom half of the inning to cut the
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  lead in half. After one inning of action, Coach Chris
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  Newsom told us, hey, We're going to come up and
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  hit the crap out of the ball, and I was
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  lucky enough to hit one right away and get some
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  of that momentum back, Mattingly said. After a leadoff double
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  from Devon Horry and an infield single from Maddox Heitzler,
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  the Titans were turned away by the Panthers with no
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  runs crossing the plate. Peyton Bartow led off the bottom
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  half of the inning with a bloop single and then
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  moved to second on a second on a sacrifice bunt
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  from Carter Hawkstatter that brought up Wyatt Zellers, who hit
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  an RBI double to right field that scored bart to
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  tie the game at two. To respond, the way we
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  did was big, said, I mean, Jonathan Stunkel wasn't pitching
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  bad in that first Anawon Weathersfield was just making some
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  great contact. But Traxon helped get some momentum back right
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  away to get us going. After the Titans were held
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  scoreless in the top of the third, the Panthers took
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  control of the game. In the bottom half of the inning.
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  Stunkle helped himself out with a lead off triple to
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  right after a long at bat. Caide Zimmerline then hit
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  an RBI ground out to score Stunkel for a three
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  to two lead. Maddox Pool singled to left and then
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  stole second before Bartow walked. That brought up Hawkstadter, who
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  singled to left to score Pool and extend the lead
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  to four to two. Zellers hit a two run single
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  pass first base to score Barto and Hochstater to put
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  Putnam County ahead six two. After Traxon hit that home run,
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  the dugout just got going. Zeller said, I just saw
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  the ball well today and was able to connect for
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  us two batters. After an Eli King single, Maddingly once
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  again spoke the ball for a two single to score
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  Zellers and King to make it eight to two. Neither
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  team got much going in the fourth inning, and then
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  in the fifth Thurston double to center as the ball
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  was misplayed before Meyer Heitzler walked, but the Titans were
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  unable to capitalize with any runs. Putnam County had a
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  leadoff double from Zeller's and Jake Ferrar was hit by
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  a pitch, but were unable to add any insurance runs
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  going into the sixth. From there, relief pitchers Zimmerlyan and
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  the Panthers defense shut the door on the Titan season
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  and took the eight to two regional championship victory. Zellers
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  led PC with three hits and three rbiis, while Mattingly
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  had two hits in three RBIs. Stunkel took the victory
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  on the mound, giving up two runs and striking out seven.
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  Putnam County twenty two to eleven returns home to Granville
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  to play Newark twelve eighteen in a sectional semifinal at
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  four thirty pm Wednesday,