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  Speaker 1: Dwight snap's losing streak with victory over Newark. Written by
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  Brian Hoxy, This article is being read by an automated
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  voice brought to you by Everlett. The Dwight softball team
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  entered Tuesday's game against host Newark having dropped thirteen straight games,
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  but the Trojans used a combination of a seven run
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  fourth inning to take the lead for good and an
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  excellent pitching performance from senior Matty Ely to snap the
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  streak with a twelve to sixth victory over the Norseman.
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  We've had a few close ones during the losing streak
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  where the outcome is different with a play here or there,
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  said Dwight coach Megan Borger, her squad now seven to
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  seventeen on the season. But for the most part, it's
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  been one bad inning that's hurt us. We've seen to
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  make all our mistakes, all of our errors in one inning.
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  It had become almost a team wide mental block. It
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  was like, which inning is it going to happen this time?
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  Today we were able to overcome those thoughts. Maddie was
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  really good, and we did a great job all throughout
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  the lineup of putting the ball in play. Eale scattered
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  five hits in the complete game triumph with no earned runs,
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  three walks, and thirteen strikeouts. I was being way too
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  hesitant with my change up in the first couple of innings.
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  I just wasn't trusting myself, Ealy said. Then I had
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  a couple batters back to back where I got behind
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  in the count, and I knew they were looking for
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  a fastball. I just told myself, you're just going to
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  have to trust it. I was able to get a
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  couple of outs with it, and it really became the
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  pitch I felt I could throw in any count. I
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  felt like my fastball was pretty good, but being able
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  to also throw my change up was a big key
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  for me today. It's been a tough stretch for everyone.
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  We haven't played very well in a lot of the
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  games we've lost, but today we all just stuck together
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  and stayed positive. Newark eleven fourteen rabbed the lead in
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  the second on a slicing two run double down the
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  left field line by lefty Zoe Carlson. The Trojans got
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  one back in the third on an RBI base hit
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  by Elizabeth Hanson Off Norseman's starting and losing pitcher Kayla
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  Pottinger five IP, twelve H three r five BB's seven K.
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  Then in the fourth, the visitors took advantage of a
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  pair of walks, a hit batsman and a trio of
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  Newark errors. In between. McKenna Woodcock and Taylor Frobish smacked
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  doubles and Sarah Parker recorded an RBI. Dwight added three
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  in the fifth, two on a two run single by Hanson,
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  who also drove in a run in the sixth. Parker
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  and Hanson both finished with three hits each, while Caroline Wilson, Woodcock,
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  and Frobish all had two hits. Newark scored twice in
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  the fifth, one on an RBI hit by Zoe Carlson
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  and two in the seventh on an RBI double by
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  Riley Carlson in an RBI single by Bailey Shutter. Zoe
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  Carlson finished with three of Newark's five hits. I felt
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  like our youth really showed in the fourth inn, Newark
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  coach John Wood said, we are also really fighting a
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  lot of injuries, which has many of the girls playing
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  in positions that may be a little out of their
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  comfort zone. We gave Dwight about six outs in the fourth,
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  and they were able to take advantage of every one
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  of them. Despite that inning and being down a bunch
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  of runs, this team kept competing. We were able to
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  score a few runs in the last couple of innings,
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  showing that fight, but we just dug ourselves too big
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  a hole to get all the way out of Dwight
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  at Saint Bete on Friday in a Tri County Conference game.
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  Newark is back in action on Saturday, hosting Sandwich