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Yorkville’s Frankie Pavlik, known for bullpen heat,gets key hit to power Foxes past Oswego · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville's Frankie Pavlick, known for bullpen heat, gets key hit
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  Speaker 1: to power Foxes past Oswego. Written by Joshua Welche, 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 by Now. Yorkville's senior Frankie Pavlick is
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  Speaker 1: used to being told it's time to get hot in
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen. Opposing hitters, that usually means they're about to
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  Speaker 1: be put into a deep chill. Pavlik, a hard throwing
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  Speaker 1: right hander, has not allowed a run yet this season.
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  Speaker 1: In relief as the Foxes closer, he played five innings
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  Speaker 1: at first base Monday, had a two run single at
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  Speaker 1: the plate, and was warming up in relief when a
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  Speaker 1: lightning delay hit in the top of the sixth of
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  Speaker 1: a game eventually called Yorkville's five to four win over
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  Speaker 1: Oswego in the first of a three game Southwest Prairie
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  Speaker 1: Conference series. I was getting hot in the bullpen, Pavlik said.
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  Speaker 1: It happens quite a lot. Go out there and coach
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  Speaker 1: will say go get hot. Pavlick was a starting pitcher
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  Speaker 1: on JV but was moved to closer last year. He'd
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  Speaker 1: never done it before, but embraced the move and clearly
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  Speaker 1: took to it this year. In ten whyle innings across
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  Speaker 1: nine appearances, he has not been scored on, with twenty
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  Speaker 1: strikeouts and just five hits and four walks allowed. It's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun, a lot of pressure, but I
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  Speaker 1: love the pressure, Pavlik said. It's the most fun part
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  Speaker 1: of the game because you know that whole part of
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  Speaker 1: the game is in your control, knowing the game is
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  Speaker 1: in my hands, win or lose. I have all that
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  Speaker 1: power and all that pressure, and I love it. He
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  Speaker 1: does seem to have the stuff to dominate in pressure spots.
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  Speaker 1: Pavlik worked in the offseason with BSF Pitching Performance to
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  Speaker 1: push his velocity higher. The Blackhawk Community College commit has
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  Speaker 1: been clocked at eighty nine maybe ninety and sits at
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven eighty eight with a solid curveball to boot.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a really live arm, a good two pitch
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  Speaker 1: mix that especially at the end of the game, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard for hitters to be on both. Yorkville coach Tom
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  Speaker 1: Servin said early on last year didn't have innings where
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  Speaker 1: he was able to get in. He got loose a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but finally toward the middle end of the season, he
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  Speaker 1: was able to get in more frequently and showed he
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  Speaker 1: was capable of doing very well in that role. He's
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  Speaker 1: carried that mentality over to this year and been a
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  Speaker 1: really reliable arm for US Yorkville's pitching staff as a
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  Speaker 1: whole has been more reliable than not. Pavlik at the
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  Speaker 1: back end and Gabe Sanders leading the front. Sanders five
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  Speaker 1: zero provided more of the same Monday, throwing three shutout
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  Speaker 1: innings before getting nicked for two runs each in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth and fifth. He struck out ten seven of those
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  Speaker 1: in the first three innings, Sanders allowed nine hits and
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  Speaker 1: zero walks. Credit to Oswego, they took some good, healthy
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  Speaker 1: swings off some tough pitches. Saw him better second time around,
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  Speaker 1: which is credit to them. Servant said, Gabe is not
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  Speaker 1: an easy kid to hit. He's been very good this
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  Speaker 1: year locating and forcing weak contact. They had weak contact,
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  Speaker 1: but hard contact. Two Yorkville twelve seven two two jumped
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  Speaker 1: ahead two to oh in the first on a double
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  Speaker 1: by Camden Muel cal Arnson RBI single and Gavin Gegan's
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  Speaker 1: two out RBI single. Pavlik, batting in the number nine spot,
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  Speaker 1: delivered what turned out to be a key hit. In
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  Speaker 1: the fourth, with two on and two out, he reached
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  Speaker 1: out and hit a flare on an ro two pitch
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  Speaker 1: to drive in both runners for a four to zero lead.
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  Speaker 1: I was up there, just put a good swing on it.
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  Speaker 1: Can't strike out in a big situation like that, Pavlick said.
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  Speaker 1: Needed those runs. Barrel to the ball, trust my training,
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  Speaker 1: got my hands on the ball and put it in
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  Speaker 1: a good spot. Jalen Valise followed with an RBI single.
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  Speaker 1: The Foxes had just seven hits and were retired in
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  Speaker 1: order in three innings, but maximized their chances. That is
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  Speaker 1: something we've got better at, Servant said early on in
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  Speaker 1: the season, getting guys on base was not the issue.
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  Speaker 1: It was finding ways to get them in. Overall, we
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  Speaker 1: did a good job taking advantage of opportunities aswego. Eleven
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  Speaker 1: ten to two, stymied for three innings by Sanders, got
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  Speaker 1: to him the last two. Kevin Camacho's two out double
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  Speaker 1: in the fifth scored Hunter Emilio and cam Logmani, and
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  Speaker 1: the sixth Amelio singled in a third run and the
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  Speaker 1: fourth scored on a double steal. The Panthers had seven
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  Speaker 1: hits the last two innings after taking a called third
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  Speaker 1: strike five times the first four. We kind of changed
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  Speaker 1: our approach aswego. Coach Joe Gurante said. The thing with
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  Speaker 1: Sanders is he wasn't getting us out out of the zone.
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  Speaker 1: We had to change our mentality and go up there
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  Speaker 1: and hit. He's not going to make you swing and
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  Speaker 1: miss out of the zone. He gets you out in
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  Speaker 1: the zone. We got some hits, just a little too
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  Speaker 1: late for us. The weather caught up to us.