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Adam Swanson continues tear, Ottawa baseball stays alive in I-8 race with 11-1 win over Rochelle · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Adam Swanson continues Tier Ottawa Baseball stays alive in I
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  eight race with eleven to one win over Rochelle. Written
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  by J. T. Penalty, this article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Ottawa's Adam
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  Swanson swears he didn't have vengeance in mind when he
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  stepped into the batter's box to lead off the bottom
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  of the first inning, despite the fact that his Rochelle
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  counterpart Hubbs starting pitcher Brody Bruns went yard against Swanson
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  for a solo home run in the top of the first.
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  The Pirates senior enjoyed the result. Nevertheless, Swanson went yard himself,
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  blasting a leadoff solo homer to center to tie the
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  game one to one, then retook the mound and shut
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  out the Hubs for the final four innings as the
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  Pirates kept their Interstate eight Conference baseball title hopes alive
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  with an eleven one, five inning victory Wednesday at Kingfield.
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  I always try game to game, pitch to pitch. Don't
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  let myself get up here when something goes good, don't
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  let myself get down here when something goes wrong, Swanson said, said,
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  gesturing with his hands. Onds. Really, I was just thinking
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  same approach and hitting leadoff. I was thinking, get it started,
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  hit a ball hard somewhere and it worked out. I
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  knew I put a good swing on it. I saw
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  it getting small pretty fast. I was excited. It was
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  indeed an exciting and unusual beginning. One Ottawa coach Levi
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  Erickson wasn't at all surprised to find Swanson right in
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  the middle of to give up an early home run
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  to their kid and then settle in and answer right
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  back with a home run off him in the bottom
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  of the first. You don't see that very often, Ericson said.
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  Adam lives for big moments. He thrives in situations like that.
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  He's just been electric. Brun's solo homer down the right
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  field line in the Visitors first got the Hubs nine
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  to fourteen overall three eleven Interstate eight off to a
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  good start, and other than Swanson's reply, Bruns was strong
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  early the second time through the order, though the red
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  hot Pirates, winners of four straight and nine of their
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  last eleven, started to solve the South Paw Ottawa November one,
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  fourteen overall eight five Interstate eight scored twice in the third,
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  three more times in the fourth, and five times in
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  the fifth to enact the ten run mercy rule on
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  a walk off RBI single from designated hitter Jake Torres.
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  Rochelle fielding errors opened the door for most of the
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  Pirates runs on the day, making a tough job tougher
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  for Bruns three and one third IP, one ER, seven
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  H zero BB, three K and a trio of relievers
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  who didn't fare any better. Swanson, on the other hand,
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  had little difficulty after bruns opening frame home run. Swanson
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  finished going all five innings, striking out seven while allowing
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  one earned run on three hits and no walks. Yeah,
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  he did a good job, Rochelle coach Jared Reynolds said,
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  we just weren't hitting many balls hard and it's hard
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  to win when you only get couple hits. Atawa is
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  a really good hitting team and you can't give them
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  extra outs. That's what we did. Too many unearned runs
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  and we always say in this conference there's not much
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  margin for error. Bruns finished with two of Rochelle's three hits,
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  and the Hubs loan RBI as for Ottawa, which can
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  earn a share of the Interstate eight Conference championship with
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  Caniland if the Pirates can finish a sweep of the
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  Hubs in Rochelle on Thursday and then beat Canland back
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  in Ottawa on Monday in the resumption of a suspended game.
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  There were multiple offensive standouts. Swanson led the way with
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  a double, a homer, and three RBIs, Colt Bryson three
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  runs scored, one RBI Torres two RBIs, and Brendan Fuchs
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  also delivered two hits apiece, with Reizon Contrera singling homer
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  run and Rory Moore doubling and scoring twice. We can't
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  worry about what happens with the conference race or the
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  end of the season, Ericson said. We just have to
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  trust that we do the little things every play with
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  the purpose and don't take any plays or pitches off,
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  and we're going to put ourselves in a situation for it.
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  It's panned out so far. Hopefully we can take care
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  of business tomorrow, then Monday will be a fun day.