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Jaelynn Anthony, Oswego start fast, beat Plainfield East for third straight sectional championship · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Jalen Anthony Aswego start fast beat Plainfield East for third
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  Speaker 1: straight sectional championship. Written by Joshua Welgan, this article is
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  Speaker 1: Adeline Fuget figures she is going to stay busy at
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  Speaker 1: second base with Jalen Anthony in the circle, and that's
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  Speaker 1: aoka with the Aswego sophomore. Fugett fielded the first five outs.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony retired Friday and six of the first eight. Was
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  Speaker 1: she tired hardly? I'm high on adrenaline, Fugitt said. Oswego
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  Speaker 1: is feeling the rush again. The Panthers needed four batters
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  Speaker 1: to score two runs. Anthony and her defense did the rest.
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  Speaker 1: The Purdue recruit provided the early offense. Herself, struck out
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  Speaker 1: seven and only allowed one ball to leave the infield
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  Speaker 1: in a two zero win over Plainfield East in the
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  Speaker 1: class for a Yorkville Sectional final. Defending state champion as
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  Speaker 1: we Can Go twenty two eleven in winning its third
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  Speaker 1: straight sectional advances to face the winner of Saturday's Barrington
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  Speaker 1: Huntley game in a four pm Monday supersectional at Northern
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  Speaker 1: Illinois University. We all have the same mindset as the
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  Speaker 1: same goal. Anthony said, it's step by step to get
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  Speaker 1: back there. Anthony only allowed two hits and no outs
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  Speaker 1: left the infield. That's just the way. Fugut, who plays
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  Speaker 1: shortstop for her travel team, likes it. Jaylen definitely attacks
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  Speaker 1: and she throws really hard, so all of the stuff
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  Speaker 1: is going to come to the right side because everyone
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  Speaker 1: is always late. Fugitt said, I play a lot of
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  Speaker 1: shortstop in travel, but I love playing second here because
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  Speaker 1: that's where all the balls go. It's nice to have
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  Speaker 1: a trusty pair of gloves up the middle, and Anthony
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  Speaker 1: has it in Fugut and shortstop Kennedy Gengler. They were
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  Speaker 1: in on ten outs Friday and made just one error.
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  Speaker 1: Gengler made a diving catch of Marie Markham's wicked liner
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  Speaker 1: leading off the fourth and snagged a tricky knuckle off
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  Speaker 1: the bat of Giselle Asensio to start the seventh. Knowing
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  Speaker 1: you have a field behind you that is going to
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  Speaker 1: lay their body on the line and do whatever it
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  Speaker 1: takes to catch the ball and get the out makes
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  Speaker 1: all the difference, said as we Goo coach Annie Skaremusi,
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  Speaker 1: herself a former pitcher. It allows you to throw freely,
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  Speaker 1: not feel so tense. It looked like it would be
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  Speaker 1: anything but tense for Oswego. At the outset, Friday Fugut,
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  Speaker 1: who had two hits, hit a bloop double just over
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  Speaker 1: the shortstop, lighting off the bottom of the first Sophie
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  Speaker 1: Morland bunted for a hit and took second when nobody
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  Speaker 1: covered the bag. Betsy Jack walked to load the bases,
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  Speaker 1: and Anthony ground a single in the hole to bring
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  Speaker 1: in two. Didn't try to do too much. Anthony said,
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  Speaker 1: just keep the moment small and something big will happen.
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  Speaker 1: We came out hot, Fugitt said. Plainfield East somore Joscelyn Cushard,
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  Speaker 1: lynchpin to the program's first sectional final team, kept her cool.
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  Speaker 1: She retired the next three batters to keep the score
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  Speaker 1: at two zero, and the game settled into a pitcher's duel.
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  Speaker 1: Cushard struck out five and allowed just three hits and
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  Speaker 1: four baserunners after the first. Obviously, we made some uncharacteristic
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  Speaker 1: mistakes there that we normally don't do, but I'm proud
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  Speaker 1: with how she stayed composed. Plainfield East coach Rebecca Grime
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  Speaker 1: said she comes back that much harder She's a true competitor.
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  Speaker 1: She understands the situation and doesn't let it get too big.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing doing against Anthony, though. Leyla Iverson, who had two hits,
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  Speaker 1: singled to lead off the six and after a sacrifice bunt,
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  Speaker 1: Markham walked, but Anthony retired the next two, putting out
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals' biggest threat. The balls that we did hit,
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  Speaker 1: To their credit, their infielders made some great plays. Grime said.
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  Speaker 1: She was pushing more to the outside corners, and while
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  Speaker 1: we were getting contact, it wasn't barrel contact. Anthony, who
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  Speaker 1: threw five innings of shutout relief in Oswego's three to
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  Speaker 1: win over Plainfield East in April, didn't pitch as much
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  Speaker 1: during the rec regular season in favor of Fuget. She's
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  Speaker 1: been money at playoff time. Anthony has allowed just one
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  Speaker 1: unearned run over her last twenty six innings pitched, and
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  Speaker 1: through her second playoff shut out Friday. Definitely haven't pitched
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  Speaker 1: as much and I'm okay with that one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: It's helped, Anthony said, I tend to get into a
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  Speaker 1: rhythm and that's what happens. We were ready for anything
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  Speaker 1: that came to us. Next up, is an interesting choice
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  Speaker 1: for Anthony. She could face Huntley, who has four of
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  Speaker 1: her summer teammates, or a thirty five zero Barrington team
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  Speaker 1: that Anthony and Oswego beat in last year's Class four
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  Speaker 1: A state championship game. It will be fun either way,
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  Speaker 1: she said, sending my teammates back home to practice for
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  Speaker 1: summer or beating Barrington again,