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Callie Ferko scores winning run as Yorkville walks off Oswego in 12 innings, clinches Southwest Prairie title · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Calli Ferko scores winning run as Yorkville walks off Oswego
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  Speaker 1: in twelve innings. Clinch's Southwest Prairie title written by Joshua Welde.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. Calli Ferko had a whole week
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  Speaker 1: to think about her next at bat against Oswego, Yorkville's
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  Speaker 1: first in the bottom of the twelfth inning. She sure
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  Speaker 1: was envisioning it Tuesday. I was talking about it earlier
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  Speaker 1: today with Ellie Fox. We were like, we want to
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  Speaker 1: both hit doubles, Ferko said. We were like, how are
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  Speaker 1: we gonna get this done? How are we gonna walk
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  Speaker 1: it off? Ferko didn't overthink it with all that time
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  Speaker 1: on her hands, though. The Yorkville senior walked on four
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  Speaker 1: pitches leading off the bottom of the twelfth and then
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  Speaker 1: she came home with the winning run on Austin strikes
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  Speaker 1: grounder as Yorkville beat visiting Oswego four to three in
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  Speaker 1: twelve innings, A game that required nine calendar days and
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  Speaker 1: three days at the park ended in about twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Originally postponed because of thunder May fourth and suspended after
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  Speaker 1: eleven innings because of darkness, tied three to three. The
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  Speaker 1: next day, it was worth the wait for Yorkville. Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: twenty four eight twelve to two, moving a game up
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  Speaker 1: on Oswego seventeen ten eleven to three in the Southwest
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  Speaker 1: Prairie Conference race with one to play, swept the season
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  Speaker 1: series to clinch the league title. A big deal to Ferko.
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  Speaker 1: In Yorkville's other seniors beaten three times by Oswego each
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  Speaker 1: of the last two years, we were definitely ready to
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  Speaker 1: get the job done, Ferko said, They're so talented, and
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  Speaker 1: they've had plenty of wins against us in my time here.
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  Speaker 1: It's really good to beat them. After anticipating this game
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  Speaker 1: for so long, we've been marking it on our calendar,
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  Speaker 1: whether as on the originally scheduled date, played a part
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  Speaker 1: in how it ended. The game Tuesday was played in
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  Speaker 1: a steady drizzle. Oswego's Jalen Anthony walked Furco on four pitches,
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  Speaker 1: and a wild pitch moved Ferko to second as Anthony
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  Speaker 1: struck out Fox. Ferko took third on a second wild pitch,
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  Speaker 1: the first pitch to strike. On the second pitch, strike
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  Speaker 1: hit a ground ball to the right side of the infield.
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  Speaker 1: The throat of the plate beat Ferko, but the ball
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  Speaker 1: came out on the tag a little rough. Obviously not
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  Speaker 1: the outcome we wanted. Oswego coach Annie Scaramuzi said, we
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  Speaker 1: had plenty of opportunities in the first eleven innings. It
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  Speaker 1: should not have come down to that. Ferko was late
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  Speaker 1: breaking for home but went for broke when she saw
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  Speaker 1: where the ball was hit. We had a hit and
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  Speaker 1: run on and I'm like, I'm not going. But then
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  Speaker 1: I saw it was on the right side, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I'm going hard, Ferko said, almost. It took
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  Speaker 1: me a minute, but I was running full speed ahead. Ferko,
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  Speaker 1: who singled in Yorkville's first run way back in the
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  Speaker 1: first inning, had struck out against Anthony with a runner
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  Speaker 1: on third and two out in the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: seventh with the score tied three to three. Rejn, who
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  Speaker 1: gave Ferko the take sign until she saw a strike Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: liked her senior's approach against the hard throwing Purdue commit.
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  Speaker 1: The situation is, you don't want to get behind in
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  Speaker 1: the count against Anthony, but she also might be off.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough to throw in the rain. There is a
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  Speaker 1: lot of annoyances with that. Regnier said it was good
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  Speaker 1: of her to go up there and have a good approach. Likewise,
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  Speaker 1: Strike a freshman did not start the game, but pinch
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  Speaker 1: hit in the sixth and importantly made contact. That is
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  Speaker 1: the name of the game, especially with the current circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: Regnier said, I don't think it's slippery, but it is
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  Speaker 1: a little slick and the ball is wet. If you
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  Speaker 1: put the ball in play, you give yourself an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for them to make a mistake and just put pressure
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  Speaker 1: on them. Yorkville sophomore Bella Roseauer, who came on in
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  Speaker 1: relief of Fox in the fifth and struck out nine
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  Speaker 1: and seven and one third shutout innings, ran into trouble
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  Speaker 1: right away as the game resumed. Anthony reached on an
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  Speaker 1: infield single with one out and Allevia East single to
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  Speaker 1: put runners on first and second, but Roseauer came back
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  Speaker 1: to strike out the next batter and coaxed an inning
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  Speaker 1: ending pop up that she caught. Honestly, the runners on
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  Speaker 1: base aren't a big deal, Roseauer said. They might be
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  Speaker 1: in scoring position, but it doesn't mean they're going to score.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just focusing on what I'm going to do to
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  Speaker 1: get the batter out. Scaremoosey and the Panthers are focused
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  Speaker 1: on a potential third meeting with Yorkville in two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville and As we Go are the top two seeds
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  Speaker 1: in the sectional that the Foxes host. We fully expect
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  Speaker 1: to see this team again, Scaremosey said. We will be
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  Speaker 1: prepared and better from this loss.