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Seneca’s Hayden Pfeifer blanks Brimfield to help Fighting Irish advance to 2A state softball finals · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Seneca's Hayden Pfeiffer blanks Brimfield to help Fighting Irish advance
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  to two Estate softball finals. Written by Brian Hawxy, this
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  article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  you by Everlett. Seneca pitcher Hayden Feifer was locked in
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  from start to finish in Monday's class to a East
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  Peoria Supersectional at East Side Center against Brimfield. The junior
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  right hander scattered four hits, walked one, and struck out
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  eleven in the Fighting Irish's three zero victory over the Indians.
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  I have so many different emotions going on in my
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  head right now, Pfeiffer said, this doesn't even seem real.
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  At the beginning of the season, we talked about how
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  this was our goal make it to state, but back
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  then it seemed so far away. Seneca thirty eight two
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  will take on IC Catholic thirty five in the state
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  semifinals at two thirty pm on Thursday at the Louisville
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  Slugger Sports Complex in Peoria. I See Catholic defeated Stillman
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  Valley one zero in eight innings in the Benedictine University
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  super Sectional. Brimfield ended the season. At twenty nine to six,
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  Pfeiffer threw seventy seven of her one hundred pitches for
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  strikes and recorded an eye popping twenty four swings and misses.
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  I was comfortable and confident throwing any one of my
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  pitches in any situation. Today, Pfeiffer said, everything was working
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  really well. I did a lot of stalking in the
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  past few days, checking out their box scores on Game Changer,
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  looking for any videos on social media about their hitters,
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  just anything and everything I could find to hopefully give
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  me an edge. Wow, twenty four swings and missus. That's
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  a lot and throw in. This was a super sectional man.
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  That's really impressive. Seneca coach Brian Holman said. Seneca played
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  what proved to be the only run it needed in
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  the second off Brimfield senior sawyer Drury catcher Lexi Buis
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  reached on a one outfield error before courtesy runner Brindley
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  Hunt stole second and moved to third on a throwing error.
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  Freshman Amaliah Weber then lined a full count RBI base
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  hit to center. Every time I step in the batter's box,
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  I just think to myself, my team is tough. I
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  am too, and age is just a number, said Weber,
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  who later doubled and singled to finish three for three.
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  My first at bat too, be honest, I can't even
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  remember anything other than there were two outs, a runner
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  was on third, and I had a good at bat
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  that ended up with a hit. The seniors on this
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  team are all amazing. They've talked about the last few
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  years just falling short and how bad they wanted this.
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  The seniors believed that this is our year, and when
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  they believe, why wouldn't I. In the Irish fourth fief
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  led off with a single and Cameron Steccin sacrificed courtesy
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  runner Taylor Schaeffer to second. After a strikeout, Senior Tessa
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  Kroll hit in zero two soft liner just over third
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  to bring home a hustling Shafer. It wasn't the hardest
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  ball I've ever It was a bloop, but it worked,
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  Kruel said, with a grin. With two strikes, I just
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  had to shorten up my swing. It worked because the
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  pitch was a little inside, and I don't think I
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  would have ever made contact if I hadn't cut down
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  my swing. Seneca added the game's final tally in the fifth,
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  as Marley Lissy reached on an error to start the frame. Hunt,
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  now a pinch runner, moved to second on a sack
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  bunt by Aurora Weber, then on a ground out to first.
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  A throw to try and catch Hunt off the bag
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  at third sailed high to allow Hunt to score. Brimfield's
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  best scoring opportunities came in bottom of the second with
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  a one out double before Feiffer fan the next two batters,
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  and in the sixth, when the Indians put runners on
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  first and second with one out before the Seneca hurler
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  recorded a strikeout and ground out to end the threat.
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  We came here down here three years ago and scouted
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  this facility out. Holman said. This is the exact same
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  turf we have at home. I told the girls when
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  we get here, it's going to feel like a home
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  game with nearly the entire higher town cheering them on.
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  Dury is an outstanding pitcher, So we talked about how
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  anytime we got a runner on, we were going to
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  move them over. We want to play aggressive, and I
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  thought we did a great job of that today. It's
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  been a lot of years chasing this goal, and I'm
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  just so happy for our players. That they've earned this opportunity,