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Freshman Alyssa Muhlbach sparks Yorkville’s seventh-inning rally, win at Oswego · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Freshman Alyssa Mulboch sparks Yorkville's seventh inning rally win it
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  Speaker 1: as we Go. Written by Joshua Weld, this article is
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  Speaker 1: It did not take Ellie Fox long to figure out
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  Speaker 1: the impact Alyssa Muhlbach would have this season on Yorkville's
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  Speaker 1: softball team, or where the freshman would hit. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as I saw her lifting, I was like, that's our
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  Speaker 1: leadoff hitter. I just knew, Fox said. I saw her
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  Speaker 1: sprint and her swing and her athleticism. I knew she
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  Speaker 1: could hit. Muhlbach, a speedy, little five foot one lefty,
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  Speaker 1: has indeed been a hit. She batted second for one game,
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  Speaker 1: moved up to leadoff, and hasn't looked back. Mulbox's leadoff
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  Speaker 1: single started a seventh inning rally Friday, and Fox singled
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  Speaker 1: her in the visiting fox Is tacked on three more
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  Speaker 1: runs to beat Aswego eight four in the Southwest Prairie
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  Speaker 1: Conference game. Muhlbach, who walked twice in three previous plate appearances,
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  Speaker 1: came to the plate to start the seventh after Oswego
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  Speaker 1: seven seven three one tied at four to four on
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  Speaker 1: Sophie Moreland's single With two outs in the sixth, On
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  Speaker 1: the sixth pitch from Perdue commit Jalen Anthony, Muhlbach lined
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  Speaker 1: a single just over the leaping shortstop. I was just
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  Speaker 1: looking to get a base hit and to get on bass,
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  Speaker 1: and Kayla Kursting or Ellie would drive me in. Muhlbach said.
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  Speaker 1: My approach was to target everything down. I knew she
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  Speaker 1: was gonna throw rises to me. I knew she would
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  Speaker 1: throw out, so I was sitting on the plate and
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  Speaker 1: waiting to hit out. With one out, Cursting singled, reaching
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  Speaker 1: bass for the fourth time, and Calli Ferko's bunt single
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  Speaker 1: loaded the bases for Fox. Fox had struck out against
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  Speaker 1: Anthony in the fifth, but on the tenth pitch she
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  Speaker 1: saw she singled to left to score Muhlbach, with Cursting
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  Speaker 1: awarded home on an obstruction. Call I just knew I
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  Speaker 1: had to get the ball in play somehow I could
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  Speaker 1: not strike out. I had to get that run in
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  Speaker 1: play somehow, Fox said. I knew she was throwing me
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  Speaker 1: curves every single pitch. I was prepared. Maddy Mendez followed
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  Speaker 1: with a two run single, the Foxes twelve five to
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  Speaker 1: four to oh had a number of long at bats
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  Speaker 1: against Anthony, who came on in relief in the third inning.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we need to do. We don't need to
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  Speaker 1: win the game on one hit. Yorkville coach Jory Redneer said,
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  Speaker 1: we know Jalen is a good pitcher. Our approach was
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  Speaker 1: good quality at bats. As a pitcher, it gets frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville's win was its tenth and eleven games, and its
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  Speaker 1: freshman leadoff hitter is a big reason why. Muhlbach had
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  Speaker 1: three inside the park homers, a triple and eight RBIs
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  Speaker 1: on Yorkville's unbeaten spring break trip. She has the second
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  Speaker 1: best batting average among Foxes' starters and was tied with
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  Speaker 1: Ferko for the team lead in RBIs. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: she understands the game very well and is an extremely
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  Speaker 1: mature softball player. Regnier said, I also believe she is
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  Speaker 1: a dynamic hitter. She can do everything you want. She
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  Speaker 1: can hit hard, hit it in the gap, bunt for
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  Speaker 1: a hit, slap it. She can do anything. It's just
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  Speaker 1: so hard to plan for that. As a defense. With
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  Speaker 1: Muhlbach moving into the leadoff spot, it's allowed Regenier to slide.
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  Speaker 1: Iowa commit cursing to third with speedy live Lath in second.
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  Speaker 1: If we can get runners on in front of Kayla,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mad about it. Reginier said, you can't not
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  Speaker 1: pitch to everybody speed at the bottom. We have a
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  Speaker 1: dynamic offense. We can do a lot, which we did today.
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  Speaker 1: The Foxes scored two runs in the first inning on
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  Speaker 1: a throwing error on a dropped third strike. Oswego came
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  Speaker 1: back with three in the bottom half, two on Brin
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  Speaker 1: Broughton's double. Yorkville swung back ahead four to three in
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  Speaker 1: the third with Ferko's bases loaded walk and a Mendez
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  Speaker 1: single to score, cursting a rally started by a Mulbach walk.
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  Speaker 1: The significance of the win wasn't lost on Fox and
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville's seniors, who lost to Oswego three times in each
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  Speaker 1: of the last two years. They knocked us out of
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs two years in a row. Fox said me, Kayla, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: we just wanted to beat them so bad. Defending state
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  Speaker 1: champion as we Go, like Yorkville, has picked it up
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  Speaker 1: after a tough start to the season. The Panthers had
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  Speaker 1: won seven of nine coming into Friday. Adeline Fugut, one
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  Speaker 1: of three starters back from last year's team, had three
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  Speaker 1: hits Friday and reached base four times. We've definitely been
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  Speaker 1: building momentum offensively as we go. Coach Annie Scaramuzi said,
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  Speaker 1: we're figuring it out and playing good ball. Our message
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season was our record doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 1: it's how we're playing at the end of the season,
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  Speaker 1: having as many new faces as we do, we knew
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  Speaker 1: it would take a minute to get there to figure
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  Speaker 1: it out, but we're there.