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Freshman Anna Herrmann’s hat trick, go-ahead assist sends Oswego East past Waubonsie Valley to regional final · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Freshman Anna Herman's hat trick go ahead assists sends Oswego
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  Speaker 1: East past Wabanzi Valley to regional final. Written by Joshua Welge,
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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. It did not take Oswego East
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  Speaker 1: coach Juan Leo long to realize he had a unique
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  Speaker 1: talent in Anna Herman. Leil met the incoming freshman at
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  Speaker 1: summer camp last year. Herman made a quick impression. I
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  Speaker 1: talked to my assistant and I said, this girl is
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  Speaker 1: going to be something special, Leil said, sure enough. Preseason
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  Speaker 1: we saw her in training. She goes one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: all the time. As she got comfortable with the varsity pace,
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  Speaker 1: she started to establish herself. Herrman has not stopped since
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  Speaker 1: and never seems to stop on the field. She recorded
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  Speaker 1: a hat trick with three goals Wednesday, giving her twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight goals on the season. Herman assisted a fourth goal
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  Speaker 1: in the nine seeded Wolves for to one win over
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  Speaker 1: six seeded Wabanzie Valley in the Class three as we
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  Speaker 1: Go East Regional semifinal. It was not Herman's first hat
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  Speaker 1: trick of the season, but her smashing playoff debut and
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  Speaker 1: first in a postseason sent As we Go East twelve
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  Speaker 1: nine into Friday's regional final against Bennet. I'm so grateful.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't do it without my teammates, Herman said, I
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  Speaker 1: just really wanted to win, and I wanted my teammates
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  Speaker 1: to keep playing, especially the seniors. Herman's three goals, two
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  Speaker 1: in the game's final five minutes, put her two shy
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  Speaker 1: of oniagul Brands in single season program record of thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Her biggest moment Wednesday, though didn't involve Herman finishing. With
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  Speaker 1: the game tied one to one, in the final minute
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  Speaker 1: of the first half, she took a throw in near
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  Speaker 1: the left sideline. Herman took a couple of dribbles and
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  Speaker 1: sent across into the box as the Wabanzie Valley keeper
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  Speaker 1: dove to her knees for the ball. As we Go
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  Speaker 1: East junior Olivia Hamilton found an opening. I realized that
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  Speaker 1: she was trying to dive for the ball. I took
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  Speaker 1: a step out and I swung it around with my
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  Speaker 1: left and it went in. Hamilton said after we scored,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it gives us a certain drive to
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  Speaker 1: get more goals. It gets us that motivation. The score
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  Speaker 1: with twenty four seconds left gave Oswego East a two
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  Speaker 1: to one lead, and that energy carried over into the
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  Speaker 1: second half. Wobonzi's McKinley lad, who scored her team's lone goal,
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  Speaker 1: acknowledged that it was a huge momentum swing that her
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  Speaker 1: team never recovered from the Warriors July first twelve had
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  Speaker 1: previously banged two successive point blank shots off the post
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  Speaker 1: from a free kick with eight minutes left in the half.
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  Speaker 1: It was a tough one, Lad said, coming out down
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  Speaker 1: two to one, it put us down. Heads were down.
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  Speaker 1: We struggled to keep our heads up and get going.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of cost us. Harman got Oswiego East going early.
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  Speaker 1: She got behind the Wabonzi defense, sidestepped the keeper and
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  Speaker 1: drilled a shot inside the far left post. I think
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  Speaker 1: it definitely boosted our energy and our confidence, Herman said.
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  Speaker 1: It gave us motivation to keep going and to keep pressing.
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  Speaker 1: Herman kept pressing throughout the second that the Wolves controlled possession.
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  Speaker 1: She had two good attempts sale over the goal, and
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  Speaker 1: with fourteen minutes left, beat three defenders and shot it
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  Speaker 1: off the right post, not to be denied. Herrman scored
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  Speaker 1: twice in sixty three seconds time in the game's last
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  Speaker 1: five minutes. The girl has incredible accuracy on her shots.
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  Speaker 1: She has incredible power. She just has a drive to her.
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  Speaker 1: Lel said she is motivated. She plays hard every single
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  Speaker 1: second she gets on the pitch. The girls look to her.
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  Speaker 1: She's a freshman, but I think they see her as
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  Speaker 1: a role model. We knew Wabonzi would be tough once
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  Speaker 1: she got going. We rode that wave.