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Morrison battery of Ava Duncan, Allie Anderson power Fillies past Bureau Valley · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Morrison battery of Ava Duncan, Ali Anderson power Phillies past
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  Bureau Valley. Written by Kevin Hieronymous, this article is being
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  read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  The Morrison Phillies are defending regional champions and returning sectional
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  finalists and are starting to put all the pieces together
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  to make another deep postseason run. On Tuesday, the Phillies
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  rode the pitching of junior ace Ava Duncan, who scattered
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  four hits with no earned runs and nine strikeouts, and
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  the hitting of catcher Ali Anderson three for four with
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  two RBIs to a five to two win over former
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  three Rivers Conference rival Bureau Valley in Manlius. We have
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  made some adjustments the last couple games that make me
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  feel better about the postseason. First year Morrison head coach
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  Larry Ryce said, we still got a few too many errors,
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  but we're trying to clean them up the best we can.
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  Ava has been a really strong pitcher and we rely
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  on her heavily to get us through defensively. On offence,
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  I'm still waiting for us to break it out a
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  little bit. I know our best hitting is yet to come.
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  At least I hope it is. The Phillies, fifteen to six,
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  raced out of the gate with three runs on four hits.
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  In the top of the first, Belascochet got things going
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  with a one hit single to left field. She moved
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  up to third on a two base error and scored
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  on Anderson's line drive single to center. Ellie Milness followed
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  with an RBI doubled the deep left and scored on
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  Kaylee Bram's two out single to write the Scachette Anderson
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  combo worked their magic for another Morrison run in the fifth,
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  with Anderson delivering another RBI hit to make it four zero.
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  Milns put the Phillies up five to zero with an
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  RBI single to write. In the seventh. The Storm eight
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  point fifteen did all their scoring in their last at bat.
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  Caden Hogg got BEV on the board in the bottom
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  of the seventh with a sack flight to a center
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  to bring home Avery Bopes. They scored again on a
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  Morrison error before Duncan ended the threat with a strikeout
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  and a PopOut. BB coach Dave Sheppard was pleased to
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  see the Storm keep on fighting. I think we had
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  two or three opportunities earlier, we just couldn't get a
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  timely hit, he said. And then at the end the
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  girls strung some hits together, and that's what we need
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  to do. One thing we're missing is we are not
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  stringing hits together the storm. We're also missing senior captain Clatcher,
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  Emily Wright, who was ill, and classmate Katrina Wall who
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  is injured. Emily is under the weather last night and tonight.
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  She's one of our leaders. She makes us go right.
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  She's my leader out on the field, She's my leader
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  on a fence, Sheppard said. Her and Hog have just
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  been hitting a ton, and Ellie Carrington has been hitting
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  a ton. Really happy with her. Milns two RBIs Skochette
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  Duncan and Peyton Lowry triple had two hits apiece for
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  the Phillies. Duncan, who has taken over Morrison's role of
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  ace this season from her sister Bella who now plays
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  for Western Michigan, went the root for the win. Eva
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  is one of our team captains and it's nice to
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  have her in a leadership role, playing such a heavy role,
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  Rice said, and Ali Anderson has just been a rock
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  solid player for us behind the plate. Going to miss
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  her next year. Sheppard was equally pleased with the Storm's
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  sophomore pitcher Danica Benavidez, who scattered twelve hits with a
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  walk and seven strikeouts. Gave up five runs and I
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  would take two off the board due to errors. Three runs.
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  We should be there, so very happy, he said,