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New month, new result: Oswego East flips the script again, beats Yorkville to remain red-hot · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: New month, new result. As we Go East flips the
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  Speaker 1: script again beats Yorkville to remain red hot. Written by
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Welge, this article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. What a difference a
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  Speaker 1: month makes, Faith Haggarty, Katie Miday, and as we Goo
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  Speaker 1: East can attest to that shut out by Oswego and
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville by a combined seventeen zero margin in April. The
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  Speaker 1: Wolves have returned the favor in successive Wednesdays. What's the difference?
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, our energy, said Haggarty, Oswego East
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  Speaker 1: sophomore pitcher. We had a lot more energy this game
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  Speaker 1: than last game with them. We came out and we
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  Speaker 1: scored first. When you score first, it makes a big difference.
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  Speaker 1: Scoring last is big too. Miday did it with her
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  Speaker 1: two out tie breaking single in the top of the sixth.
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  Speaker 1: Haggarty made it stand, retiring nine of the last ten
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  Speaker 1: batters she faced in Oswego East three to two win
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  Speaker 1: at Yorkville in Wednesday's Southwest Prairie Conference game. Aswego East
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  Speaker 1: twenty four nine ninety seven started the season seven zero,
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  Speaker 1: then hit a mid season low, but the Wolves. Since
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  Speaker 1: the calendar flipped to May have won eleven of twelve,
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  Speaker 1: with wins over Oswego and Yorkville twenty four nine to twelve,
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  Speaker 1: three top two teams in their conference in sectional. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't want to play us in the playoffs. Oswego East
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  Speaker 1: coach Sarah Davies said, no matter how far we go,
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  Speaker 1: we've had a successful season. Haggarty, who tagged teams in
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  Speaker 1: the pitching circle with Addison Dunn, was tagged for nine
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  Speaker 1: hits in a seven zero loss to Yorkville in April
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  Speaker 1: and hurt by four errors behind her, but she limited
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  Speaker 1: the Foxes to four hits in the rematch with five strikeouts.
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  Speaker 1: Her rise ball cokes thirteen pop ups in flyouts, top
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  Speaker 1: hoopouts by Iowa recruit Kaylea Hursting with runners in scoring
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  Speaker 1: position in the fourth and six and a game ending
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  Speaker 1: Foxes pop up. I just know to throw it off
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  Speaker 1: the plate and hope to make them swing, Haggarty said.
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  Speaker 1: Don't throw anything down the middle or close to the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Haggerty's defense helped her cause. Left fielder Maya Bobo made
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  Speaker 1: a leaping catch at the fence on a drive by
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  Speaker 1: Kersting in the second inning second basement. Danielle Stone soared
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  Speaker 1: for a liner in the seventh that helped me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Haggarty said they saved the game. Bobo walked leading off
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  Speaker 1: the sixth in a two to two game, and Kylie
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  Speaker 1: Manners singled. After a strikeout and ground out, Miday hit
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  Speaker 1: the second pitch she saw from Yorkville's Ellie Fox for
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  Speaker 1: the single to left to bring in the go ahead run.
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  Speaker 1: I was just thinking, get on any way I can.
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  Speaker 1: Wanted to make sure to move the runners. Made said
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  Speaker 1: just stay one pitch at a time and try not
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  Speaker 1: to think about it too much. I made sure to
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  Speaker 1: start my swing earlier because I was a little late
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  Speaker 1: in the previous at bats. Madde had popped out to
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  Speaker 1: Fox with two runners on in the fourth. But there
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  Speaker 1: is nobody Davies would rather have up than her third
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  Speaker 1: year starter, returning allstater and Carroll University commit. That's what
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  Speaker 1: she is there, That's why she's in that spot. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I trust her. Davey said, that's her spot, and
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  Speaker 1: she did it. Olivia Owls, who had three hits for
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  Speaker 1: Oswego East Bunt, singled to lead off the game and
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  Speaker 1: scored on Megan Halverson single. Another Halverson single drove in
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  Speaker 1: Stone to make it two zero in the third. Yorkville's
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  Speaker 1: first two batters in the fourth reached on errors and
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  Speaker 1: Bella Rosauer singled both in to tie it to two,
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  Speaker 1: but the Foxes, fresh off the emotional high of their
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  Speaker 1: win over Oswego Tuesday, couldn't muster much more offense against Haggarty.
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  Speaker 1: Rosauer had two hits, Muhlbach a triple, and Fox struck
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  Speaker 1: out eight for Yorkville, which remained a game up on
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Minuka. With one conference game left, the Foxes are
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  Speaker 1: at Juliet Central Thursday. We just didn't get much going,
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville coach Jory Regisi said. Some of our solid contact,
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  Speaker 1: they made really good plays on It wasn't our day Offensively,
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  Speaker 1: when you have runners in scoring positions, you have to
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  Speaker 1: be able to execute. Davies, meanwhile, liked how her team
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  Speaker 1: responded after giving up the lead. We have really just
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  Speaker 1: emphasized being able to push through when something goes wrong.
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  Speaker 1: When something goes our way, how are we going to
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  Speaker 1: fix it? Davy said. They have been playing softball since
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  Speaker 1: they were in diapers. They have the skills, it's the
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  Speaker 1: mental adjustments. That's who they are. They are mentally tough players.
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  Speaker 1: Today they showed a lot of grit