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Liv Lathen, Yorkville use little ball late to get by Benet in eight innings · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Live Lathan Yorkville use little ball late to get by
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  Speaker 1: Bennit in eight innings. Written by Joshua Welge, this article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlett with Live Lathan's wheels. The Yorkville junior shortstop
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  Speaker 1: always has the green light to lay down a bunt,
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  Speaker 1: no sign needed. It was my call, Lathan said. The
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  Speaker 1: coaches they know I do that sometimes. Last game, I
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  Speaker 1: bunted for a hit and they scored me. I've been
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  Speaker 1: fast my whole life. I trust myself and trust I
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  Speaker 1: can get the bunt down. The Foxes had the need
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  Speaker 1: for Lathan's speed. In a tie game with Benit Friday
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  Speaker 1: and one out in the bottom of the eighth, lath
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  Speaker 1: And beat out a bunt up the first base line
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  Speaker 1: and took third as Cali Ferko reached base on a
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  Speaker 1: low throw on another bunt, and then Lathan beat the
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  Speaker 1: throw home on Kayla Kursting's grounder up the middle as
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  Speaker 1: the Foxes beat Bene three minutes two. The Foxes nine
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  Speaker 1: minutes five were held at bay for much of Friday's game,
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  Speaker 1: just five hits through seven innings by Bonnet's and no
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  Speaker 1: Ol Chlody, a tall sophomore lefty Lathan A Linden would commit,
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  Speaker 1: was zero for three her first three times up, with
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  Speaker 1: two pop ups and a strike up, so Laythan dropped
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  Speaker 1: down the first pitch she saw on the eighth for
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  Speaker 1: the bunt. I decided that I wasn't really doing so
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  Speaker 1: hot my first three at bats. I'm just gonna get
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  Speaker 1: on base and believe in my teammates to get me in,
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  Speaker 1: Lathan said. Yorkville coach Jory Reginier believes in Layden's speed
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  Speaker 1: and her softball brains to make the right call to bunt.
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  Speaker 1: She reads the first basement sometimes and I let her
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  Speaker 1: know it's okay to make that decision. Certain kids that
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  Speaker 1: I know are quick and can lay one down. They
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  Speaker 1: have the green light. Rednueor's sad. Live is so good
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  Speaker 1: at taking it down the first baseline. It's so hard
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  Speaker 1: for a catcher to get to, and she's fast. Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: resorted to a lot of bunting, lad even from unlikely sources. Kursting,
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville's clean up hitter in an Iowa commit, bunted for
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  Speaker 1: a hit in the six and No. Three hitter fur
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  Speaker 1: Go got the sign with Lathan on first trying to
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  Speaker 1: get something going. Regniard said that last one keeping things
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  Speaker 1: rolling at that point, the pressures on them to make plays.
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  Speaker 1: Worst case, we have a runner on second base either
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  Speaker 1: way is going to set Kayla up to get the
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  Speaker 1: winning run. In Little ball was called for the way
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  Speaker 1: Chlody was dealing. She struck out six and allowed just
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  Speaker 1: six hits in one walk. She had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rise on her ball and she was consistent.
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  Speaker 1: Reginier said she wasn't fast, but the ball came out
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  Speaker 1: of her hand quick. Benay three minus nine, which snapped
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  Speaker 1: an eight game losing streak with a win over Naperville
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  Speaker 1: North Wednesday would love to get more of the same
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  Speaker 1: out of Chlody going forward. The Red Wings have been
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  Speaker 1: without their best pitcher and one of their best hitters
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  Speaker 1: in Omaha commits Sophie Rosner since the season's second game
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  Speaker 1: with a pulled muscle in her back. That was probably
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  Speaker 1: her best game so far this season, but Nay coach
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  Speaker 1: Janet Royle said she was hitting her spots, mixing in
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  Speaker 1: her change up well, and she just looked dominating her
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  Speaker 1: being so tall, I think the ball looks like it's
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  Speaker 1: coming in lower and it comes in higher. It's a
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  Speaker 1: different look. Good for Royal and the Red Wings. They
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  Speaker 1: still have Rosner's twin. Lany, a Southern Illinois commit. The
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  Speaker 1: senior catcher singled her first two at bats and drilled
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  Speaker 1: a booming double the fifth to score tospoenut Pitos for
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  Speaker 1: a Tuminus one bene lead. Rosner worked a nine pitch
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  Speaker 1: walk in the seventh. Laney she very rarely strikes out.
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  Speaker 1: She is going to put the ball in play and hard.
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  Speaker 1: Royle said, it was a great game. It could have
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  Speaker 1: gone either way. Alyssa Muhlbach's RBI single for Yorkville in
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the fifth tied at Twuminus two. Benet
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  Speaker 1: had a golden opportunity to break through in the top
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  Speaker 1: of the eighth, as Chlody hit a sinking liner past
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  Speaker 1: the right fielder for a leadoff triple, but Yorkville's Ellie
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  Speaker 1: Fox kept the runner at third with two ground outs
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  Speaker 1: to lath and sandwiched around a strikeout. Just focus on
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  Speaker 1: the batter and not worry about the runner, Fox said,
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  Speaker 1: I just focus on hitting my spots and breathing and
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  Speaker 1: trust my teammates to make plays. Benet had five leadoff
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  Speaker 1: runners reach base, including each of the last three innings,
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  Speaker 1: but only in the first inning did that runner score.
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville pitchers Bella Roseauer, who threw the first five plus innings,
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  Speaker 1: and Fox combined for ten strikeouts while limiting the damage
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  Speaker 1: of eight hits and four walks. Awesome job. Reginier said.
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  Speaker 1: They are very calm, complementary of each other, completely different styles,
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  Speaker 1: something that will continue to help us down the road.