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La Salle-Peru’s all-senior lineup wins big over Rochelle on senior night · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Lasal Peru's all senior lineup wins big over Rochelle on
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  Senior Night. Written by Kevin Chlum, this article is being
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  read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  With nine seniors on the roster, lasal Peru softball coach
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  Randy Jabe had an easy time knowing who de pencil
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  into the lineup for Senior Night on Monday. However, Huebe
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  had to move some players to different positions to let
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  all the seniors who graduate Thursday start on their night.
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  The adjustments didn't hinder the Cavaliers at all, as they
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  scored four runs in each the first and second innings
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  en route to a ten zero, five inning victory over
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  Rochelle in an Interstate eight conference game in LaSalle. It
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  was a great time. We all had fun. LP senior
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  centerfielder Carmen Piano said, everyone was up in the dugout.
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  We all played together. I think it was great. The
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  class of twenty twenty six has played a key role
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  for the LP program over the last four years, with Piano,
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  Kelsey Frederick, and Taylor Vescagni being four year varsity players,
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  and Anna Reva and Lydia Steinbach, being three year varsity players.
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  The team's other seniors are bre Rupert, Danny Greer, Claire Boudreau,
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  and Sophia Piska. The majority of these girls I've had
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  on varsity for three to four years, so it's tough.
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  LP coach Randy Yobe said, it's tough going from senior
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  night to the end of the year. They've really changed
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  the culture of the school, even beyond softball. I love
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  these seniors. I don't want this to end. The Cavs
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  have started to get on a role as the regular
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  season winds down. LP has won five straight games after
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  a four game losing streak. I think we've really picked
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  it up at the end of the season, Pianzo said.
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  The beginning of the season was a little rocky. We're
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  working really hard and focusing. I think everyone is kind
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  of locked in now, so that's good. Coobi said an
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  adjustment to their offensive approach has been key for the Calves,
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  who were held to one run or less in three
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  of the four losses during their losing streak. During the
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  five game winning streak, LP is averaging nine runs per
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  game and has scored double digits three times. We made
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  some nice adjustments to our hitting a week and a
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  half ago, and we've really turned into the team I
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  thought we were. Yobey said there was just too much
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  movement with their bats, and by the time they were
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  ready to swing, the ball was by them. So we
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  just worked on going from A to B. Basically what
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  we said was eliminate the alphabet, just go A to B.
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  They did that against Dunlap in an eleven to one
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  win Friday, and boy, that was impressive. We did well.
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  Piano got the offense started Monday with a single to
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  left field to lead off the bottom of the first inning.
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  She later scored on a wild pitch. Greer delivered a
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  two run single to right field with two outs, and
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  Veskani scored the final four run on an errant throw
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  to second base on Greer steel. Piano started the four
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  run second with a one out double, Steinbach had an
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  RBI single, two scored when Ruppert reached on an error,
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  and Veskanyie hit an RBI double. Piano smacked an RBI
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  double in the third and scored the game ending run
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  in the fifth on a single by Steinbach. As the
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  leadoff hitter. I like to get the game started with
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  a hit. Piano said, it always works out well in
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  our favor. The offense provided more than enough for LP's
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  three senior pitchers. Veskangyi and Ruppert each threw two perfect innings.
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  Veskanyi struck out five batters and Ruppert fanned four. Boudro
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  gave up two hits in a scoreless fifth, striking out one.
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  I was impressed with the pitching, Huby said, Brie Rupert
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  came in and picked up where Taylor was. She went
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  right through them. Brie should be very happy and very confident.
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  Emma Heller and Cheyenne Summers each had a hit for
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  the Hubs four seventeen zero ten I eight. We knew
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  they are a good competition, Rochelle coach Anna chris Will said,
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  we just saw them last week. I thought we did
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  a good job of trying to minimize some of the
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  runs here and there. We had some errors, but we
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  did a good job of trying to pick each other
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  up and focus on the next play. Rochelle finishes the
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  week at Guilford, home of Sterling and at Stillman Valley.
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  Seeing that good competition is going to keep getting us
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  ready for the good competition, We'll see in the postseason.
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  Chriswell said LP eighteen twelve four to six. Ends the
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  regular season with home games against Rockridge and Serena before
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  playing Sterling and Metamora on Saturday.