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Kayden Corneils, Jillian Freemon help Sandwich flip the script from previous loss to Plano · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Caden Corneill's Gillian Freeman helped Sandwich flip The script from
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  Speaker 1: previous loss to Plano 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 Everlet. Caden Corneils had an uncharacteristic day at the
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  Speaker 1: plate the last time Sandwich faced Plano. Sandwich's senior leadoff
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  Speaker 1: hitter went without a base hit, one of just two
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  Speaker 1: times this spring in twenty games, and Corneill's struck out
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  Speaker 1: one of just three all season. I just focused on
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  Speaker 1: what I was doing wrong mechanically, Corneill said. Other than that,
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  Speaker 1: just bringing a new approach to the at bat. Last
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  Speaker 1: game we struggled. We were looking way too much cornels
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  Speaker 1: and the Indians got it right. Tuesday. She had two
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  Speaker 1: singles and scored two runs in the middle of two
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  Speaker 1: big Sandwich innings. Gillian Freeman had three hits, drove in four,
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  Speaker 1: and tossed a one hit her in the circle as
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  Speaker 1: Sandwich beat visiting Plano ten to zero in six innings.
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  Speaker 1: In the Kishwaukee River Conference matchup, Plano five fourteen two
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  Speaker 1: five beat Sandwich twelve eight four four four to oh
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  Speaker 1: On April seventh, this time. The Indians scored four runs
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  Speaker 1: in the third, five in the fifth, and finished it
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  Speaker 1: off with Freeman's RBI single in the sixth. Our hitting
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  Speaker 1: the first game was not there, Sandwich assistant coach Courtney
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  Speaker 1: Gallagher said, we adjusted and got on top of them.
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  Speaker 1: It took a little bit longer today to get into
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  Speaker 1: the hitting, but second time through we were picking her
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  Speaker 1: up for sure. Cor Nails, to no surprise, was a catalyst.
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  Speaker 1: Her single in the third inning loaded the bases, setting
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  Speaker 1: the stage for Abigail Johnson's two run single for the
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  Speaker 1: game's first two runs. Cor Nails led off the fifth
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  Speaker 1: with another single, an inning in which the Indians sent
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  Speaker 1: ten batters to the plate. Kendall Pietree had an RBI
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  Speaker 1: single in the inning. Cayden is one of our seniors
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  Speaker 1: and captains. Gallagher said she brings the leadership as well
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  Speaker 1: as the athletic ability. She certainly has the hit tool.
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  Speaker 1: Corneil's batted point four to thirty five with thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: hits and twenty two RBIs as a sophomore, and followed
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  Speaker 1: that up last season by hitting point five to seven
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  Speaker 1: to three with forty seven hits, nineteen for extra bases.
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  Speaker 1: After moving to leadoff. She's even better this year, batting
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  Speaker 1: point five eight two with forty six hits, sixteen for
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  Speaker 1: extra bases, and twenty eight runs scored. She has that
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  Speaker 1: natural athletic ability, plus it's her drive and her passion
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  Speaker 1: for the sport. Gallagher said she works really hard in
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  Speaker 1: and out of school, in and out of the sport. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: Corneils puts in the time at Elite Sports Performance in Oswego.
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  Speaker 1: The Wobbinz Community College commit goes there during the winter
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  Speaker 1: once a week during the season every other week, just
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  Speaker 1: a lot of practice. Outside of practice practicing, Cornell said,
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  Speaker 1: I take lessons personally and work on my own and
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  Speaker 1: go to the ESP facility. Freeman found herself batting with
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  Speaker 1: runners on three times Tuesday and came through each time.
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  Speaker 1: She went the opposite way for a triple to write
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  Speaker 1: in the third, driving in two to make it four zero.
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  Speaker 1: Freeman hit a bloop single in the center in the
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  Speaker 1: fifth for a five zero lead before her single in
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  Speaker 1: the sixth. Mainly just trying to make contact in those situations,
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  Speaker 1: Freeman said, if they happened to be a powerful one,
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy, But the main thing is to get on base.
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  Speaker 1: Freeman back after missing one game, breezed in the circle,
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  Speaker 1: retiring eleven batters in a row. At one point, she
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  Speaker 1: struck out four and walked just one. She came off
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  Speaker 1: of an injury a couple games ago, took a slide
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  Speaker 1: to the ankle at third base. Having some rest days
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  Speaker 1: was really helpful to her, I thought. Gallagher said. She
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  Speaker 1: saw the ball well at the plate. Pitching was hitting
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  Speaker 1: her spots great, doing what we needed. Plano's Elizabeth Hansel
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  Speaker 1: retired the first seven batters she faced before things got away,
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  Speaker 1: to which Reaper's coach Dwayne Love credited the Sandwich hitters.
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  Speaker 1: I was calling some inside pitches and they were going
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  Speaker 1: inside out on me and hitting over to the opposite side.
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  Speaker 1: Testament to them hitting the ball, Love said, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think we played that bad. We just didn't put enough
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  Speaker 1: balls in play. Hansel and Mackenzie Strausberger, who teamed up
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  Speaker 1: to shut out Sandwich the last game. Our two of
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  Speaker 1: five freshmen. Love is playing Chesney Ski Mandle had a
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  Speaker 1: hit for Plaano Tuesday. Five freshmen on the field and
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  Speaker 1: contending with a bunch of teams with juniors and seniors,
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  Speaker 1: We're doing okay, Love said, last three games barring Somanok.
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  Speaker 1: We went down by one run and we're leading in
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  Speaker 1: all three. We are right there.