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Marquette softball rolls past Momence in Class 1A regional opener · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Marquette softball rolls past Moments in Class one A Regional opener.
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  Written by Brian Hoxy, this article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. The Marquette
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  softball team got off to good start in Tuesday's Class
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  one A Serena Regional semifinal. The top seeded Crusaders scored
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  a pair of runs in the first against number eight
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  seeded Moments, and then exploded for eight runs on eight
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  hits in the third on the way to an eventual
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  eleven zero victory in five innings. Marquette twenty four to seven,
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  moves on to Friday's four pm championship game against the
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  winner of Wednesday's semifinal between number four Serena and number
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  six Donovan Moments. Ends the season at five point fifteen.
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  When it gets to the postseason, you're playing to keep playing,
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  Marquette coach Curtis Johnson said, you have to show up
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  ready to play every game, and I thought we came
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  out today ready to go. We talked today about breaking
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  the game down, just win each inning, and if you
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  do that, we're going to be good. In the Crusaders
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  first Hunter Hopkins reached on a bunt single, stole second,
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  went to third on a wild pitch, and scored on
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  a booming triple to center field by Kelsey Kutra. Kutra
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  then scored on a pass ball to make it two zero.
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  In the third, Kutra started the huge rally with a
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  base hit after a flyout. Lily Brewer, Chloe Thrush, and
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  Savannah Erickson recorded consecutive singles, with each knocking in a run.
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  Then with two outs, Madison, Trainer and Hopkins poked back
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  to back RBI hits before Kutra lined a two run
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  double to left center to make it ten zero. I thought, offensively,
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  almost every single at bat was a competitive at bat.
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  Johnson said. We had a good approach and did a
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  great job of waiting back and hitting the ball the
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  other way. We made the adjustments throughout the game that
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  we needed to make. Lefty Taylor ga Means put the
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  icing on the cake in the fourth by slicing a
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  two out opposite field inside the park home run just
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  out of the reach of diving moments left fielder Jason walk.
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  I felt like I hit the ball pretty good on
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  that one, but where it went I didn't know if
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  the left fielder was gonna be able to get to
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  it or not game and said, I actually didn't see
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  the ball get past her. I was just running. Then
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  I looked at Coach Johnson as I was between first
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  and second, and he was waving me to keep going.
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  Then as I was getting close to third, he was
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  still waving me around, and I was like, oh my gosh,
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  that the very first time I ever had an inside
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  the park home run. I still can't believe it. Hopkins
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  and Koutra both went three for three on the day,
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  while Thrush finished with two hits. Marquette winning pitcher Kiinley
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  Rick allowed just one hit, two walks, and struck out
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  eight in the shutout. Kinley pitched a great game. Johnson
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  said she did what we asked her to do, and
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  that was to just throw strikes and let your defense
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  do their thing. Arnick lined a single to center with
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  two outs in the fourth for moments a lone hit
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  while jay Lee Cursey and Peyton Wigmore worked walks. Adison
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  Wilson four IP thirteen H eleven R three BB four
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  K suffered the loss in the circle. Marquette is the
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  top seed and we knew this would be a tough
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  one for US moments. First year coach Dave Singleton said,
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  we put the ball in play, not as much as
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  we would have like, and they made all the plays Defensively,
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  we have a relatively young and inexperienced team, but they
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  have really improved throughout the season. Last year we only
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  won one game, and this year we won five, including
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  our first regional win in probably ten years. I'm hoping
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  this year was the first step in building a good,
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  solid culture.