Big Day – Mattie Carney of Oak Glen offers a field against Wheeling Central in Thursday's section match. Carney had a home run and launched a full game in a 3-1 Golden Bears victory. – Kim North
New Manchester – A pair of softball programs in high school with the steep history of the state tournament met in the final of the supports of the winner of the AA region I of class A class AA, Section I, Thursday.
Oak Glen (24-8) with a seeded (24-8) placed himself in the driver's headquarters of the three team event with a 3-1 triumph over Wheeling Central N ° 2 on the Sun-Sun, but windy, Suzan L. Smith Fields of Dreams, in the county of Hancock.
The Maroon Knights (18-8) will now face Tyler consolidated in an elimination match Friday
Lisa's field at the I-470 JB Chambers complex in Elm Grove at 5 p.m., they bleached the Silver Knights 10-0 Wednesday in five rounds. This winner will have to beat the Golden Bears twice – at home – for the championship.
“I thought we played a very good match to the seventh round, but we played hard and Wheeling Central too,” said head coach of the veteran Oak Glen Sherrie Garner.
Josie Frizzell of Wheeling Central and Mattie Carney of Oak Glen were locked in the duel of a goalless launcher until Carney takes matters into hand. The second left-hander took a 2-2 launch from Frizzell and placed it on the fence for an advantage of 1-0 leading half of the fourth at home.
“When you make Josie work as hard and you finally get a PI6ch to strike, you have to take advantage of it, and she did it. It is the first home run that we hit by the fence here this season,” said Garner. “We had a few circuits inside the park and the opposition struck a couple, but it was our first.”
The Golden Bears, who won a state title in 1998 and were a lasting participant in the state tournament in the past three decades, has added a pair of races, thanks to a few questionable calls for a margin of 3-0 in the fifth.
Macy Hartung kicked a single single in mind and stole second. With a withdrawal, Riley Bruce tried a sacrifice but made him skirt in the first base line. Sydney HUPP of Wheeling Central loaded and seemed to have caught the ball before it touched the lawn, but the marble referee reigned differently. Hupp rolled up and launched first, but the ball fled while Hartung ran home and Bruce progressed in the second row. Addie Smith followed with a double score away in the right center.
“I guess my opinion on the referees does not count, but they missed two calls … Two of them immediately,” said head coach of Wheeling Central, Buck Davidson. “Oh, it would be the round oak that Glen scored two points.”
Davidson also thought that Hartung had stole second before the jump. However, the referee judged that the ball had been abandoned.
Garner said that the right teams take advantage of what the opposition gives them.
“We had good atmosphere of this round and we emphasize,” said Garner. “I thought we had very well ran the basics too.”
Carney sailed through six images. After serving a single to Morgan Miehle to start the match, the Southpaw retired 14 before Bella Rine was concentrating with two withdrawals in the fifth. Carney obtained the first fate of the seventh before giving up a double Josie Frizzell. It was replaced on the basic basins by the runner with the kind authorization Katie Palmer. With two withdrawals, Rine ended short, but the throw of the first was Wild and Palmer ran home to do it 3-1. Another golden bear error allowed the gunshot race to come on the plate, but Carney prompted a fault to end things.
Morgan Miehle added a double to his single while the Maroon Knights gathered only four strokes.
Carney has withdrawn 10 years and did not allow to pass for free when it is released from 98 throws.
Frizzell, meanwhile, attracted nine and walked three. She also abandoned four strokes.
“Their launcher launched well, but we only started hitting the ball at the last round,” offered Davidson. “They wanted it more than us. It was a very difficult loss for us, but I hope that we will bounce back tomorrow (Friday) and come back to them on Saturday.”
