2010

East Central Johnson County 2 East Central wa ... tcd little time injwnping on johnson County (Kan.) on Friday in the second round Friday. TheWarriors ~red three in the first and four in the third. All nine runs were tallied on home runs. Newton Cou~~- product Kasie Buddey -.mashed a three– run home run in the first after Summer .:Uexander, also a former .1. 'ewton County standout. 'Sin~ed and Chisolm walked. Two inning.: later, East Cen– ~ (46--9) got anuther blast, this lime from Lee. Chisolm started the rally "'ith a double before Cochran ffiO\'ed her to third with a single. Hol--en then walked to load lhf bases for Lee. who --mashed her grand s1am to :i.e:,nht

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One inrung later, theWar– riors put their first two r~nners on as Brittney Cochran smgled and Paige Holsen reached on an error that allowed Cochran to advance to third. Hannah Lee, a former LeakeAcademy standout, followed with a sacri– fice fly to tie the game. After Morgan Malone reached , an error, she was cuaght st• andTaylor n..tiley gro':nt out, stranding Holsen at third. The game remained knotted at 1 until the sixth. There, Hannah Santora reached on an error and Stipek singled, moving Santora to third. Tara Buchanan gave Kankakee the lead with a sacrifice fly and . three batters later, Sam Arenkill singled to plate Stipek. . East Central would get a parr of singles in the bottom of the seventh a leadoff hit from Bailey a~d a two-out hit from Hailey Chisolm, but the War– riorswere unable to get the run. Bailey suffered the hard-luck loss allowing three runs- one ear~ed- on five hits and striking out five.

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East Central Community College pitcher Taylor Bailey pitched a complete game to lead the Warriors past Johnson County (Kan.) in the second round of the NJCAA Division II national champi– onship Friday in Normal, Ill. East Central upended by Kankakee at nationals ·

from staff reports

After blasting pastJohnson County (Kan.) in the second round of the NJCMDivision II softball national championship Friday, East Central Com–

munity Col– lege ran into trouble in the third round.

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Kankakee used a rno-run rally in the sixth tobreakadeadlocktoedge --East Centra13-l. TheWarriors beatJohnson County7-2 earlier

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SPIRIT OF MORTON

-----in the day in Normal, ill.

MERIDIAN STAR

X Kankakee grabbed the lead -~_;__ ___ in the first. getting a one-out

single from Shannon Stipek, who stole second a.!)d then scored on a two-out double from Brianna DiGioia. East Central would rallv. thoup;h.