Marengo's Season Gets a Jolt
Indians end regular season with 10-2 loss to Andrew Thunderbolts ...
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At Tinley Park Andrew
(5/22/10)
Marengo Tournament
Championship
Andrew 10, Marengo 2
Key: AB-H-R-RBI
Andrew (10) – Katie
Christner ss 4-2-0-1. Kelly
McGrail 2b 5-1-0-0, Kelly
Christner lf 4-1-2-0, Julie
Love 1b 4-2-1-1, Alex
Washkowiak c 1-1-1-1, Paige
Greenhill cr 0-0-0-0, Katie
Kelly dp 3-1-1-0, Samantha
Staisiunas ph 1-0-0-0, Jessie
Tucker rf 4-1-1-3, Brooke
McDermott cf 4-1-1-0,
Shannon Rust 3b 3-1-0-0,
Brooke Hoefer p 0-0-0-0.
Totals: 33-11-10-7.
Marengo (2) – Reed Carsten
rf 4-1-0-0, Bethany DeGrand
rf 0-0-0-0, Lauren
Roudabush ss 3-1-1-0,
Amanda Hart 2b 2-0-0-0,
Chloe Montgomery 1b/p 3-2-
0-1, Danielle Simons p/1b 3-
1-1-1. Kaleigh Velasquez c 2-
0-0-0, Stephanie Cartwright lf
3-0-0-0, Alyson Grude cf 3-1-
0-0. Marcy Behm dp 3-0-0-0,
Brittany Siegfort flex 0-0-0-0.
Totals: 26-6-2-2.
Andrew 010 531 0 – 10 11 1
Marengo 001 001 0 – 2 6 2
LOB – Marengo 5; Andrew 7,
2B - Love 2, Washkowiak,
Karsten. HR - Tucker,
Simons. SB - Washkowiak,
Love, Roudabush. Double
Plays - Andrew (6-4-3). HBP -
Washkowiah (by Simons).
WP - Simons, Hoefer.
Andrew ip r er h bb k
Hoefer (W) 7 2 2 6 1 1
Marengo
Simons (L, 20-3) 4 8 5 7 1 1
Montgomery 3 2 2 4 1 6
Records: Marengo (31-4),
Andrew (28-4).
(5/22/10)
Marengo Tournament
Championship
Andrew 10, Marengo 2
Key: AB-H-R-RBI
Andrew (10) – Katie
Christner ss 4-2-0-1. Kelly
McGrail 2b 5-1-0-0, Kelly
Christner lf 4-1-2-0, Julie
Love 1b 4-2-1-1, Alex
Washkowiak c 1-1-1-1, Paige
Greenhill cr 0-0-0-0, Katie
Kelly dp 3-1-1-0, Samantha
Staisiunas ph 1-0-0-0, Jessie
Tucker rf 4-1-1-3, Brooke
McDermott cf 4-1-1-0,
Shannon Rust 3b 3-1-0-0,
Brooke Hoefer p 0-0-0-0.
Totals: 33-11-10-7.
Marengo (2) – Reed Carsten
rf 4-1-0-0, Bethany DeGrand
rf 0-0-0-0, Lauren
Roudabush ss 3-1-1-0,
Amanda Hart 2b 2-0-0-0,
Chloe Montgomery 1b/p 3-2-
0-1, Danielle Simons p/1b 3-
1-1-1. Kaleigh Velasquez c 2-
0-0-0, Stephanie Cartwright lf
3-0-0-0, Alyson Grude cf 3-1-
0-0. Marcy Behm dp 3-0-0-0,
Brittany Siegfort flex 0-0-0-0.
Totals: 26-6-2-2.
Andrew 010 531 0 – 10 11 1
Marengo 001 001 0 – 2 6 2
LOB – Marengo 5; Andrew 7,
2B - Love 2, Washkowiak,
Karsten. HR - Tucker,
Simons. SB - Washkowiak,
Love, Roudabush. Double
Plays - Andrew (6-4-3). HBP -
Washkowiah (by Simons).
WP - Simons, Hoefer.
Andrew ip r er h bb k
Hoefer (W) 7 2 2 6 1 1
Marengo
Simons (L, 20-3) 4 8 5 7 1 1
Montgomery 3 2 2 4 1 6
Records: Marengo (31-4),
Andrew (28-4).
By Cody Cutter
Northern Illinois Sports Beat Publisher
TINLEY PARK - Marengo and Tinley Park Andrew had to wait two weeks to play each
other.
The two teams were scheduled to meet in the championship game of the Marengo
Tournament on May 8 before rain halted the event. Due to the diamond at Marengo being
unavailable, the championship game was being played at Andrew on Saturday.
In the regular season finale for both teams, the Indians were no match to the “visiting”
Thunderbolts of Andrew, falling 10-2.
Both Marengo (31-4) and Andrew (29-4) came into the game with long winning streaks:
Marengo's at 21 and Andrew's at 14. Although the streak stopped at the hands of one of
Chicagoland's best teams, the loss is something that the Indians can look at as a
motivator to perform well in the upcoming Class 3A postseason.
“I think we learned something from this game,” said Marengo pitcher Danielle Simons. “It's
going to help us. It's going to give us more momentum going into the postseason, and
we'll take some positive things from this.”
If Mother Nature didn't show up at Marengo two weeks ago, the regular season finale
would have been their 10-0 win over Hampshire on Wednesday. They would have entered
the postseason on more of a higher note.
“I think it's good maybe that we lost because then we can come back and come back
harder for regionals, sectionals and supersectionals,” said Marengo reliever Chloe
Montgomery.
With the scored tied at one run apiece to start the fourth inning, Andrew batted around
and scored five runs off of Simons (20-3). A double by Alex Washkowiak plated Kelly
Christner, who led off the inning with a single. After Katie Kelly singled to move
Washkowiak to third, Jessie Tucker hit a grounder to Brittany Siegfort at third. Siegfort
hesitated a bit to see who was running around her before throwing wide left toward first
base, plating Washkowiak. Brooke McDermott, Katie Christner and Kelly McGrail also had
RBI in the inning.
“We expected a good game and we expected good competition,” Andrew coach Jim Holba
said. “(Simons and Montgomery) are two good pitchers. We rose to the occasion by
putting the bat on the ball. It took a while to time them.
“Andrew's great, they played real well,” Marengo coach Dwain Nance said. “They can hit
the ball well, they play great defense, they pitch well, and they throw strikes.”
Simons was relieved by Montgomery after giving up a double and one run in the fifth.
After giving up a homerun to Tucker that inning, Montgomery helped stop the bleeding
the rest of the game by striking out six Thunderbolts.
“I thought we played hard all the way to the end,” said Montgomery. “We fought back,
tried, and it was a good game – not really a good game, but not one we wanted.”
An inning-and-a-half after being relieved in the pitcher's circle, Simons turned her
disappointment upside down, albeit temporarily, after hitting a solo homerun to centerfield
off Andrew pitcher Brooke Hofer on a 1-2 pitch.
“That was my first one, so I was happy about that,” said Simons.
Both teams played solid ball in the first three innings. Washkowiak scored first off of
Simons in the second inning. She reached when Simons beaned her, and proceeded to
steal second and barely advancing to third, going underneath a tag, during the next two
at-bats. Washkowiak scored when a Simons pitch flew past catcher Kaleigh Velasquez at
home.
Marengo's first run came in the third inning when Montgomery, the No. 4 hitter, singled in
Lauren Radabush, who reached on a throwing error by Andrew third baseman Shannon
Rust. Radabush was sacrificed to second base by Amanda Hart and stole third before
being driven in.
“We came out hitting the ball right away, we put the ball in play and didn't strike out too
much," said Simons. "We really wanted to focus on hitting. We didn't do as much in the
later innings, but other than that we hit the ball well. It just didn't fall our way.”
The Indians will have to work harder in practice, according to Nance, in order to be in top
shape for the Regional. They will play in the Belvidere Regional on Tuesday against
Monday's Belvidere-Rockford East winner.
“Win or lose, you have to learn from what went on,” Nance said.
Andrew is the No. 4 seed in a tough Class 4A Andrew Sectional field that includes Orland
Park Sandburg, Chicago Marist and Lincoln-Way East. The Thunderbolts take on
Monday's Chicago Julian-Bloom Township winner on Tuesday at the Joliet Regional.
Cody Cutter is Publisher of Northern Illinois Sports Beat. He can be reached at
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TINLEY PARK - Marengo and Tinley Park Andrew had to wait two weeks to play each
other.
The two teams were scheduled to meet in the championship game of the Marengo
Tournament on May 8 before rain halted the event. Due to the diamond at Marengo being
unavailable, the championship game was being played at Andrew on Saturday.
In the regular season finale for both teams, the Indians were no match to the “visiting”
Thunderbolts of Andrew, falling 10-2.
Both Marengo (31-4) and Andrew (29-4) came into the game with long winning streaks:
Marengo's at 21 and Andrew's at 14. Although the streak stopped at the hands of one of
Chicagoland's best teams, the loss is something that the Indians can look at as a
motivator to perform well in the upcoming Class 3A postseason.
“I think we learned something from this game,” said Marengo pitcher Danielle Simons. “It's
going to help us. It's going to give us more momentum going into the postseason, and
we'll take some positive things from this.”
If Mother Nature didn't show up at Marengo two weeks ago, the regular season finale
would have been their 10-0 win over Hampshire on Wednesday. They would have entered
the postseason on more of a higher note.
“I think it's good maybe that we lost because then we can come back and come back
harder for regionals, sectionals and supersectionals,” said Marengo reliever Chloe
Montgomery.
With the scored tied at one run apiece to start the fourth inning, Andrew batted around
and scored five runs off of Simons (20-3). A double by Alex Washkowiak plated Kelly
Christner, who led off the inning with a single. After Katie Kelly singled to move
Washkowiak to third, Jessie Tucker hit a grounder to Brittany Siegfort at third. Siegfort
hesitated a bit to see who was running around her before throwing wide left toward first
base, plating Washkowiak. Brooke McDermott, Katie Christner and Kelly McGrail also had
RBI in the inning.
“We expected a good game and we expected good competition,” Andrew coach Jim Holba
said. “(Simons and Montgomery) are two good pitchers. We rose to the occasion by
putting the bat on the ball. It took a while to time them.
“Andrew's great, they played real well,” Marengo coach Dwain Nance said. “They can hit
the ball well, they play great defense, they pitch well, and they throw strikes.”
Simons was relieved by Montgomery after giving up a double and one run in the fifth.
After giving up a homerun to Tucker that inning, Montgomery helped stop the bleeding
the rest of the game by striking out six Thunderbolts.
“I thought we played hard all the way to the end,” said Montgomery. “We fought back,
tried, and it was a good game – not really a good game, but not one we wanted.”
An inning-and-a-half after being relieved in the pitcher's circle, Simons turned her
disappointment upside down, albeit temporarily, after hitting a solo homerun to centerfield
off Andrew pitcher Brooke Hofer on a 1-2 pitch.
“That was my first one, so I was happy about that,” said Simons.
Both teams played solid ball in the first three innings. Washkowiak scored first off of
Simons in the second inning. She reached when Simons beaned her, and proceeded to
steal second and barely advancing to third, going underneath a tag, during the next two
at-bats. Washkowiak scored when a Simons pitch flew past catcher Kaleigh Velasquez at
home.
Marengo's first run came in the third inning when Montgomery, the No. 4 hitter, singled in
Lauren Radabush, who reached on a throwing error by Andrew third baseman Shannon
Rust. Radabush was sacrificed to second base by Amanda Hart and stole third before
being driven in.
“We came out hitting the ball right away, we put the ball in play and didn't strike out too
much," said Simons. "We really wanted to focus on hitting. We didn't do as much in the
later innings, but other than that we hit the ball well. It just didn't fall our way.”
The Indians will have to work harder in practice, according to Nance, in order to be in top
shape for the Regional. They will play in the Belvidere Regional on Tuesday against
Monday's Belvidere-Rockford East winner.
“Win or lose, you have to learn from what went on,” Nance said.
Andrew is the No. 4 seed in a tough Class 4A Andrew Sectional field that includes Orland
Park Sandburg, Chicago Marist and Lincoln-Way East. The Thunderbolts take on
Monday's Chicago Julian-Bloom Township winner on Tuesday at the Joliet Regional.
Cody Cutter is Publisher of Northern Illinois Sports Beat. He can be reached at
Northernillinoissportsbeat@yahoo.com. --- Talk about what's written on our Message
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Photo by Cody Cutter
Marengo pitcher Danielle Simons delivers a pitch during her team's Marengo Tournament
championship game at Tinley Park Andrew. The Indians fell 10-2 to the Thunderbolts.
Marengo pitcher Danielle Simons delivers a pitch during her team's Marengo Tournament
championship game at Tinley Park Andrew. The Indians fell 10-2 to the Thunderbolts.
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