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Elgin’s Perryman throws two-hitter at Streamwood
Updated: May 9, 2011 10:32PM
First Elgin pitcher Hannah Perryman struck out the side Monday against Streamwood — the entire side, that is. All nine players.
Then she just kept going. And although her streak, and soon a perfect game and no-hitter ended, the junior left-hander picked up her second shutout of the season along with 15 strikeouts and her ninth home run in the Maroons’ 9-0 Upstate Eight Conference River Division victory over the Sabres.
“Once she gets on a streak, you can’t stop her,” said Elgin’s freshman catcher Kelly Bremer. “You just can’t stop her.”
Perryman kept the perfect game and strikeout streak until two were out in the fourth inning. She had struck out the first 11, but then walked Streamwood sophomore Brittany Delao on a 3-1 pitch.
Then, with two out in the fifth, freshman Kaitlyn Hedger lined a two-out pitch opposite field into the right-center field gap that rolled near the fence for a double to end the no-hitter.
“It was a nice hit,” Perryman said. “I don’t know what happened, she just got her hands up. It was a fastball, a high fastball.
“I just thought to myself after that they weren’t going to get another one.”
They did, but only because speedy left-handed slap hitter Brianna Bogdajewicz put down a perfect bunt to third base for a single leading off the seventh. She was left at third base when Perryman struck out Hedger to end the game.
“Hannah was just on,” Elgin coach Chad Dahlman said. “I think a lot of the other games when she’s had control problems, she presses too much and thinks she needs to do it all by herself.
“Today, it seemed like she showed up and had a free and easy mentality and just went out and threw great.”
The Sabres had only two hits and Perryman walked only two. The first walk to Delao was quickly erased to end the third when Bremer threw her out trying to steal second. So Perryman faced only three batters over the minimum.
“I was just hitting my spots, inside, outside,” said Perryman (8-4). “My curve ball was helping, my riser was working good. And it helped that Kelly Bremer was turning everything in and was doing an awesome job behind the plate spotting me.
“I did have nine strikeouts in a row to start against East Aurora this year, but then coach took me out early.”
The Maroons (16-12, 5-8) couldn’t afford that luxury Monday because the Sabres hung tough behind pitcher Kellee Conquest (1-7) until the fifth inning.
Elgin led 1-0 after Jennah Perryman blasted a one-out, second-inning pitch high and deep over the fence in left-center. It was the freshman’s third home run of the season.
The Sabres (3-18, 2-10) still trailed 1-0 in the fifth when Anna Eckholm reached on an error leading off, and Rachel Roth reached on another misplay after she put down a sacrifice bunt. Hannah Perryman, who has equalled a state record with three grand slams this year, stepped in and launched a three-run homer deep over the right-center field fence to make it 4-0.
The Maroons quickly loaded the bases with singles by Kremer, who had three hits on the game, Jennah Perryman and Jaclyn Navarro. They scored on Monica Stockman’s RBI fielder’s choice grounder to short and a two-run single by Kendra Johnson. Stockman’s sacrifice fly and an RBI single by Navarro in the sixth closed out the scoring with nine runs, eight more than Perryman needed.
“That was the fastest pitcher we’ve seen all year,” Streamwood coach Nick Baird said. “We were battling her the whole game. We weren’t standing up there just taking third strikes for the most part.
“And we were in the game until we made a couple mistakes in the field. Then, instead of a solo shot, it’s a three-run home run and that’s it.”
With a conference title no longer a possibility, a win over a rival and provided some satisfaction to the Maroons.
“Our goal is to play well down the stretch heading into regionals,” Dahlman said. “We’ve got four more this week, two next week and we want to get on a little bit of a roll.”
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