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Antioch continues win streak
Updated: June 7, 2011 1:34PM
Olivia Duehr pitched a seven-hit shutout and fanned 12, and Antioch High’s girls softball team continued its late-season surge by blanking host Lakes 9-0 on Monday in a key North Suburban Conference Prairie Division game.
The Sequoits are now 5-1 in the league and 14-6 overall, and they’ve won eight straight.
Lakes (6-8-2 overall) is 3-3 in the league and no longer a factor in the title chase.
“This was definitely the most complete game we’ve played all year,” said Antioch coach Jeff Tylka. “The loss to Vernon Hills (in division play) was tough. We kind of put ourselves in a hole. We’ve been telling the girls the last few weeks that everything we’ve been doing up until we played Lakes on Saturday was to gear up for them to make sure we gave our best effort.
“We struggled a little bit on Saturday (an 8-4 win). We didn’t have good at-bats with runners on third base with less than two out, but today we did that real well. We had a lot of opportunities today where we manufactured runs. We did a lot of little things today that we weren’t able to do Saturday.”
Of course, it all starts with pitching, and Duehr ruled the day. Lakes’ 1-2-3 hitters were a combined 1-for-10 with eight punchouts.
Antioch scored once in the second and once in the third, then broke the game open with a four-run fifth.
Key hits in the fifth were a leadoff single by Katie Keefe, a two-run double by Amber Mysliwiec, and an RBI single by Kaitlin Phillips.
The Sequoits then finished off the Eagles with a three-run sixth that featured hits by Phillips and Caylene Ressler.
Last year, Antioch finished third in the IHSA state tournament for smaller schools, but this group of Sequoits isn’t at that level.
Yet.
“If we don’t come with energy and take care of business the rest of the way, these wins don’t mean anything. We can’t take anyone lightly,” said Tylka.”
Today, Antioch will host Grant and Lakes will host North Chicago.
Grant, like Antioch, has just one league loss, but the Bulldogs’ wins have all been over bottom-feeders.
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