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Jacksonville’s Alyvia Woods smashes a triple to key a 14-run inning in a 15-0 win over Decatur Eisenhower in Jacksonville on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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Jacksonville pitcher Kenzie Law delivers a pitch during a softball game against Decatur Eisenhower in Jacksonville on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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The Jacksonville softball team erupted for 14 runs in the second inning, and Kenzie Law pitched a four-inning one-hitter as the Crimsons rolled to a\u00a015-0 win over Decatur Eisenhower on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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With the win, Jacksonville snapped a four-game losing streak against some of the Central State Eight\u2019s better teams. The Crimsons improved to 5-8.<\/p>\n
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After going down in order in the first inning, Jacksonville batted around twice in the second. The Crimsons scored 14 runs on five singles, six walks, two doubles and a two-run triple by\u00a0Alyvia Woods that jump-started the big inning.<\/p>\n
Woods swung the biggest bat on Tuesday, recording two hits in the pivotal second inning. Battling a slump lately, she said support from her teammates makes all the difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just kind of have to have confidence in yourself,\u201d she said. \u201cWith the team supporting you, it\u2019s so helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woods was patient at the plate. Her triple came on a 3-1 count. On her second hit in the inning, she fouled off seven pitches before she found one she liked, singling past the second baseman to keep the inning going. She said it was the longest at-bat she\u2019s ever had \u2014 or seen.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was pretty stressful, honestly,\u201d Woods said, smiling. \u201cI was just trying to put the ball in play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacksonville scored four more runs after Woods\u2019 second hit.<\/p>\n
Woods,\u00a0Maci Moore and Malin Camerer had two hits apiece to lead the Crimsons. Moore and Chase Neice each hit a double.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the team as a whole did really, really great,\u201d\u00a0Neice said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been doing a lot of live at-bats at practice and a lot of front toss, and practicing high tees and low tees and weighted balls, and I think that it\u2019s all come together really nicely for us. We\u2019ve been hitting the ball solid.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Law was in command in the circle. Her\u00a0fastball, cutter, drop pitch and changeup were all working on Tuesday. She struck out three batters and didn\u2019t walk anybody, and let her defense work.<\/p>\n
\u201cInfield did amazing,\u201d Law said. \u201cReally grateful for my outfielders because they saved what could have been a few hits. But all in all, it was great.\u201d<\/p>\n
A leadoff single by Eisenhower in the fourth inning spoiled the no-hitter.<\/p>\n
Neice, the team\u2019s catcher, praised the Crimsons hurler.<\/p>\n
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\u201cShe did really good today,\u201d Neice said. \u201cWe were working with some different pitches that she doesn\u2019t normally throw against some other teams, and she hit her spots really, really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four of Jacksonville\u2019s five wins have been by eight runs or more. After being on the receiving end of some of those scores over the years, it\u2019s nice to be on the other side.<\/p>\n
The Crimsons hope to ride the momentum from Tuesday\u2019s win as they begin the second half of the season. The Crimsons were to have hosted West Central on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt feels amazing,\u201d Woods said. \u201cI\u2019m so happy to have a day like today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville’s Alyvia Woods smashes a triple to key a 14-run inning in a 15-0 win over Decatur Eisenhower…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,72633,110],"class_list":["post-232987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-softball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}