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PREP SOFTBALL: Haegele makes Roxana bats go hush, Redbirds roll 12-0 - The Telegraph - 3/22/2019

PREP SOFTBALL: Haegele makes Roxana bats go hush, Redbirds roll 12-0

Greg Shashack, gshashack@thetelegraph.com

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  • Alton pitcher Alyson Haegele delivers to the plate during her one-hit win over Roxana on Thursday at Roxana Park. Photo: Greg Shashack / The Telegraph

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Alton pitcher Alyson Haegele delivers to the plate during her one-hit win over Roxana on Thursday at Roxana Park.

ROXANA – The Roxana Shells were averaging 11.6 runs per game and hitting .406 as a team in a 4-1 start from five roads games.

Alton pitcher Alyson Haegele proved immune to those numbers.

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The sophomore left-hander faced one batter over the minimum while tossing a one-hitter to lead the Redbirds to a 12-0 five-inning victory over the Shells at Roxana Park.

“Obviously, it’s early in the year,” Alton coach Dan Carter said. “But that’s a well-rounded game that we just played. We did everything right today. And Alyson pitched an extremely good game against a team that has been hitting the ball very well.”

Alton has bounced back from a season-opening 6-5 defeat at Quincy to pound small schools East Alton-Wood River (11-1), Bunker Hill (11-0) and Roxana to improve to 3-1. The Shells are 4-1.

Roxana, coming off a rousing come-from-behind 15-12 victory at Civic Memorial on Wednesday, saw its bats go suddenly quiet after a 20-hit afternoon in Bethalto included nine doubles and two home runs.

“Alyson did a wonderful job,” Roxana first-year coach Wade Stahlhut said of Haegele. “Our girls had a very emotional game last night and coming into this afternoon, we knew we were going to have to battle against Alton. They’ve been playing some good ball. It just didn’t turn out in our favor today. We’re going to come out and compete against Breese Central tomorrow.”

Stahlhut conceded the possibility of a letdown for his team after hitting two homers in a six-run seventh inning to beat CM, but saw no warning signs until the Redbirds started swinging in the first inning.

“In the warmup, our girls seemed fairly centered and ready to play ball,” Stahlhut said. “Our expectations were to come out and play, we just got outhit.”

The Redbirds scored in every inning and used solo home runs from Ashlyn Betz and Lynna Fischer in the fourth inning to put their lead at 9-0. That set up the early close in the fifth when Haegele’s single, Tami Wong’s double and an intentional walk to Betz loaded the bases for Emma Kiger’s three-run double.

Betz and Kiger both finished with four RBIs, and Betz joined Wong with three hits. Fischer drove in two runs and Haegele had two hits in Alton’s 10-hit, zero-errors performance.

“We had a good approach at the plate against their pitching,” Carter said. “We did a nice job of putting runs on the board and we ran the bases very well. … I couldn’t be happier with this game today this early in the season.”

Olivia Stangler started and took the loss for the Shells. She departed after the Redbirds’ two homers in the fourth and Taylor Nolan worked the final 1 2/3 innings.

Roxana’s lone hit came in the first inning when Abi Stahlhut lined an outside pitch to the outfield for a single. Haegele retired the next seven Shells before opening the fourth by walking Kiley Winfree to lead off the fourth.

That brought Stahlhut, a senior signed with Indiana, back to the plate and the 6-foot shortstop who was hitting .667 blistered a line drive that Alton second baseman Abby Scyoc snared and threw to first to double off Winfree.

“I’ve been around a while, seen some balls hit hard,” Carter said. “But that line drive to second base is about as hard as a ball can be hit. Lucky for us, it was right at our second baseman and we doubled her up.”

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