When Buffalo Grove found itself down 10-1 in the sixth inning in Friday's Class 4A sectional final against host Warren, the Bison gave it their best shot at imitating the Blue Devils from two days earlier.
That's when No. 3 seeded Warren came back from an 11-3 deficit in the seventh inning to defeat Palatine 16-15 in a 10-inning semifinal.
After Kaitlin Weidemann completed a 3-for-4 day with a solo homer over the left center field fence to give Warren the 3-run lead in the top of the seventh, Jackson retired the side in order in the bottom of the inning to finish her 5-hitter with 6 strikeouts. "She did it at the end," said ninth-year coach Jenna Charbonneau."She is a tough kid, a pit bull and we knew that after that big inning they were not going to settle in and that they'd keep coming. We had a couple of bad bounces defensively our way in that sixth inning and that made for a long inning, But Sydney went back out there in the seventh and was about as good as she could have been.
"We started the game the way we wanted when we got the bases loaded," said BG first-year coach Martha Kelly."But the problem was that we only got 1 run." "I said to them before the bottom of the inning 'Do you think they're just going to sit back? Did we two days ago? I said 'No one is going to sit back at this stage of the season. It's not going to happen.'"
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