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Shawmeker Blast Lone Highlight for Romeoville Softball

Romeoville fell to below .500 on the softball season after dropping a 9-4 verdict to Oswego East in Southwest Prairie action Tuesday afternoon.

Softball and baseball are unique compared to sports like football or basketball in critical ways. For one thing: the defense controls the ball in the former two activities. Another aspect that is equally undeniable rests in the importance of the count on the batter.

“We got behind in the counts a couple of times early, and it cost us with an early home run,” Romeoville assistant coach Matt Hodges said in the aftermath of the Spartans’ 9-4 Southwest Prairie loss to Oswego East at home on Tuesday afternoon.

The Wolves scored a pair in the first inning and never looked back in dropping the Spartans to below .500 on the season (10-11). Oswego East put the game away with four runs in its final at-bat.

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Jami Shawmeker would have a monstrous blast, but the ninth home run of the season for the Spartans’ four-year varsity member was far too little, too late. With Romeoville trailing 9-1 in the bottom of the seventh, Shawmeker drove her 3-run blast over the center-field fence.

“I was waiting on a pitch, and (the Minooka pitcher) put it on the sweet spot (of the plate),” Shawmeker said. “I didn’t think (I hit it hard enough) at first. I was worried that it was too high.”

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Hattie Holland produced the Spartans’ other run with a third-inning RBI groundout.

“We had our chances offensively,” Hodges said. “You can’t make the little mistakes (in the field that cost  two runs).”

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