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Please enable Javascript to watch this video Chesapeake, Va. It's game time! The PenSouth Conference Softball Tournament is held in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Here's what happened: Head Coach Red Lindsay on the left, talking strategy with assistant Jason Burns. It's the bottom of the second inning when senior Alissa Upton has her own approach to the game: just hit it up the middle - and that's what she does - the Dukes have a rally going. After a two out walk, captain Shelby Alton has her own plan of attack - 'hit it where they ain't' - she takes the Braves pitcher deep to right center field, and it bounces off the Indian River sign.

The double drives in two runs and the Dukes have an early lead. It's the bottom of the fourth. The bases are loaded for Kaleigh Arnett; she would drive the 2-2 pitch to left center. Two more runs would cross the plate and the Dukes are up five to one on the Braves. Those five runs would be more than enough for pitcher Morgan Haywood. She was in command all day as she secures her 14th win of the year.

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The Gloucester Dukes advance to next week's regional tournament. The second game of the afternoon featured the defending 5A state champs, Great Bridge Wildcats, against their cross-town rivals, the Hickory Hawks. The Hawks get going early - lead-off hitter Sarah Martin with the infield hit. Then, two batters later, Lauren Duff comes to the plate.

She would hit what would look like a long foul ball out, but watch as the ball goes off Bryce Skyova's glove and somehow gets back into fair territory and over the wall. The umpires twirl the finger signaling a home run. Duff would touch them all for her ninth homer of the year. It would give the Hawks a two-to-nothing.

Lauren Beth O'Conner would add a third run with this fly in the fourth inning. The Hickory Hawks advance to their thirteenth straight regional tournament after taking down the Wildcats three to nothing.

Welcome to Northeastern Conference softball, Roberta Cozad. The Eagles’ first-year coach began her coaching tenure at Geneva with not much of a challenge on Monday. Unless you consider playing at Edgewood, which has won the last six league titles, difficult. “Yeah, some opener, huh?” she said with a laugh before Monday’s game against the Warriors. “The league schedule is not something you can control, so we’ll just go out and play.” Cozad, who played at Pymatuning Valley as Roberta Janowski, and her husband, Kyle, are expecting their second child, joining their son, Benjamin. Daughter Joslin is due to come into this world on July 15.

“I can’t wait!” Cozad said, rubbing her stomach. Assistant coach Randy Brookes and her husband handle the pregame infield and outfield chores, allowing Cozad a brief respite. She did have one special request before Monday’s game, though, thanks to Mother Nature’s pregame 40-something-degree temperatures. “She called me when I was on my way here and asked me to stop at Steve and Barry’s and pick up another sweatshirt for her,” Kyle said with a laugh.

Fast feet Geneva’s Erin Zehe (pronounced Zay) had both cold feet and hot feet on Monday at Edgewood. With teammate Meagan Brookes batting in the top of the second, Brookes hit one of numerous foul balls that ended up in the swamp behind the first-base dugout during the course of the game. Zehe, a sophomore who usually sees time on the Geneva junior-varsity squad, dutifully went to retrieve the ball. And paid for it.

“Ewww, my foot’s soaked!” she said as she tried to shake the moisture off her right foot. In the fifth, Zehe put her feet to much better use. Serving as a courtesy runner for Brookes, with Colette Scharf at the plate, she promptly recorded a straight steal of second, just beating the tag of Warrior shortstop Katie McMellen.

Trivia time Which four Ashtabula County schools have reached the regional-championship level in a season? Answer, below. Faces in the crowd I With his Falcons’ game against Harvey being postponed until Wednesday, Jefferson coach Paul Bodnar didn’t rest, scouting the Geneva-Edgewood affair. Lakeside coach Kerri Weir, whose Dragons were off on Monday, also took in the contest. A brave Eagle While almost every person in attendance at Monday’s game at Edgewood was bundled up, only one player on either side was brave enough to wear shorts — Brookes, the Eagles’ pitcher. “I just can’t pitch in pants,” the senior said. “If I do, it makes my knee swell up.” Brookes wears a brace on her left knee.

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She tore the ACL in the knee during basketball season as a sophomore. “It’s not so bad,” Brookes said through a smile of the cold. “I’m kind of used to it.” Walking wounded Two Edgewood players played on Monday in some pain. Senior third baseman Sam Kalil was back at her usual post after suffering a dislocated pinkie while sliding during the Warriors’ 6-5, eight-inning win against Hillsdale at the prestigious East of Chicago Ashland Invitational, scheduled to be played at Ashland’s Brookside Park on Saturday, but actually played at Clear Fork. Junior second baseman Kasi Mercilliott was limited to DH duties because she separated her right shoulder in a scrimmage at Riverside last Tuesday. “I’m hoping to be able to get back out in the field next week,” she said.

“I hate not being able to play in the field. “It still bothers me when I release the ball while throwing. I can’t wait to get back out there.” Positive outlook Though success hasn’t come easily to the Grand Valley Mustangs in coach Krystal Henson’s one-plus seasons at the helm, it certainly hasn’t affected the Mustangs’ demeanor on the field. And that includes the coaching staff. During last Thursday’s 10-0 loss to Jefferson at the JAGS Complex, Henson, assistant coach Tracey Nelson and the GV players kept their heads up, despite cold temperatures, a steady wind and a deficit on the scoreboard. In addition to Henson keeping up a steady stream of instructional/encouraging chatter to her players throughout the contest, the Mustangs found ways to, well, have a ball.

When catcher Brittany Satterfield got her feet tangled up in pursuit of a foul popup off the bat of Jefferson’s Brittany Metnzer in the bottom of the third and took a headfirst tumble to the dirt, Henson and Nelson both had some fun with the junior. To her credit, Satterfield, who nearly caught the popup despite the fall, managed a smile after being called out by her coaches.

“How could you not laugh at that?” Henson said afterward. “I mean, even Brandy was laughing at herself. “It was a good effort.

She just got her shinguards caught on one another.” Before Jefferson slugger Courtney Francis stepped into the batter’s box in the bottom of the sixth after doubling deep to left in both the first and fifth innings, Henson wanted to make sure left fielder Lauren Zingale was in the proper spot to defend against Francis. “Lauren, give her five steps back!” Henson barked to the senior. Which prompted junior pitcher Chelsea Hanck to not miss a chance to get a dig in on her young coach. “Gee, thanks a lot, Coach!” Hanck said. Of course, Hanck was smiling when she said it.

And despite the defensive alignment, Francis still managed to sock her third double of the game over Zingale’s head, driving in her younger sister, Hannah. “We’re playing the game the right way, now,” Henson said. “There’s no reason we still can’t have fun, though. It is still a game.” Ed’s up! In the same game, homeplate umpire Ed Spencer even got into the act.

In the bottom of the second with Courtney Francis up and Misty Hussing on third for the Falcons, Francis hit a long shot to left. As Hussing headed for home and Spencer hustled up the third-base line to get the fair-foul call right, the two collided. “Don’t worry,” Spencer told Hussing with a smile after calling the blast foul. “If I’m in your way, just bounce off me.” Spencer worked the game with Al Sedivec manning the bases. Match game The Harvey Red Raiders won a grand total of two games last season, finishing the campaign with a 2-20 mark. It took coach Mike Scullin’s 2008 squad about one week to match that victory total from a year ago, recording victories against Andrews and Orange.

“We’ve won two games,” Scullin said. “We’re still young and we haven’t been consistent yet. We make strides one day and then we come out and make some mistakes.

I hope we can continue to improve. “They talked about it. They felt good about beating Orange to reach last year’s output. “We’ve been pitching better (than last season),” Scullin added. “Sam Krueger has been pitching a lot better and Melissa Mohner, a sophomore, is coming around. We’ve been splitting the pitching duties a little bit and that’s allowed Sam to rest. We’ve also had some timely hitting.

Sam and Shannon Cruz have really been hitting the ball pretty well.” Faces in the crowd II Former Jefferson boys basketball coach Bob Ashba took in a few moments of the GV-Jefferson game last week. “My granddaughter has practice with her JAGS team over on the other field,” Ashba, donning a Browns ballcap and coat, said. Ashba was the Falcon boys coach from 1966-67 through 1970-71 and came back for one season in 1981-82. He also served as JV boys coach for many years. Ledgemont varsity girls basketball coach Paul Force was also in attendance at Jefferson last Thursday. Force is the son of former Perry girls coach Ray Force.

All in the family Henson attributed much of the improvement at the plate by her Mustangs to her older sister, Kim Triskett, who was the Star Beacon Ashtabula County Player of the Year in both her junior (1989) and senior (1990) seasons for coach Cyndy Thomas’ Mustangs. “Kim has come in and thrown BP for us,” she said of Kim, who went on to pitch on scholarship at Youngstown State University after graduating from GV. “Facing live pitching from someone like her has really helped us in terms of getting the bat on the ball.” Bat girl In the aforementioned game against Grand Valley, not only did Courtney Francis hit three doubles in the game, she also hit 13 foul balls down the third-base line, most of them screamers. Several of the shots had Falcons coach Paul Bodnar diving out of the way.

Finally, by the time Francis came to bat for the third time in the fifth inning, Bodnar was standing all the way next to the fence. “Courtney Francis is amazing,” Bodnar said. “Just amazing. Last year, she couldn’t sniff (Hanck). She just generates so much bat speed. “She smoked every pitch that she hit.” Which prompted Henson’s above-mentioned instructions to Zingale, her left fielder. “You can tell (Francis) is going to be playing at the college level,” she said.

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“She was right on every pitch she saw.” Trivia answer Grand Valley, Jefferson, Conneaut and Edgewood are the four Ashtabula County teams to reach the Elite Eight. Stat attack Coaches are reminded we will begin taking season individual and team statistics on Monday, April 21 and every Monday through the season until the final area team has played its last game of the season. For batting, we want batting average, at-bats, runs, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, RBI and stolen bases. For pitching, we want earned run average, wins, losses, saves, innings pitched, hits allowed, earned runs, strikeouts and walks.

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For catchers, we want runners caught stealing and stolen bases allowed. Team stat wise, we want the same categories for batting and pitching. Teams that do not report statistics will be listed under the dreaded heading of “not reporting.” Stats and Insider information can reported on Mondays via fax at 998-7938, email at or telephone at 998-2323, extensions 244, 288, 268 or 247. While phone info will be accepted on Mondays, information can be faxed or emailed anytime over the course of the weekend.