{"id":7106,"date":"2010-06-05T00:36:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T07:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2010-06-05T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T22:55:27","slug":"heralds-get-back-to-back-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=7106","title":{"rendered":"Heralds Get Back-to-Back Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Division V Champions. Photo by Craig Westerbeek<\/p><\/div>\n

(Irvine) \u2013 Courtney McGee\u2019s dominance in the postseason was punctuated in style with a one-hit shut-out to give Whittier Christian back-to-back Division V Championships with a 4-0 win over South Hills.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is like Harmony,\u201d said Heralds head coach Dale Van Duyn.\u00a0 \u201cThis team played together.\u00a0 We came out with five seniors and some freshmen.\u00a0 They all came together to win this championship.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGee completed one of the most impressive postseason runs by a pitcher in recent memory, throwing 41 scoreless innings and allowing just three hits in six games for the Heralds.\u00a0 McGee also struck out 64 batters during her MVP run.<\/p>\n

The Huskies valiant playoff run met an immovable object in McGee, who settled into her own after Brittney Rodriguez singled in the first inning.\u00a0 After Rodriguez\u2019s single, only two other batters would make it on base.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew going in that the Huskies were a good batting team,\u201d said McGee.\u00a0 \u201cIt was going to be a real battle to keep them from scoring runs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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McGee was nearly flawless in Championship run. Photo by Craig Westerbeek<\/p><\/div>\n

The South Hills defense which played incredibly during the postseason was their downfall as they had four errors in the game.\u00a0 None larger than Abby Moreno\u2019s in the third inning when a routine pop fly from Amanda Perez was misplayed. Two batters later, McGee promptly hit a double to right field that scored both Perez and Richelle Coberly to open up the scoring.<\/p>\n

After scoring 54 runs in their previous five playoff games, the Huskies had no offensive answer against McGee the entire game.<\/p>\n

South Hills pitcher Sydney La Follette appeared flustered after the two run inning in the third and never appeared to get the momentum she had heading into the championship game.<\/p>\n

It showed in the fifth inning, when Kat Marten singled and La Follette lost control of a pitch that hit Perez on the helmet.\u00a0 With runners on first and second, Coberly moved over the runners on a sacrifice bunt.\u00a0 La Follette then intentionally walked McGee to load the bases.\u00a0 Beka Kikuchi took the first offering from La Follette and sharply hit a grounder to Kristen Stewart who wildly overthrew the third baseman, allowing Perez and Marten to score.<\/p>\n

McGee would then retire the last nine batters she faced to complete the historic run of Whittier Christian.\u00a0 For the Heralds it was the first time in school history they won back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n

WHITTIER CHRISTIAN\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1<\/p>\n

SOUTH HILLS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4<\/p>\n

2B:\u00a0 Courtney McGee<\/p>\n

RBIS:\u00a0 McGee 2, Bekah Kikuchi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Irvine) \u2013 Courtney McGee\u2019s dominance in the postseason was punctuated in style with a one-hit shut-out to give Whittier Christian back-to-back Division V Championships with a 4-0 win over South Hills. \u201cIt is like Harmony,\u201d said Heralds head coach Dale Van Duyn.\u00a0 \u201cThis team played together.\u00a0 We came out with five seniors and some freshmen.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3134,3132,3131,3103,3102,3133,3135,3136,2360],"class_list":["post-7106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-abby-moreno","tag-amanda-perez","tag-bekah-kikuchi","tag-britney-rodriguez","tag-courtney-mcgee","tag-kat-marten","tag-kristen-stewart","tag-richelle-coberly","tag-sydney-la-follette"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7109,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions\/7109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}