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Hello Everyone - There were some exciting sectional games played today. My son Eric saw 24 1/2 innings of softball at two different venues and I watched a 17-inning, 1-0 game between Portage and Wisconsin Dells and a nine-inning 4-3 game between Monroe and Dodgeville. Eric was in Waterloo to begin with where he watched Horicon tip Oakfield 3-2 in 15 innings. He then watched Racine St. Catherine's nip Horicon 2-1 in 8 innings before heading to McFarland to catch the end of the 2-1 Portage win over Monroe.



I had a pitching lesson at 6 today so I had to leave McFarland in the bottom of the 17th with Portage coming to bat.



Look on The Fastpitch Chronicle website for Week 11 results to see the scores and all the extra inning games played today.



The Packerland will have two teams at Goodman Diamond as Sevastopol returns for a second straight year in Division 3 while Southern Door will be there in Division 2.



Madison LaFollette stunned that sectional by shutting out Middleton 6-0 and then beat Holmen 1-0 and earned a trip across town on Thursday.



Grantsburg shutout Prescott 4-0 then Thorp 11-0 amd will be the second Division 3 school in as many years looking to repeat as state champions. They beat Poynette in the semi-final at Madison last year.



Meanwhile - Arcadia avenged a sectional loss in 2006 to Lancaster and remained unbeaten as they knocked off #2 ranked and also unbeaten Lancaster 2-1 in extra innings. Arcadia was last at Goodman two years ago where they were beaten in the semi-final.



Verona returns for another shot at a state title from the Southeast Sectional where they nipped Kenosha Bradford 6-5.



After upsetting top ranked New London 10-0 last week Fox Valley Lutheran found itself on the short end of a 5-4 game against Oconto of the Packerland. Oconto was then beaten by fellow Packerland school Southern Door.



In Division 4, Oshkosh Lourdes snuck up on some people and tipped Assumption 10-3 to deny the Royals a third straight berth. Williams Bay snuck past Belmont 2-1 to earn its first trip to Goodman Diamond.



Here is a complete Sectional Score wrapup for you taken off my website.



Division 2 - McFarland Sectional

Portage 1, Wisconsin Dells 0 --- 17 innings

Monroe 4, Dodgeville 3 --- 9 innings

Portage 2, Monroe 1



Division 2 -Fort Atkinson Sectional

New Berlin Eisenhower 2, Wisconsin Lutheran 1

Union Grove 2, East Troy 0

Union Grove 5, New Berlin Eisenhower 3



Division 2 - Altoona Sectional

Rice Lake 7, Altoona 1

G-E-T 7, Wittenberg-Birnamwood 3

Rice Lake 7, G-E-T 4



Division 2 - Freedom Sectional

Oconto 5, Fox Valley Lutheran 4

Southern Door 6, Campbellsport 0

Southern Door 4, Oconto 0





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Division 3 - Waterloo Sectional

Racine St. Catherine's 3, Deerfield 0

Horicon 3, Oakfield 2 - 15 innings

Racine St. Catherine's 2, Horicon 1 8 innings



Division 3 - Boscobel Sectional

Lancaster 2, Aquinas 0

Arcadia 10, Stratford 0 in 5 innings

Arcadia 2, Lancaster 1 -- 9 innings



Division 3 - McDonell Central Sectional

Grantsburg 4, Prescott 0

Thorp 3, Park Falls 2

Grantsburg 11, Thorp 0 -- 5 innings



Division 3 - Pacelli Sectional

Pacelli 14, Crivitz 0

Sevastopol 1, Laconia 0

Sevatapol 8, Pacelli 1



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Division 1 - Sectional

Holmen 1 Memorial 0 11 Innings

Madison LaFollette 6 , Middleton 0

Madison LaFollette 1, Holmen 0



Division 1 - Greenfield Sectional

Greenfield 1, Pius XI 0

Racine Case 1, South Milwaukee 0

Racine Case 4, Greenfield 1



Division 1 - Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln Sectional

Kimberly 1, Hortonville 0

Oshkosh West 5, West Bend East 2

Kimberly 4, Oshkosh West 1



Germantown Sectional To Be Played Friday



Division 1 - Ashwaubenon Sectional

Pulaski 2, Ashwaubenon 1

Appleton North 2, Appleton East 1

No Final as of 9:23 on WIAA site



Division 1 - Kenosha Bradford at Parkside Sectional

Verona 12, Beloit Memorial 3

Kenosha Bradford 2, Waterford 0

Verona 6, Kenosha Bradford 5



Division 1 - Marshfield Sectional

Chippewa Falls 2, Hudson 0

Merrill 5, Wausau West 1

Chippewa Falls 3, Merrill 0 -- 12 innings



Division 1 - Arrowhead Sectional

Kettle Moraine 3, Watertown 0

Waukesha West 5, Brookfield East 1

Waukesha West 1, Kettle Moraine 0



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Division 4 - Shell Lake Sectional

Hurley 5, Elmwood 0

Eau Claire Immanuel 6, Flambeau 2

Hurley 9, Eau Claire Immanuel 2



Division 4 - Assumption Sectional

Assumption 9, Wausaukee 8

Oshkosh Lourdes 4, Tigerton 2 -- 8 innings

Oshkosh Lourdes 10, Assumption 3



Division 4 - Highland with Iowa-Grant Sectional

New Lisbon 4, Pepin 3

De Soto 6, River Ridge 1

De Soto 3, New Lisbon 1



Division 4 - Verona Area Sectional

Williams Bay 10, Princeton 0 -- 5 innings

Belmont 8, Argyle 0

Williams Bay 2, Belmont 1

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I did receive Mel Benter's pitching stats from Mayville. Mel graduated in 1999 but not until after she'd won a state title game 1-0 over Poynette and accumulated the following career stats:

Pitched in 84 games

Complete 82 games

Won 75 - lost 9

Pitched 547 innings

Had 47 shutouts

allowed 82 runs but only 8 her junior year and 8 her senior year

allowed 46 earned runs but just 4 her junior year and 2 her senior year

allowed 194 hits

walked 102 but just 9 her senior year

fanned 921 batters

allowed no home runs

hit two batters

had an ERA of 0.65 and was 0.24 her junior year and 0.10 her senior year.



Pretty impressive was she! I watched her shutout the US Olympic Team in Stevens Point in her five inning stint one summer when the Olympians took on some Wisconsin Collegiate All Stars up there. I was proud of her.



I'll be in Madison all day Thursday and Friday -- be sure to stop me and chat for a while.



Keep it Rising!

Bob