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Published July 19, 2008 01:44 am - The girls on the Ashtabula Junior Softball All Stars are used to winning. Ashtabula looking for elusive title ADAM RAEDER Star Beacon The girls on the Ashtabula Junior Softball All Stars are used to winning.
Most of them have played together over the last five years, taking one district title after another. But now they’ve got their sights set on the one that’s gotten away. “It’s time to get the state championship,” manager Brian Elliott said. They’ll start their title bid at 11 a.m. today when they take on the District 2, the Youngstown area, champion at Cederquist Park in Ashtabula. “These girls have been there before and know what it takes,” Elliott said. And just what will it take for Ashtabula to succeed when the pressure is on? “The keys are to get on base, to put our hits together and our pitching to hold up,” Elliott said. “With Little League rules, there are only so many innings you can pitch. We’ve got to go deep into the pitching rotation.” Specifically, a pitcher can’t throw one pitch over four innings in one game if she wants to pitch in another game that day. That means Ashtabula will have to go deep into its rotation, which consists of Kara Norman, Megan Richey, Gabriella Patete and Katie Stillman. Norman stands as the ace of the group, and will likely shoulder the majority of the workload. “She throws with speed with a good fastball and a real good riseball,” Elliott said. Richey boasts a strong array of offspeed pitches and enters the tournament in the No. 2 spot in the rotation. And Elliott said he’s confident in Patete and Stillman should they have to step into the circle. “They’ve played a lot of travel ball together,” Elliott said. “We got to practice over the winter and we got a lot of innings in in travel ball season.” 
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