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Madison's Nicole Iannarone. Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Chatham's Amanda Fazio. Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Chatham's Elke Luria slides into second. Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Madison players congratulate teammate Nicole Iannarone after what many thought was a home run. The home-plate umpire later ruled it was a ground-rule double. Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Chatham pitcher Amanda Fazio. Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Madison right fielder Catherine Zimmerman with the catch. Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Chatham's Kendall Davies. Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Madison right fielder Catherine Zimmerman. Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
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Chatham's Christine Cremoni slides safely into third. Chatham shutout Madison, 8-0, in softball action on Thursday at Madison. Cougars senior pitcher Amanda Fazio fired a two hitter and struck out 14 in the battle of the neighborhood rivals. Chatham senior first baseman Kelly Winans led the team offensively with three RBI. Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone broke up Fazio’s no-hit bid with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. Credits: Edward Kensik
Chatham Cougars, Fazio Stymie Madison Dodgers in Softball Showdown
Friday, April 20, 2012 • 6:16am
MADISON, NJ - Chatham senior pitcher Amanda Fazio does not care if she ever collects a no hitter or a perfect game.
For this fireballer, just give her a Morris County title and a state group title and she will be happy.
Thursday's game was not for a county or state title, but Fazio was happy to get the 8-0 victory at rival Madison. "It doesn't matter to me," said Fazio. "It's not about no hitters or perfect games. I just wanted to win the game."
Unfortunately for Madison, the Cougars were not happy campers after losing their first game of the year, a 1-0 heartbreaker to Morris Hills. "Coming off the loss earlier in the week, we were just looking to hit the ball," said Fazio.
She would go a complete game, seven innings, and allow two hits while striking out 14 Dodger batters to get the win. “We really were just throwing a fast ball off the plate and a changeup,” said the senior pitcher whose heat was just too much for the young Madison hitters.
The Cougars raised its record to 9-1 on the season while Madison dropped to 5-4. The two teams could play on Tuesday in Chatham in the Morris County Tournament. Madison is the 16th seed in the MCT and hosts 17th-seeded Morris Tech on Friday in the preliminary round of the Morris County Tournament. A Dodgers win on Friday would set-up another game with top-seeded Chatham. The two teams will also face each other on May 9 at Shunpike Field in Chatham as part of a night-time Madison-Chatham baseball-softball night.
And on Thursday it was Madison senior centerfielder Nicole Iannarone who broke open the perfect game and the no hitter with a ground-rule double in the bottom of the seventh inning.
In that inning Madison would load the bases, but Fazio's stuff was just too much for the Dodgers as she got the next three Madison batters to strike out and end the game.
For a young Madison team they were happy to keep what is the number one seeded team in Morris County, Chatham, scoreless for the first three innings. "We definitely have progressed since the beginning of the season," said Iannarone, one of the few seniors on a Madison team that is filled with freshmen and sophomores.
And it was Lady Dodgers freshman pitcher Stephanie Deeb who kept the Cougars offense at bay in the first half of the game.
But by the top of the fourth inning the Chatham hitters were starting to figure out Deeb.
Chatham played small ball as Cougars catcher Casa Delsandro sacrificed home pinch runner Meg Pinaire from third base for a Chatham 1-0 lead.
After Fazio shut down the Madison side in the bottom of the fourth, Chatham pulled away in the top of the fifth inning with five runs. Delasandro highlighted the inning with her second RBI off a double and gave the Cougars a 6-0 lead.
Cougars senior first baseman Kelly Winans added her second and third RBI of the game in the top of the sixth inning for the 8-0 lead.
For Madison, the offense came in the bottom of the seventh inning. Iannarone led off the inning with what she and even some of the Chatham players thought were a home run over the left field fence. But the home plate umpire called the play a ground-rule double that bounced over the fence. Dodgers Catherine Zimmerman, who also played well defensively in right field, would walk and Alise Bassolino squibbed a hit into centerfield to load the bases.
But Fazio would bear down and get the next three Madison batters to strike out, end the game and preserve the shutout.
