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Effingham High School softball award winners are, left to right, Maci Hayes (sportsmanship), Olivia Koester (Rookie of the Year), Ryley Engel (Gold Glove), Natalie Armstrong (Pitcher of the Year, Best Hitter, Player of the Year and All Apollo Pitcher), Gieah Schlanser (First Team, All-Apollo) and Keagyn Koenig (First Team All-Apollo).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Effingham High School softball award winners are, left to right, Maci Hayes (sportsmanship), Olivia Koester (Rookie of the Year), Ryley Engel (Gold Glove), Natalie Armstrong (Pitcher of the Year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-softball"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEffingham High School Softball Award Winners - Effingham's News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/softball\/39165-effingham-high-school-softball-award-winners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Effingham High School Softball Award Winners - 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