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Wednesday, 02 June 2010
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In late April, Galesburg High School baseball coach Arnie Gonzalez was hoping his team would survive the Western Big 6 season without falling completely apart.Seniors Mark Zhorne, Derek Schwab and ...
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 At this point of the baseball season, execution and fundamentals are critical.The Rockridge baseball team encountered that realization on Wednesday.Five errors and missed opportunities on offense plag... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
No. 14-seeded Bartlett entered Wednesday’s regional semifinal with only 11 wins under its belt. Judging by the way the Hawks swung the bats against regional host Willowbrook, that total is hard to... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Andrew coach Dave DeHaan stressed to his team to get off to a good start Wednesday against Marian Catholic.
His players obliged, scoring 11 runs over the first two innings in registering a 15-8 vi... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Lightning in the area delayed the start of Wednesday's Class 4A Stevenson Regional semifinal for more than an hour.
The game's first at-bat in Lincolnshire also was lengthy. Deerfield junior short... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 Statistically, the 2010 version of the Oswego Panthers baseball program is the best the school has ever seen. Heading into Wednesday night's Oswego Regional semifinal against Yorkville, the Panthers w... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Matt Risdon was a little nervous about how the Mustangs would come out after an hour and 15-minute lightning delay.
Then he made certain it wouldn't be an issue.
After a leadoff walk by Charlie ... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 With a trip to Dodger Stadium at stake, no one could blame the baseball players from Woodland Hills El Camino Real and San Pedro for engaging in all-out celebratory dogpiles Wednesday afternoon after ... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 With lightning flashing and thunder rumbling all around Veteran's Park, Wednesday's Class 3A LaSalle Regional baseball-opener appeared headed for an early, rain-soaked ending in favor of top-seeded Ro... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Rockford Lutheran closed the door on Pecatonica/Durand’s dream season Wednesday in the semifinals of the Class 2A Morrison Sectional. After falling behind 5-2 in the bottom of the third, the Crusa... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Stevenson 10, Deerfield 0: Kyle Ruchin struck out 12 in a five-inning complete game while Pat Wilson was 2-for-3 with a homer and two RBI for No. 3 Stevenson.
Plainfield North 10, Plainfield Centra... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
The Annawan-Wethersfield Titans are a young baseball team that has seen some ups and downs this season. Interestingly, so is Downs Tri-Valley, the Titans’ opponents in tonight’s Class 1A Bloom... |
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Friday, 14 May 2010 It seems a long time ago that the Prophetstown-Erie baseball co-op was struggling, opening the 2010 prep season with a 2-7 record.From that slow start, the Panthers have been one of the hottest teams ... |
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Friday, 14 May 2010 St. Ignatius 18, Bishop McNamara 2: Justin Meier finished 2-for-2 with a two-run homer and four RBI to power the Wolfpack (16-11). Bill Boyle also had a strong day offensively, going 2-for-2 with a d... |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 The Gallatin County High School boys baseball team earned its 18 th win on Thursday, defeating Hardin County 11-1 in a five-inning affair.Drake Russell evened his record at 3-3 with a complete game in... |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 The Pope County High School baseball team rallied behind Kendall Faughn’s mound presence and a nine-hit day at the plate to defeat Shawnee 5-3.Faughn scattered six hits over six strong inning, while... |
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 Thursday, 13 May 2010 In the mind of Marion baseball coach Marty Manfredo, the phrase "moral victory" doesn't make a lot of sense or carry much weight. It was especially useless Wednesday after the Wildcats'... |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 Johnston City's baseball team scored seven runs in the sixth inning to rally back from a six-run deficit, but Waltonville-Sesser-Valier pushed three runs across in the seventh to take away a 9-7 victo... |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 The cold weather and biting wind couldn't stop the Prospect bats Wednesday afternoon in Buffalo Grove.The Knights continued their hot hitting by banging out 11 hits and 3 home runs in a 10-1 Mid-Subur... |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 Wednesday's summaries*Somonauk 1, Aurora Christian 0Aurora Christian 000 000 0 -0-3-2Somonauk 000 000 1 -1-3-02B: AC: Chamberlain. S: Kartheiser.WP: Kartheiser; LP: Minta (4-3).*DeKalb 4, Geneva 3Gene... |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 Once again the St. Charles North baseball team has kept itself in the Upstate Eight Conference lead by cooling down a team that had previously been on a roll.Two weeks ago St. Charles North started a ... |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 South Elgin scored twice in the top of the eighth inning to knock off host Streamwood 5-3 in Upstate Eight Conference action Wednesday.Junior Kenny Lowden (4-2) pitched all 8 innings for the Storm, wh... |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 Waubonsie Valley 5, Bartlett 1: Kris Singh (3-2) fired a 4-hitter with 12 strikeouts and a walk as the Warriors (18-8, 14-4) won in the Upstate Eight Conference. Eric Josupait went 3-for-4 with a run... |
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 Palatine didn't want any part of hosting a cross-town celebration Wednesday.So the Pirates went out and executed every part of the game as Byron Skinner threw a 4-hitter in a 6-0 victory that kept Fre... |
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 Wednesday, 12 May 2010 Kolton King supplied the power and Brok Webb shut down Carbondale's bats as Marion knocked off Carbondale, 5-3, in a South Seven Conference baseball game Tuesday at the Crisp Sports Com... |
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 Burlington Central 4, Harvard 1: Burlington Central was powered by Nick Hahn (9-0), who struck out five and allowed five hits in a complete game.Lisle 13, Plano 2: Lisle (20-9, 7-4 Interstate Eight)... |
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 At 6-14, the season hasn’t gone according to plan for Tinley Park.The lack of success mostly can be attributed to a less than reliable defense.There have been some bright spots for the Titans, howev... |
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 Jake Butler threw five innings of one-hit ball, striking out eight batters as the Pope County High School boys baseball team shutout Thompsonville 12-0.Kendell Faughn went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubl... |
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 The Gallatin County High School boys baseball team only mustered up two hits in an 11-2 defeat as it hosted Union County (Ky.) on Monday.Brody Lowery and Wes McGuire were the only two Hawks to scratch... |
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 Massac County's baseball team rolled to a 10-1 win over Johnston City in a non-conference game Monday.Sean Dobbins singled and scored Johnston City's lone run on a double steal in the top of the first... |
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 Tuesday, 11 May 2010 Alex Stout did his part on the mound and at the plate to lead Goreville to a 16-4 romp over Crab Orchard in a non-conference prep baseball game Monday.Stout hit a three-run home run, dr... |
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010
The Jacksonville Routt High School Rockets came out swinging Tuesday afternoon at Claude Kracik Field in the Class 1A Lincoln Land Supersectional, but then along came Cody Zurliene.Zurliene, a soph... |
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010
Tuesday's summaries
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Class 2A Lisle supersectional at Benedictine University
Immaculate Conception 5, Herscher 4
Herscher 021 100 000 0-4-6-2
IC 004 000 000 1-5-5-3
2B: IC: Nutley, Rodriguez
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 Eight walks allowed and only three batters struck out. Plus four errors. Is this any way to upset a team that had knocked off perennial power Rock Falls, and then won its sectional semifinal 18-0 over... |
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 Saturday, 29 May 2010 For the second regional game in a row, Galesburg High School baseball coach Arnie Gonzalez rolled the dice in the bottom of the seventh inning and for the second straight game, the Silv... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 For the third time in less than two weeks, Maine South got the better of Niles West.This time, the result mattered most to the Hawks. The 5-1 win Saturday earned the CSL South champions the Leyden Reg... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 Derek Jordan diagnosed his hitting problem just in the nick of time, connecting on an RBI-single in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday to bring Carmel back from an 8-4 deficit to an incredible ... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 In his first season with the Lions, Robert Romano isn't even sure how the whole playoff thing works.But even the junior right-hander realized he'd done something special when he helped St. Viator (18-... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 Sean Bieterman won at Driscoll, and now, in his first year as head coach at Lincoln-Way Central, he’s already taken the program to heights it hasn’t reached in years.On Saturday, Bieterman’s Kni... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 4A RegionalsNaperville North 7, Providence 6: In a battle between top-10 teams, Jack Krejci drove in the game-winning run for the No. 9 Huskies (30-7), and Paul Bloodgood had three RBI.Andrew 7, Eise... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 Immaculate Conception’s Kevin Nutley pitched and batted the Knights to a 7-2 win over the Harvard Hornets in Saturday's Class 2A Benedictine University Baseball Sectional final. Nutley (6-2) went th... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 Lethal hitting — and the powerful right arm of Tyler Radtke — added up to an 11-0 victory for Stevenson on Saturday.The Patriots (31-3) captured an IHSA Class 4A Stevenson Regional title with a r... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 Nick Duke pitched a four-hitter and went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI to help Jacksonville Routt Catholic High School beat Hartsburg-Emden 6-2 Friday in the semifinals of the Class 1A Routt Sectio... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 Class 4A regional finalsAt Lake ZurichGLENBROOK NORTH 11, LAKE ZURICH 5Lake Zurich 111 010 1 -5-7-5Glenbrook N. 401 105 X -11-11-02B: LZ: Sanders, Asmann; GBN: Rushing, Hurst, Synek.3B: LZ: Bavester, ... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 Pitching and defense are the hallmarks of winning baseball.McHenry’s Pat Murphy showed off the pitching portion of that equation Friday in an IHSA Class 4A Cary-Grove Regional semifinal, striking ... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 During introductions Friday at Lake Zurich, the electricity went out.Fate, it seemed, as the Bears couldn't generate their own spark to contain Glenbrook North.The Spartans won the Class 4A regional s... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 When Streamwood's Sabres finally got the first-round postseason baseball monkey off their backs Friday, it might have been more a case of having it removed than removing it.Schaumburg would say the um... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 Crystal Lake South's Billy Wright nearly had a home run robbed in the first inning Friday.There was little doubt about his second home run - a walk off grand slam - as the Jacobs outfielders barely mo... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 The Lena-Winslow baseball team has some history with Westminster Christian.A chance at redemption, at the very least from a program standpoint, comes today at 11 a.m. as the Panthers try to defeat the... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 An errant throw after a dropped third strike ended Schaumburg's season on Friday as the Saxons fell 5-4 to Streamwood in the Class 4A Dundee Crown regional semifinal.With two outs in the bottom of the... |
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Friday, 28 May 2010 After beating Carbondale twice during the South Seven Conference season, the Marion Wildcats baseball team figured to have a good draw in the first round of the Class 3A Salem Regional.But after drivi... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
From this point forward, it's all unfamiliar territory for the baseball teams from Marissa and Lebanon.
Both clubs from the Kaskaskia Division of the Cahokia Conference begin play in different se... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
O'Fallon was awarded a 7-0 forfeit victory at the Class 4A Belleville West Regional when East St. Louis could not field enough players to compete.
The win moves the Panthers (22-12) into the regi... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
CLASS 4A
AT LIBERTYVILLE
Carmel 7, Buffalo Grove 4
Buffalo Grove 100 003 0 -4-8-1
Carmel 004 300 x -7-9-0
2B: Carmel: DiVarco, Pudlo; HR: Carmel: May, DiVarco.
WP:Huisel LP: Sanders.
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AT MU... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Alleman High School baseball coach Scott Harding describes Jacob Sharp's work ethic as "second to none.""He is the hardest worker that we have in our program without a doubt,"said Harding of his jun... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
For a short period of time in the Moline-United Township opening round Class 4A regional baseball game at Moline's Holmgren Field on Wednesday afternoon, it seemed as if the fourth-seeded ... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 Harvard’s baseball team hopes this is the appetizer.
The coaches told the Hornets to “stay hungry” late Wednesday after the Hornets had feasted on Chicago Latin.
Harvard got another strong pi... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Grayslake Central's baseball team scored 18 runs in the first two innings to defeat Grayslake North 18-0 in Class 3A regional play, extending its winning streak to eight games.
The host Rams struck... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 Naperville Central 4, Benet 3: After the Redhawks (31-4) tied the game at 2-2 with an unearned run in the bottom of the fifth, Ryan Walsh smacked a 2-run double in the sixth inning to lead Naperville ... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Jose Godinez thrives in big-game situations.
They come no bigger than what he faced Wednesday.
Down to the team's final strike in the top of the seventh inning, the Immaculate Conception junior bl... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
The Midland Timberwolves wasted little time in grabbing a lead and cruising to a 13-2 win over North Fulton in five innings in the semifinals of the Class 1A Bloomington Sectional.
“They came out... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 In control all the way.
That's exactly what the Minooka baseball team and ace pitcher Mike Foltynewicz were on Wednesday.
Foltynewicz, a senior right-hander, threw a 3-hit shutout, struck out 15 ... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Tyler Dray’s plan was to trust his defense Wednesday. But he didn’t need to, striking out 12 in a five-inning 12-0 rout of Guilford in the semifinals of the Class 4A Harlem baseball regional.“... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Rain and lightning delays along with a venue change couldn’t stop Lena-Winslow from crushing the ball and earning a school record 29th win on Wednesday.The Panthers (29-9) defeated Fulton (8-16) i... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Carmel Catholic starting pitcher Jonathan Huisel usually doesn't throw a lot of strikeouts, relying instead on his team's defense behind him to make the plays.
That plan was evident as he pitched f... |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Lightning struck at least three times Wednesday afternoon at the Mundelein baseball field.
The first two strikes delayed the start of a Class 4A regional semifinal between Palatine and the host Mus... |
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