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Friday, 26 February 2010
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Steve DeMatties started playing baseball when he was young. Later, he became a catcher for Ithaca College in upstate New York and eventually moved on to the major leagues, playing for the Mets in the ...
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 Mark Payton doesn't want to have any regrets when St. Rita's summer baseball season ends.
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 Outstanding Colt League baseball for 15-16 year-olds has been a staple in the Joliet area, seemingly forever.
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 After playing two state tournament baseball games in five hours Tuesday, Downers Grove South coach Darren Orel admitted his team "was a little gassed."
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 Regardless of Tuesday's exhaustion, count on this. Waubonsie Valley's baseball team still has plenty left in the tank. A long day ended with good news for the Warriors, who beat Oak Park 7-1 to stave ... |
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Monday, 27 July 2009 Brant Valach's two-run single in the bottom of the sixth inning rallied Sandburg to a 5-4 win over Waubonsie Valley Tuesday in the IHSBCA Phil Lawler Summer Classic, sending the Eagles to Wednesday's ... |
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Monday, 27 July 2009 Scores and highlights from Day 2 of the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association's Phil Lawler Summer Classic.
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Monday, 27 July 2009 Mark Payton picked up his third save in four games and Stefano Belmonte drove in two runs to pace St. Rita to a 4-2 win over Downers Grove South Tuesday. St. Rita advances to Wednesday's semifinals of... |
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 Lost amid a controversial play in the fifth inning of St Rita's opener in Monday's Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association Lawler Summer Classic playoffs was another impressive win for the M... |
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 This was a turnabout Downers Grove South could get behind. The Mustangs rallied for a 6-5 win over Carmel on Monday at Benedictine University to advance into the winners' bracket of Elite Eight pool p... |
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 A loss to St. Rita, a baseball coach can accept. It's a play during the fifth inning of Monday's game at Benedictine University that Warren coach Clint Smothers found unacceptable.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 Harry Vickers wasn't thinking home run as he stepped to the plate in the top of the seventh inning, but there was plenty of time to think about it as he rounded the bases.
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 St. Rita knocked off Warren 7-3 Monday in the first round of the IHSBCA Phil Lawler Summer Classic. But a controversial play in the fifth inning overshadowed the heroics of players like Shane Conlon, ... |
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Monday, 27 July 2009 Cruel and unusual punishment. That might be the best way to describe Sunday's double-dip in Benton for the Carmi Pony League (13-14-year-old) baseball team. Following a 3-2 win over Quincy Friday ev... |
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 Downers Grove South scored a walk-off win over Carmel Monday in first-round action at the IHSBCA Phil Lawler Summer Classic. Also advancing were Waubonsie Valley and Sandburg.
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 St. Rita's Shane Conlon and Oak Forest's Tim Barry led the way as Top Tier captured the Continental Amateur Baseball Association 17-and-under World Series championship on Saturday in Euclid, Ohio.
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Monday, 27 July 2009 Many travel baseball programs likely would cherish the day high school teams wave the white flag and abandon the summer league season. Such a surrender would allow travel programs the services of play... |
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Monday, 27 July 2009 Many travel baseball programs likely would cherish the day high school teams wave the white flag and abandon the summer league season.
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 After beating Quincy 3-2 Friday night, the Carmi Pony League (13-14-year-old) baseball team will play at 8 this evening (Saturday) in the "driver's seat" game of the Benton region tournament. The wi... |
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 Sean Smith pitched a seven-hitter with seven strikeouts to lead Waubonsie Valley past St. Charles North 9-3 Thursday in an IHSBCA summer regional final at St. Charles East.
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 Host Carmel rolled by Crystal Lake South 8-2 and Lakes knocked off Grayslake Central 12-2 on Thursday to advance to an IHSBCA regional final.
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 Sandburg rallied from a three-run deficit in the fifth inning to beat Lincoln-Way East 10-7 on Thursday in the IHSBCA Joliet Regional final.
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 Cleanup hitter Stefano Belmonte drove in four runs as St. Rita cruised to a 15-1 win over host Richards Thursday in an IHSBCA summer regional final.
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Thursday, 23 July 2009 After three uneventful trips to the plate, Benet catcher Matt Dorsett had everything on the line in the top of the seventh inning.
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Thursday, 23 July 2009 Waubonsie Valley's baseball team had to love the change in the weather. Not the switch from sunny and hot to cold and rainy. Rather, the change from cold bats to hot.
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 Leadoff hitter Dan Kenealy hit a three-run homer to help power host Richards past Oak Forest 13-3 Wednesday in an IHSBCA summer regional semifinal. The Bulldogs will meet St. Rita in Thursday's title ... |
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 Mark Payton was dominant in a rare pitching appearance and hit one of three St. Rita home runs as the Mustangs beat rival Mount Carmel 6-2 on Wednesday in the IHSBCA Richards Regional semifinals.
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 Wednesday, 22 July 2009 The Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association is proud to announce that the IHSBCA Summer State Tournament will now be known as the Phil Lawler Summer Classic. On July 30, 2009, before the S... |
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 Prospect has not needed much offense in its first two Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association regional games.
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 The voices of experience spoke loud and clear for Naperville Central's baseball team. Keyed by returning starters from the spring's sectional title squad, the Redhawks rallied for Tuesday's 11-7 victo... |
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 It wasn't Kris Singh's power pitching that shut down Geneva on Tuesday in the quarterfinals of the St. Charles East regional in the IHSBCA summer state tournament.
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 Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Summer league baseball and softball signups will continue through the end of the week, and a final late registration date is set for Feb. 27.
Chris Head, Benton Area Team Spo... |
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Monday, 10 August 2009 The Edwardsville Azules baseball team put the finishing touches on a stellar inaugural season in the North County League on a muggy Sunday evening at Forestwood Park in Ferguson, Mo., winning a league... |
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Monday, 10 August 2009 Despite the scorching temperature during the second day of the Junior League Baseball Central Regional Tournament, it took a while for Freeport’s bats to warm up.
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Saturday, 08 August 2009 There was a good news, bad news script to the Alton Indians' game Friday in the National Amateur Baseball Federation College World Series at Toledo, Ohio. The Indians suffered a 17-6 setback to the Di... |
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 Saturday, 08 August 2009 For a couple brief seconds as the driving rain continued to fall during the send-off ceremony for the Freeport Junior League team on Friday, warning sirens blared.
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Friday, 07 August 2009 The Edwardsville Azules, sponsored by Inland Design, just keep rolling through the field in their inaugural season playing North County League baseball.
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Friday, 07 August 2009 Unity CDC Development Corp. stepped to the plate and belted one out of the park. Willie Wright's dream began to take shape. "I had been trying for three years to get this started," Wright said as he... |
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Friday, 07 August 2009 Newcomer Zach Malewey gave the Alton Indians a strong start in the National Amateur Baseball Federation (NABF) World Series on Thursday in Toledo, Ohio.The right-hander spun a three-hitter and struck ... |
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 Thursday, 06 August 2009 Flora Post 14 made history this past weekend when they were crowned the 5th Division Junior American Legion Baseball Champions. Post 14 hosted the tournament at Mike Jennings Field ... |
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 With a string of late-game heroics, the Long Grove A's won the 18-under CABA World Series last weekend in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 Harrisburg High School senior Reid Roper stepped on a baseball diamond littered with talent that has committed to baseball powerhouses throughout the country and proved he could do more than hold his ... |
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 Intelligencer Sports Staff The Edwardsville/Inland Design baseball club continued its stroll through the playoffs of the North County Baseball League on Sunday.
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 When the Alton Indians of the St. Louis Metro Collegiate League went deep into the baseball season last summer, it's what they anticipated. They knew they were good. Now, the Indians are back at the N... |
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Monday, 03 August 2009 ROBINSON — After suffering its first tournament loss Sunday to Youngstown, Ohio, Mattoon is to play again today in the Babe Ruth Baseball 14-year-olds Ohio Valley Regional.
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Monday, 03 August 2009 Nate Vandercar, playing for Northern Illinois champion Westmont, is the son of a Mattoon native who, when attending school at Mattoon, was Leicia Gillespie. She married Decatur native Matt Vandercar, ... |
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Monday, 03 August 2009 MATTOON — Effingham still has its Babe Ruth baseball Southern Illinois championship.
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Sunday, 02 August 2009 MATTOON – Effingham still has its Babe Ruth baseball Southern Illinois championship.
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Sunday, 02 August 2009 MATTOON – Effingham still has its Babe Ruth baseball Southern Illinois championship.
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Sunday, 02 August 2009 Mattoon has a win and gets to play again in the Babe Ruth baseball Ohio Valley Regional for 15-year-olds.
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 MATTOON - Scott Fox pitched a five-inning no-hitter as Elkins, W. Va., beat Meade County, Ky., 12-0 Saturday afternoon in the Babe Ruth baseball Ohio Valley Regional for 15-year-olds
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 Mike Grindstaff and Matt Wolz were the two biggest boppers for the Ingalls Park Colt League baseball team on the final day of pool play in the Colt Zone Tournament (15-16 year-olds).
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 Palatine and Belleville switched from a pitchers' duel to a slugfest midway through their American Legion baseball state tournament winner's bracket game Friday at Rec Park in Arlington Heights.Read F... |
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 ROBINSON -- A.J. Nichols came home on a wild pitch in the eighth inning as Mattoon’s 14-year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars beat the Wisconsin state champion Madison 5-4 in the first round of their Ohio V... |
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 MATTOON – Devin Nickelson had doubles and a single and then pitched a scoreless seventh inning to close a 4-3 win for New Castle, Ind., over Mattoon in the first round of the Babe Ruth baseball Ohio... |
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Friday, 31 July 2009 Illinois District 15's state champions fell to 0-2 in pool play at the Big League World Series with a 5-1 loss to Ruston, La., on Thursday in Easley, S.C.
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 The pitching of Shane Conlon and the hitting of tournament MVP Mark Payton helped St. Rita shut out Sandburg 9-0 Thursday night in the title game of the IHSBCA Phil Lawler Summer Classic at Benedictin... |
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Friday, 31 July 2009 ARLINGTON - Belleville defeated Rock Island 13-3 Thursday sending Rock Island into Friday’s 11 a.m. elimination game against Mattoon Post 88 in the American Legion baseball state tournament.Read Ful... |
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 With kids from Windsor, Beecher City, Neoga, Altamont, Cumberland, how good could a Stew-Stras Junior Legion baseball team be? How ‘bout 42-11 and playing at the state tournament this weekend. Prett... |
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 St. Rita and Sandburg high schools will meet tonight in the championship game of the summer baseball Phil Lawler Classic. The game will be a rematch of the Class 4A Crestwood Supersectional final in J... |
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 Four outs shy of the state title game of the IHSBCA Phil Lawler Summer Classic, Waubonsie Valley's baseball team couldn't finish the dream.
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 It wasn't only Sandburg's power-hitting capability. Or its eagerness for small-ball. Or timely defense or Joe Greenfield's fastball.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 St. Rita rallied late for the second game in a row on Wednesday, edging Waubonsie Valley 6-5 to advance to the title game of the IHSBCA Phil Lawler Summer Classic.
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 Thursday, 30 July 2009 In a sport that’s always been described as a kids’ game, the Illinois State Junior Baseball Tournament championship went to the kids from Freeport. With a strong, balanced offe... |
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 Sandburg used an 11-hit attack and the complete-game pitching of Joe Greenfield to roll past Downers Grove South 12-2 Wednesday in the semifinals of the IHSBCA Phil Lawler Summer Classic at North Cent... |
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 Local high school baseball players who were competing against each other last month for a state championship now are competing with each other to win a world championship.
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