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Anna-Jonesboro over Harrisburg 5-4.

Burlington Central 2
Johnsburg 1

Nick Hahn (10-0) out dueled Jerad Grundy

Streator (18-8) 6

Yorkville 5

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Originally posted by BCRockets:
Burlington Central 2
Johnsburg 1

Nick Hahn (10-0) out dueled Jerad Grundy

With all due respect Coach, I feel a more appropriate description of the game would be that Grundy did everything he could to keep his struggling team in the game against a first place team and their number one pitcher.

To say that Grundy was "out dueled", implies that both teams are having relatively comparable seasons and that is not close to the truth.

Game 1

Streator (19-8) 9

Marmion 2

Game 2

Streator (19-8-1) 11

Marmion 11

9 innings

CPS Semifinal Game I

Whitney Young 4

Lane 2

WP - Ormond, Complete game, 5K, 0-BB, 5 Hits

Clemente defeated Taft 10-0 in the Second Semifinal Game.

Young will play Clemente Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the Public League final at U.S. Cellular Field.


http://yourseason.suntimes.com...e-semifinals.article

Batavia 12
Morris 8
Batavia goes to 26-5 -- winning 16th in a row.
Jordan Coffey started on the mound and went 4 2/3 striking out 7, allowing 1 earned run and leaving with a 3-1 lead. Morris came back against batavia relievers then the Bulldogs rallied for the win.

Coffey hit his 8th homer with two on in the fourth. Tim Drish hit a solo shot (7th) to lead off the 7th and break a 7-7 tie.
Coffey and Drish now have combined for 13 homers in the last 9 Bulldog games.

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Originally posted by RRF8:

quote:

Originally posted by BCRockets:
Burlington Central 2
Johnsburg 1

Nick Hahn (10-0) out dueled Jerad Grundy

With all due respect Coach, I feel a more appropriate description of the game would be that Grundy did everything he could to keep his struggling team in the game against a first place team and their number one pitcher.

To say that Grundy was "out dueled", implies that both teams are having relatively comparable seasons and that is not close to the truth.

I apologize for for ruffling some feathers there. And I agree with you that Grundy is a phenomenal talent and threw an excellent ball game. Perhaps I used the term outdueled to indicate that two pitchers both threw very good games.

Lakes Friday: Lakes 4 Carmel 3...great senior night for lakes. WP Baiocchi complete game

Saturday: Lakes 7 Richmond Burton 2
WP Vanderwall

2nd Game Lakes 10 Richmond Buron 4
WP Snelton

Lakes Overall 23-11

Maine South 4
Foreman 1

I guess our intrepid CPS reporter only reports when Young wins or a certain Dolphin does well. So I'll pick up the slack.

Clemente 9
Young 7

Two former Clubbers,Frank Gowder and Dae Bowden, went yard at the Cell.

Congrats to Chris Hall and his guys at Clemente....

Also congrats to WY on a very impressive season as well.

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The loss in the CPS Championship was disappointing for sure. The game had a little of everything and went 8 innings.

Gabe Irazarry of Clemente was a former Clubber too. Congrats to the Clemente squad who took the championship. Their last was in 2003.

ISHA Playoffs begin today for Young so the season is not done yet. It is a tough bracket so we will see.

Dm, who do you see as making the sectional a tough sectional?

Thanks

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Originally posted by 2bagger:
Dm, who do you see as making the sectional a tough sectional?

Thanks

1. Chicago (St. Rita)
2. Chicago (Whitney Young)
3. Berwyn-Cicero (Morton)
4. Chicago (St. Ignatius College Prep)
5. Oak Park (Fenwick)
6. Chicago (Mt. Carmel)
7. Oak Park (O.P.-River Forest)
8. Chicago (Simeon)
9. Chicago (De La Salle)
10. Chicago (Clemente)

thx ratboy i have the list, are all those teams tough? I have not seen all of them play so I Don't know them all and sometimes the seeding as early as it is doesn't mean that much. I am not knocking the teams you listed just looking for input on them. Thanks

Regionals


Taft -6

Notre Dame- 2


Chris Rivera WP

Regionals

Streator 7

Normal U-High 5

#16 Providence Catholic - 7
#1 Lincoln-Way East - 6

LWE up 6-2 going in to the 7th and gives up a 5 spot.

Regionals

Monday - Warren 3, Wheeling 0.

Friday - At Carmel.

Tuzi, never heard how the night game against Rita went. You were wired... Did the game live up to your expectations?

A beautiful night sky, with a beautiful green field under sparkling lights with a full house: LWE-7 SR-6. Unquestionably, the game of the year for us. We'll be pulling for all of our SR friends going forward. But good luck to all!

Highland Park Regional

(#16) Prospect 11

(#1) Highland Park 5

Prospect plays winner of Thursdays Barrinton St Viators semi.

Batavia 9
W. Aurora 3
Batavia goes to 27-6
Karger goes to 9-0 on the mound
Venezuelan transfer Henry Duque went 3-3 at the plate;
Jordan Coffey, Brian Krolikowski and Tim Scofield each had 2 hits. Tyler Lindquist had a 2 RBI double.

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Originally posted by 2bagger:
thx ratboy i have the list, are all those teams tough?

Rita is very good, WY is good and beat them head-to-head.
Morton is having a good year and the Catholic schools all beat each other up, so you can't really gauge their toughness until they play someone else.

OPRF is a strong program, Simeon is one of the best programs in the city, and Clemente just beat Whitney Young for the city championship.

Maybe not the most loaded sectional, but the top 10 teams are all tough.

Thx ratboy I knew about St. Rita and I saw WY twice this season but maybe just had bad days. Saw OPRF once just never see most of the city teams. Appreciate your insight. Enjoy the playoffs.

Tuzi - Don't know when our paths will cross again but please convey our congratulations to Brandon on his stellar high school career and best of luck at Illinois. Let's hope we meet up on the road to the CWS someday...

WOW two 16 seeds upset two #1 seeds....

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Originally posted by CPLZ:
WOW two 16 seeds upset two #1 seeds....

Goes to show how worthless seeds and rankings can be.

I can't see Prospect being a 16 seed even in an off year. That program is too good to be at that level. They could easily win that Regional.

JMHO

Taft --which is a #13 seed and a public league school beating # 4 seed Notre Dame who could have just as easily been seeded 2 or 3 imo . Biggest upset imo so far ..and such a devastating loss for a don team( and myself ) that had much higher expectations . I truly believed we could have given New trier a run in this sectional . Unfortunately IMO , Don coaches got caught looking ahead past Taft .

Cant talk anymore about this ...just way too disappointing . I havent felt this devastated since my own playing days . There are playoff losses ....and then ..there is this .

Sorry fastballdad I don't see that happening. But hey it's baseball so who knows. That being said I still think the seeding stuff is a week or so early but I really do not know how the entire thing works.

IMO, the issue is that the IHSA seeds by geographic region. Sectional 1-16 seeds would be a tuffer lot from the W and SW suburbs (Lockport), and N an NW suburbs (Barrington) for instance, vs the Mt. Carmel sectional.

One might argue that there is parity in the top 1/2 of these sectionals and I'd agree. However from the middle down, the argument of parity existing can't be convincingly made. St. Rita absolutely destroyed Farragut yesterday, and I submit so would have Providence Catholic and Prospect. Sorry boys, but those are the facts.

What does it take, 5 hours to drive the state from top to bottom; and 2.5 hours side to side? I think if they capped the one way driving distance to a regional or sectional host to an hour or hour and half; and assigned schools to regionals and sectionals in that manner it may improve.

I'm not whining, I'm not upset about the loss; unfortunately HS baseball is now just a wonderful memory for me. Now Mom, she might need some therapy. .

I also know that the best teams don't always win such a large one-and-done tournament. And the ones that do win need to be talented, play mistake free, be hot, and have the bounces go their way, etc. I'm glad that my son, his friends, and our family and friends had the fortunate opportunity to experience it in the summer.

Good luck to everyone! And congradulations to the teams that win that last game. You'll never forget it for the rest of your life.

Tuzi
HS baseball is awesome. The memories of it are still thick as honey.

I still remember the feeling that it was all over...even though I knew he was moving upward...it still left a hollow feeling...they could have gone further!

Leyden 5
Maine South 2

Three years in a row Leyden has knocked out Maine South.

Bartlett 10
Marmion 4

A case for starting your ace in game 1. Marmion's Illinois commit Matt Milroy spent the game in CF instead of on the mound. Can't play tomorrow if you don't win today.

2Bagger

I'm not saying Prospect will win the Regional, I just think they have a legitmate shot at it.

Maybe it comes down to Barrington's pitching. Their stud Jr. has struggled at times, so let's see what happens.

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Originally posted by Tuzigoot:
However from the middle down, the argument of parity existing can't be convincingly made. St. Rita absolutely destroyed Farragut yesterday, and I submit so would have Providence Catholic and Prospect. Sorry boys, but those are the facts.

If the IHSA has a hard time getting coaches to seed teams in their own geographic area, how much luck are they going to get if they ask Farragut's coach to seed the city, Benet, Lockport, both DG schools, and York? Those schools can't be more than 30-45 minutes away from each other.

In the case of the Mt. Carmel sectional, most of the city teams are asked to beat up on each other. In the suburban sectionals, many of the teams have already played each other 3-4 times.

Would there be an uproar if St. Rita and Brother Rice were in the same sectional this year?

What if ALL Naperville area schools competed in 1 sectional to send 1 rep from that area?

Should they just pick the top 32 teams in an area and put them in a "champions" bracket and leave the undesirables to play in a "consolation" bracket?

It would be interesting if they cast a wider net and assigned 128 teams to a bracket and made the city teams travel to the suburbs and vice versa ...

fastball

Yes prospect has a shot as they are in the game and worked to get there after playing 2 already this week, not easy to do and congrats to them.