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Marquette readies for 2A state after back-to-back 1A titles · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Marquette readies for two A state after back to back.
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  One of titles written by Brian Hoxey, this article is
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  being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  The Marquette baseball team, while a very talented club, showed
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  why getting to the IA Final four isn't easy, especially
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  after moving up a class for the Class two A
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  Crusaders back to back one A state champions. It started
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  with a pair of tough regional games, including needing a
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  walk off home run from senior Anthony Couch to top Bishop McNamara.
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  Marquette then hit their way to a pair of sectional
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  wins before capturing a back and forth, on the edge
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  of your seat nine to six win over Brimfield in
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  Tuesday's Saint Bede super Sectional. When you get this late
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  in the season, a lot of times games play out
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  like tuesday Supersectional did, said Marquette coach Todd Hopkins, who
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  will be guiding the cruiseade to a seventh state finals
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  in his twenty eighth season. I felt like when we
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  went up for one, we were in a good spot,
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  but give Brimfield credit, they came right back. Then we
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  were up three again in the fifth, and they came back.
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  A big key for us was getting those two runs
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  in the top of the seventh to just give us
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  a little cushion heading to the bottom. I thought our
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  guys played a very gutsy game. We had a couple
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  of innings where we left the bases loaded and didn't
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  score and had a call at the plate not go
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  our way. But these guys have a great ability to
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  just flush it and move on from it. Having that
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  short term memory is often a big difference in the
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  outcoming big games. Marquette thirty seven to three will take
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  on Saint Joseph Ogden thirty eight to two in Friday's
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  semifinals at seven pm on Illinois Field in Champagne. The
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  Spartans defeated Williamsville nine to zero in the Springfield Lincoln
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  Land Community College Supersectional. The winner of Friday's contest will
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  take on the winner of the other semi five between
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  Harvest Westminster twenty seven to seven and Freeburg thirty nine.
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  Saint Joseph Ogden has been ranked ahead of us by
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  PBR Prep Baseball Report all season long and the top
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  pick of everybody to win Class two A from the start,
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  Hopkins said, We've watched them play and have some information
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  on them. They are a very talented team that plays
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  a tough schedule, competes in a very tough Illini Prairie Conference,
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  and had a real gauntlet of a sectional complex to
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  get through. It's going to take a superhuman effort to
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  compete with them, and hopefully we have that in US Friday,
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  Marquette's hit point three eight zero. As a team, scored
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  ten point three runs per outing and is six to
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  zero in one run games this season. The lineup features
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  seniors Alec Novotny Low four hundred and seventy eight nineteen
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  doubles three hours forty four RBI, Couch Low three hundred
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  and eighty three, five hours fifty five RBI, Grant Dose
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  Low three hundred and seventy five two hours thirty eight RBI,
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  and Jackson Higgins Low three hundred and thirty three two
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  hours twenty nine RBI, as well as juniors Griffin Dauberstein
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  point four zero seven, eight hours thirty seven RBI, Cayden
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  Durden point three nine four nine doubles twenty nine RBI,
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  Bo Thompson point three sixty six twelve RBI, Braxton Nell
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  Low three hundred and sixty one one hour fifteen RBI
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  and Easton De Bernardi low three hundred and thirty six
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  twelve hours fifty three RBI. On the mound, The Crusaders
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  have posted a team ERA of two dot four three COMMA,
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  led by Novotny eight one one point three two E
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  RA fifty three IP thirty one H four B B
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  one hundred and two K, Couch twelve one three point
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  sixty five E R forty eight, IP thirty nine, H
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  thirty two, BB sixty eight, K Dauberstein four one one
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  point eight eight E R forty one, I P twenty
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  seven H fifteen BB sixty eight K and Di Bernardi
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  five zero two point four six ERA thirty seven I
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  P twenty four H thirty three BB fifty two K.
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  Novotny is the probable starter for Friday's semifinal. This feeling
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  never gets old, Couch said after Tuesday's State clinching victory.
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  I think we all knew this is something we could accomplish,
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  and it's awesome that we did it, as great as
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  it is to make it to State. Just like the
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  last two years, we're going there to win. I feel
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  like we've played with a lot of confidence all season.
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  We're hot right now, knock on wood. So now we
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  just have to keep it going for two more games.
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  Saint Joseph Ogden will enter Friday's game on a sixteen
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  game winning streak. The Spartans have averaged eight point six
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  runs per game while allowing just over two seniors. Trevor
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  ames The four hundred and sixty seven eleven hours sixty
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  four RBI, Logan Rosenthal three hundred and eighty eight one
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  hour twenty five RBI, Bryson Hutchins three hundred and eighty
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  five ten hours fifty three RBI, Parker Finch three hundred
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  and sixty four eight doubles eighteen RBI, Cody McKinney Low
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  two hundred ninety five one hour nineteen RBI, Will Hayley
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  Low two and seventy seven, three triples twenty seven RBI,
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  Asher Prumer point two seven four one hour twenty seven RBI,
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  and Cam Schluter point two six four four hours twenty
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  seven RBI, as well as junior Finn Miller three hundred
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  and sixty one two hours twenty eight RBI, have led
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  the way with the bats on the mound. S Jo
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  has a team ERA of one point six two and
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  allows just under five hits a game. They've been led
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  by Fitch ten two one point eight seven ERA seventy
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  five IP fifty eight H fifteen BB seventy two K,
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  who fired a three hit shutout in super Sectional, Prumer
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  ten zero one point one three RA sixty eight IP
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  forty six H eighty seven K, Aimes seven zero one
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  twenty four ERA thirty twenty seven H eighteen BB thirty
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  seven K, and Junior Dalton York five zero one point
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  two four ERA thirty four IP twenty three H fifteen
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  BB forty three K getting moved up to two A
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  this year. We just wanted to earn the respect of
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  the other teams in the class and show that we
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  belong where we are at. Hopkins said. The kids have
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  used it as a big chip on their shoulder, and
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  I think that's a great thing. The last two years
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  were the last two years. These kids are hungry and
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  they are out to prove something.