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Marquette blasts past IC Catholic Prep in 2A sectional semifinal · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Marquette blasts pasted Icy Catholic Prep into a sectional semifinal.
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  Written by Brian Hoxy, this article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Marquette and
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  Icy Catholic Prep traded leads back and forth and were
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  deadlocked after three innings in Wednesday's class to a Hersher
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  Sectional baseball semifinal. In the top of the fourth, the
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  Crusaders grabbed the momentum and lead for good. Marquette junior
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  Griffin Dauberstein blasted a two run homer to left center
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  off IC's Anthony Urso before the Crusaders exploded for ten
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  runs over the final three innings in an eventual fifteen
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  to three victory over the Nights. I was a little
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  under and a little late on the fastball on the
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  first pitch, Dauberstein said. I was looking for a change
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  up on the next pitch, and I got it. He
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  had just gotten Alec novitne out on it in the
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  same kind of sequence right before me. I don't feel
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  like I put the greatest swing on it. I was
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  a little early, but I was able to get in
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  the air. I got just enough barrel on it. And
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  I think the wind helped a little too. It was
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  one of fifteen hits and four home runs for Marquette
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  thirty five to three, which advances to play Wilmington, a
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  six to two winner over Mantino in the second semi
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  final for the championship at ten am Saturday. Ice Catholic
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  Prep finished the season at fifteen nineteen to one. Griffin's
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  homer and then us being able to shut them down
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  in the in the bottom half of the inning was big,
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  Marquette coach Todd Hopkins said, in these postseason games, a
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  lot of times, the momentum can swing five, six, seven times,
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  and you have to be able to let any mistakes
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  you make go in a hurry and move on. The
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  kids are playing really well right now and we're really
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  locked in today. We had a couple things early on
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  that didn't go our way, but they stayed positive and
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  just kept playing. Marquette took the lead in the first
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  on an RBI single by Grant Dose off night starter
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  Manny Diudes lost two and two thirds IP six H
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  three e erter three BB, zero K, while Camillo Colombari's
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  run scoring base hit in the bottom half of the
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  frame off Crusader starter Anthony Couch tied the game. Ic
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  scored on an error in the second, but Marquette tied
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  the game on a solo homer to left center by
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  a Couch and led three to two after an RBI
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  single by cadender Don. The Knights made it three to
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  three after three innings on an RBI bas hit by Dudes.
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  After Dauberstein's blast made it five to three, he entered
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  the game in relief and didn't allow a hit, striking
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  out six over the next three innings. I was really
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  just going with my fastball and moving it around the zone,
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  Dauberstein said. I didn't really have to go with many
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  off speed pitches, especially after we added on some runs
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  in the fifth. From there, it was just get ahead
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  and pound the strike zone. Marquette scored four runs in
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  the fifth to truly take control. Braxton Nell was hit
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  by a pitch from M. E. Madrigal with the bases loaded.
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  Bo Thompson lined a two run single down the right
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  field line, and Novatnai smacked an RBI single to center.
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  Jackson Higgins ripped a solo home run to left center
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  in the sixth and in a five run seventh. Dauberstein's
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  RBI double was followed two batters later by a towering
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  grand slam homer to write off the bat of Easton DeBernardi.
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  DeBernardi struck out two and seventh to close things out.
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  Novotny and Grant Dose each had three hits for the Crusaders,
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  while Dauberstein, DeBernardi, and Thompson each had two hits. Couch
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  three IP four H two R two BB four k
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  earned the win on the mound. Dudes finished with two
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  of the Knight's four hits. We battled even with them
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  through the first three innings, but Dauberstein's homer in the
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  fourth was a big momentum shift, said IC Catholic Prep
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  coach Dan Mustari, who announced he'll be retiring after seventeen seasons.
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  Marquette can really hit the ball all through their lineup.
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  They don't get cheated. They adjusted to whatever kind of
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  picture we threw out there, and that's one of the
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  reasons they won back to back Class one estate titles.
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  We battled all the way, but overall we just made
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  way too many mistakes. Mistakes you just can't make and
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  expect to win at this time of the season