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Marquette is first ‘King of the Valley’ · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Marquette is first King of the Valley. Written by Kevin Hieronymous,
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  this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. While jets and airplanes buzzed Schweikert
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  Stadium in Peru, Ottawa, Marquettes Griffin Dauberstein and Grady Dose
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  put on their air show. In Saturday's King of the
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  Valley Championship game, the Crusaders duo each clubed two run homers,
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  driving in seven runs between them to power the Crusaders
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  to the inaugural Illinois Valley Baseball Tournament Championship, defeating Tri
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  County Conference rival Saint Bede thirteen three and five innings,
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  earning the title as King of the Valley. Been kind
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  of in a slump, so it feels good to hit
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  a couple of balls hard, especially against Saint Bede. Dauberstein said,
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  we beat them once, they beat us once. This was
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  kind of the rubber match between us. It was a
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  must win coming out today. All the boys knew it.
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  We competed little grit didn't have our one or our
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  two pitchers, but they did phenomenal. Our pitchers buried down
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  and threw good pitches. Play good defense, going to win
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  a lot of games doing that. Dose said. Playing in
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  the new tournament put on by Hall was fun. We
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  knew a lot of the kids from the Say area,
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  Saint Bede, maybe not so much Newman because they're a
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  little bit farther, and a few kids from Princeton. He said.
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  It's fun to compete against kids you've played against your
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  whole life. It was really fun. Dobberstein's two run homer
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  in the third inning gave the Crusaders a nine to
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  three advantage. Dose followed with a two run blast of
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  his own in the fourth inning to make it eleven
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  to three. He was surprised as anyone. I've never really
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  had a lot of home runs in high school, to
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  be fair, he said, Griffin's had a lot. Other kids
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  on our team have had a lot. That was only
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  my second home run. Always feels good to catch one
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  out because it's a huge confidence booster, makes you remember
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  you can hit your good I kind of changed my
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  approach a little bit, backed off the plate a little bit,
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  kept getting jammed, put three good barrels. It was a
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  good night. Marquette coach Todd Hopkins joked that he'll be
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  swinging for it now. Yeah, he hit that pretty good.
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  That was good to see. Novotny reached on a by
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  pitch to open the Marquette fifth and scored on an
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  RBI double as center by Dobberstein. A flyout to center
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  advanced Douberstein third, where he scored a batter later on
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  Debornardi sac fly to center to end the game. Saint
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  Bede coach Bill Booker, whose team is the only team
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  to defeat the two time defending champion Crusaders this season
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  to gain a split of TCC games, gave it their
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  best shot. We can't match their firepower. That's really tough
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  when you're on the end of your arms for the week.
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  If you can get ahead with pitchers counts, you might
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  be able to get a few extra outs. But we
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  fell behind, miss spots and they hit them. Booker city
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  used every single one of his pitching staff to make
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  it through a full week of six games and six days.
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  The Bruins split Friday's pool games, losing to Putnam County
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  four to two and defeating Hall four to two. They
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  took the pool title by virtue of the fewest runs
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  allowed tiebreaker. The Bruins struck first with a two out,
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  two run hit to left by Gino Ferrari with the
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  bases loaded, Rain Bierceny, Saint Bede's starting pitcher, drove in
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  a run with an RBI double des center to give
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  the Bruins a three to one lead. In the top
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  of the second. The Crusaders put up five runs in
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  the home half on just two hits, including a two
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  run single to write by Dose to take a six
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  to three lead. Bo Thompson also drew a bases loaded walk,
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  Novatny brought a run home on a ground out, and
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  Anthony Couch hit a sack fly to right leading up
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  to Doze's hit. Both Dauberstein, who doubled Homeward, scored three
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  runs and drove in three runs, and Dose four RBIs,
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  went two for three. Marquette's starter, Jackson Higgins picked up
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  the win, allowing three hits, three runs, and five walks
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  with three strikeouts, while Michael Johnson pitched two scoreless innings
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  in relief. We were hitting the ball pretty good yesterday
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  and carried it over today, said Hopkins, whose team beat
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  prince Ton and Newman to win the American Pool on Friday.
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  Jackson has pretty much been our catcher this year. He
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  threw a few and I thought he did a decent job.
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  Then Michael came in and kept them off balance. Both
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  Hopkins and Booker liked having the new tournament. It was
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  good for the area. Credit to Hall for putting it on.
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  Hopkins said, I enjoyed this. The concept was a great idea.
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  I like the area thing with decent crowds and good weather.
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  Booker said, good baseball teams in the area. When you're
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  playing them, it's fun.