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Seneca baseball has a ‘we snuck by’ win at Princeton · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Seneca baseball has a wee snuck by win at Princeton.
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  Written by Kevin Hieronymous, This article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Seneca coach
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  Tim Brunyard and the Irish felt like they couldn't get
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  out of town fast enough after Thursday's baseball game at Princeton.
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  The Irish took an eight run lead, only to have
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  the Tigers score two runs in the bottom of the
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  sixth inning and four more in the seventh, with Seneca
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  holding on for an eight to sixth non conference win
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  that went from a feel good eight to two win
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  to a wee snuck by. Brunyard said, it's always good
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  to win this late in the season when we're gearing
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  up for postseason plates. You want to be playing your
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  best baseball in the seventh inning. To compound mistakes and
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  make multiple errors to let them creep back in, it's
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  not what you want to do. It was really good
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  to hold on there, got a little nervous for a second.
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  We managed to come out with the win, Seneca's starting
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  and winning pitcher Cam Shirley said. Seneca twelve fifteen opened
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  with four runs in the first and scored twice in
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  the top of the sixth to go up eight zero.
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  Then came the Tigers. Princeton scored two runs on three
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  hits in the sixth, with Caden Benevedez delivering a two out,
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  two run single following a leadoff single by Hunter Spiegel.
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  A hit by Steele broke off, while Noah Morton drew
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  a walk. Benevedez was the last batter to face Shirley,
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  who scattered four hits with ten strikeouts over five and
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  two thirds innings. The Tigers were just warming up. Hayden
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  Sailor led off the seventh with a single to left,
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  and Abe Longeville reached on an error. Spiegel stroked a
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  two run single to left to make it eight four.
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  Bradenshaw reached on an infield single, he stole second, and
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  Spiegel scored on the back end on a Seneca error
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  to draw the Tigers within eight five. Jack Oaster hit
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  a sack fly to left to bring home Shaw from
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  third to make it an eight six game, before Morton
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  flew out to center to end the game. First year
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  Tigers coach Patrick Smith was pleased how his team battled back.
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  We tell them pretty much every day. Really don't care
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  what the scoreboard says, as long as we play the
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  game the right way and compete to the very end.
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  Smith said, there's been some times this year where we
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  almost folded, and we didn't do that today, which was
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  nice to see. The first arm Shersley shut us down.
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  He was a heck of a pitcher. We got to
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  do a better job early in the game scratching across
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  something they definitely fought, which was nice to see. Semeeca
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  scored its four runs in the first on just two hits,
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  including an RBI double by Cody Clennan and an RBI
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  hit by Jace Mitchell. Griffin Hugas drew a bases loaded walk,
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  and Vinnie Carrado brought home the fourth run on a
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  fielder's choice. We were really good on two strike approach today,
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  Shirley said. That's definitely a step up from where we
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  have been in the past. Landon Ramsey two RBIs, Mitchell
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  two RBIs and Hugus RBI each went two for three
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  for the Irish. Spiegel led the Tigers with two hits,
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  two runs scored, and two RBIs out of the number
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  nine hole. Spiegel, at the bottom of the order, had
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  one of the few hits we had against Shirley. He
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  put a nice game together, put a couple of nice
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  swings on the ball. Smith said, we talk about having
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  a good approach. Sometimes when we see a good arm,
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  we lose that a little bit. You worry about the vellow.
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  I think we did worry a little bit in the
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  middle of the game. We just got to keep plugging away.
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  Princeton seven to fifteen returns to action Friday and the
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  King of the Valley Illinois Valley Tournament was Washington Park
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  with back to back games with Marquette and Newman. The
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  Irish twelve fifteen have now won eleven of their last
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  nineteen games after starting the season one. Seven started off
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  pretty slow, but we've played well of late. Kudos to
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  these guys, Brunard said. They keep showing up when we
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  asked them to be there in the morning and do
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  all the extra work and it's paying off for us now.
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  I feel like we're starting to pick up the pace
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  a little bit. Definitely getting better on things we need
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  to get better on. We all want it, Shirley said,