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Princeton falls to Kewanee in regional opener · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Princeton falls to Kiwani in regional opener. Written by Kevin Hieronymus.
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. Michael Jackson played on the pa
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  between innings during Monday's Class two A regional baseball quarter
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  final between host Princeton and Kiwani at Pratherfield. It was
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  not a thriller by any means for the Tigers. In
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  a game of what could go wrong did? The boiler
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  Makers got three extra outs with the help of two
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  Tiger errors and a dropped third strike in the second inning,
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  hitting the ball out of the infield just once and
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  scoring four runs to take a six to one lead.
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  Keweny four to twenty seven tacked on four more runs
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  in the sixth, helped by a wild pitch and a
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  pass ball, on the way to a ten to five
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  win to advance to Wednesday semifinals against top seed Aloman fifteen.
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  We didn't seem to get any good bounces go our way.
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  Good teams got to overcome that, and we just didn't today,
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  Princeton coach Patrick Smith said, we didn't make plays when
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  we needed. They made more plays than we did. Princeton
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  had thirty one stolen bases in a eleven to one,
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  fourteen to five sweep over Kawani and back to back
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  nights this season, but managed just one steal in two
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  attempts Monday. Kiwane had an ace up its sleeve, this
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  time in pitcher Logan Pede, who has been sidelined on
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  the mound of most of the season. While he did
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  allow nine hits and five runs only in fanning seven,
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  he kept the early lead his teammates gave him. It's
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  really nice to have Logan Pede back on the bump,
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  just filling up the zone with a couple pitches, being
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  able to mix speeds and locate Kewenny coach John Moraski said,
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  a couple times we played them earlier in the season,
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  we struggled to throw strikes, a lot of walks free
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  bases and they'll kill you. Logan gave us six really
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  quality innings, and then Reid Nichols had a nice little
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  coming out party in the seventh inning and did a
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  nice job in a high pressure situation as a sophomore
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  and handled it really well. Smith said Pete made a
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  big difference. He's a good pitcher and I saw he
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  was throwing a little bit, so I fully expected he'd
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  be pitching. He said, he just pounds the zone. We
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  tell our guys all the time, you don't give away
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  free bases, you throw strikes, and we played defense behind him.
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  You've got a great chance to win, and that's exactly
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  what he did. I thought we hit the ball well,
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  we just didn't string enough together. The Tigers eight twenty
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  one got two runs back in the bottom of the
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  third after Kawani scored four in the second. Bradenshaw, who
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  led off the first inning with a triple and scored,
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  hit a leadoff double to left Steele. Brokaw blooped a
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  single in front of center fielder Ace LaFollette, with Shaw
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  holding at second. Noah Morton advanced both runners with a
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  sacrifice called out for running outside the baseline. Shaw came
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  in when Caden Benevedez's fly was dropped in center and
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  Ryan Jagers singled home Brokaw to make it six to three.
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  Tigers starter Jagers pitched three scoreless innings before the Boilers
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  struck again, scoring four runs on four hits, including an
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  RBI single by Isaiah Ince and RBI double by Pde
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  in the sixth. The Tigers used a two run error
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  by Kewenye in the sixth to close within ten to five.
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  Princeton loaded the bases after two hits in the seventh
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  when Abe Longeville reached on an error and Hayden Sailor
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  saying following a leadoff hit by Benevetez, Shaw, who had
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  hits in his first three at bats, hit into a
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  fielder's choice on a three zero count, forcing Benevetez at
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  third to end the game. Smith enjoyed his first year
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  at the Helm, having served as assistant under former head
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  coach Wick Warren. I appreciate all the kids we had.
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  It's a great group and they competed, he said, you
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  saw it today. We were down five runs. They easily
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  could have rolled over and gave away at bats. They
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  didn't give away anything. They competed to the very last out,
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  and that's really all we can ask of them. Just
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  compete and do what we can and the scoreboard is
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  going to take care of itself. Shaw finished three for
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  five out of the leadoff slot for the Tigers eight
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  twenty one, with Brokaw and Benevedez each going two for four.
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  Ince Peede LaFollette and Dane van Develt each had two
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  hits for the boiler Makers. The Boilermakers turned their attention
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  to the highly favored Pioneers and Wednesday semifinals. Aloman beat
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  Kawani seventeen thirteen in a high scoring affair last week.
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  We're playing our best ball at the right time, which
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  is always the goal. Looking forward to Wednesday against a
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  good team, Kawani coach John Mraski said the winner of
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  their game will draw a Thursday's semi final winner between
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  Hall and Mamouth Roseville and Saturday's regional final at eleven am.