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Griffin Dobberstein’s blast, Anthony Couch’s arm lead Marquette to 3rd in Class 2A with 4-1 win over Freeburg · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Gryffin Douberstein's blast Anthony Couch's arm lead Marquette to third
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  in Class two A with four to one win over Freeburg.
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  Written by J. T. Penalty, This article is being read
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  by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. There
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  was no dogpile on the mound, no gloves thrown in
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  the air, no wild celebration after the final out. It
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  wasn't the victory the Marquette Academy baseball team was hoping
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  for Saturday in the Class to ASSA State finals at
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  Champagne's Illinois Field, But it was another Crusader's victory. After
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  an uncharacteristically quiet performance in their state semi final loss
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  to Saint Joe Ogden the night before, the Crew offense
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  came out swinging Saturday evening with three runs in the
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  home half of the first inning. It proved to be
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  the difference in Marquette's for one win over the Freeberg Midgets.
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  In Class two a's third place game, Junior Griffin Dauberstein's
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  three h one hundred and forty five foot home run
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  to left in the first inning that scored both himself
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  in leadoff man Alec Navotni gave Marquette what turned out
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  to be all the runs it would need to bring
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  home the third place trophy. Last night, we didn't hit
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  a lot, Doberstein said. We had more hits in the
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  first inning today than we had last night. We played
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  with more energy than we did last night, and that's
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  why we won today. This win is really big for
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  our seniors. They've done a lot for our program, and
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  it's big to send them out on a win. It
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  is the seventh state trophy in Marquette baseball history, the
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  sixth earned over the past eight seasons, and the programs
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  first while competing in Class two A. The Crusaders, who
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  finished the twenty twenty sixth season with a record of
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  thirty eight four, won Class one state championships in twenty nineteen,
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  twenty twenty four, and twenty twenty five. After Marquette starting
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  pitcher Anthony Couch faced the minimum in the top of
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  the first thanks to an inning ending double started by
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  Dauberstein at short stop, Novotny got the Crusaders going with
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  a first pitch double that one hopped the left field fence.
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  Dauberstein followed with his blast. I was looking for a
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  fastball first pitch, Novotny said of his double, trying to
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  get one out over the plate. I got it, and
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  I was ready for it. It's huge for us as
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  a group in a program getting third place. Obviously, it
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  wasn't where we wanted to end up, but we wanted
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  to go out on a win, whether it was a
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  first or a third place game. A Grant Dose single
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  and stolen base, followed by a Caden Durden seeing Rbi
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  single up the middle made it three zero Marquette after
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  one inning. Couch pitched out of jams in both the
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  second and third, and Crusader's clean up hitter, Easton de Bernardi,
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  gave him another insurance run to work with with a
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  solo blast just to the left of the four hundred
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  sign in center off Midgets starting pitcher Cohen Merril. Marquette
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  coach Todd Hopkins told me to slow him down, get
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  my pitch and blast Itardi said, I saw my pitch
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  took a good swing. I didn't know what was gone,
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  so I hustled and then I saw it felt good
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  off the bat. The four runs proved to be plenty
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  for Couch, who pitched six and one third innings. Allowing
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  five hits and four walks, striking out seven, and surrendering
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  just one run on a Jonathan Barlow RBI double in
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  the fourth. Freiberg managed to get the potential potential tying
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  run on deck in the seventh against Couches reliever da Bernardi,
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  but da Bernardi left him in the on deck circle
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  with a ground out to Couch at second. These third
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  and fourth place games, this is the fourth one I've
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  been part of, and it's not the most fun game
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  to play in, said Hopkins, who has led the Crusaders
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  to all seven of their state trophies. You never know
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  how they're going to respond, but boy, they responded. In
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  the first inning. Anthony threw outstanding and we played pretty
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  solid defense behind him. I am proud of the kids.
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  They showed they can play in the two ranks, but
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  they also showed the heart that they had. Merrill, who
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  came in with a sub one point zero zero era,
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  suffered his first loss of this season, allowing four earned
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  runs on ten hits, no walks in three strikeouts over
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  three and two thirds innings. He settled in, but the
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  rocky start against Marquette's ready to go bats ultimately did him.
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  And the midgets in. We knew they were going to
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  be aggressive at the plate. Freeberg coach Drew Gerke said,
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  when you know that, you've got to hit your spots
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  and you've got to keep the ball down. We didn't
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  do that the first inning, but then Cohen dialed himself
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  in like he did all year. It's a state game.
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  First inning, you get the jitters out, and then he
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  settled down and did what Cohen does. Freeburg finishes the
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  year thirty eleven. There's a lot of participation trophies out there,
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  Jerixy said, but this is not a participation trophy. We
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  deserved and earned to be here. Barlow finished with three
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  of Freeburg's five hits on the day. Dobberstein matched him
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  with three hits for Marquette, with Novotny in Do's contri
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  reading two hits apiece to the crew's twelve hit attack.