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Bill Booker retires as St. Bede baseball coach · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Bill Booker retires as Saint Bede baseball coach. Written by
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  Kevin Schlum, This article is being read by an automated
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  voice brought to you by Everlett. After more than three
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  decades and nearly six hundred wins as a head baseball coach,
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  Bill Booker has retired Saint Bede, announced in a press
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  release Friday. Booker led the Bruins to a two hundred
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  and one hundred and thirty record over the last eleven seasons,
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  coaching Saint Bede to six twenty win seasons, four regional titles,
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  one sectional title, and a fourth place finish in Class
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  two A in twenty fifteen. He began his career at
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  LaSalle Peru, coaching the Cavaliers to a three hundred seventy
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  five two hundred sixty six to five record in twenty seasons,
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  including eight twenty win seasons. Booker guided LP to four
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  regional titles, four sectional titles, and a pair of state trophies,
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  a fourth place finish in Class three A in two
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  thousand and nine and a runner up finish in twenty twelve.
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  Booker also was an assistant coach for Putnam County's Class
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  won A runner up team in twenty thirteen. Booker finished
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  with a career record of five hundred seventy six three
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  hundred ninety six five for a point five to nine
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  zero winning percentage. Saint Bede's press release said Booker's record
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  reflects his dedication, leadership, and commitment to developing student athletes,
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  both on and off the field. The press release also
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  noted Booker's work with the Saint Bede Spring Spring Training
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  baseball camp, the program's spring trips, and his efforts in
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  spearheading the building of the baseball field's press box in
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  honor of Evan Knoblausch, a Saint Bede baseball player who
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  died after a battle with cancer in twenty nineteen. Saint
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  Bede Academy extends its deepest gratitude to Coach Booker for
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  his eleven years of service, leadership, and impact in the
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  school community. The release said, we congratulate him on a
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  remarkable career and wish him all the best in his
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  well deserved retirement. Booker, a Mendota native, also was a
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  longtime assistant football coach for LP and Saint Bede.