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‘Stihl’-ing is a good thing for Princeton baseball · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Stealing is a good thing for Princeton baseball. Written by
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  Kevin Hurronimus. This article is being read by an automated
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  voice brought to you by Everlet. When you have a
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  player named Style, it's a good bet your baseball team
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  is going to steal bases. The Princeton Tigers swiped thirty
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  one bases over two nights in back to back games
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  last week against Kowane. The Tigers had seventeen steals on
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  April thirtieth in an eleven to one win at home,
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  tying for the seventeenth most steals in a single game
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  in the ISA records. A road to Kiwani on May
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  first did little to slow down the Tigers on the
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  base paths, where they pilfered fourteen more steals in a
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  fourteen to six win. Tiger coach Patrick Smith said stealing
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  bases has to be a big part of the Tigers
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  game plan. We're not really hitting a lot of home
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  runs or slug in a ton, and we've got some
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  fast kids, he said. We feel like that's the way
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  we've got to attack the game. Play a little tad
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  more small ball, move guys over and cause a little chaos.
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  It happened to work out last week for us. A
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  couple of times the kids are executing, they get a
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  good read on the pitcher and do what we coach
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  them to to get on base and run as hard
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  as they can. Sophomore Jack Auster and junior Hayden Sailor
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  led the Tiger's thievery with four steals in the first
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  game at home with Steel. Brokaw pilfering four at Kawani,
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  including a steal of home. The two day leaders were
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  Brokaw and Oaster with seven each, followed by Braden Shaw
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  and Sailor with five each, and Abe Longevill at four.
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  It is crazy. Our team was just getting really good
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  jumps all game. We were all locked in from the
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  first pitch. Brokaw said. One thing our coach has been
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  preaching this year is aggression on the base pass. We
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  want to cause havoc on the season. Shaw and Oaster
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  each have fifteen stolen bases, with Brokaw right behind at thirteen.
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  Winston is the eighth team to steal seventeen bases in
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  a single game according to ISA records. Downstate Cairo, which
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  had games of twenty three and seventeen steals in twenty
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  thirteen holds the record with twenty six steals versus Carbondale
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  Trinity in twenty twelve games suspended. Monday's Princeton at Hall
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  game was suspended in the bottom of the first on
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  the account of lightning. No makeup date has been set
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  as of seven pm Monday,