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Hall’s ‘Comeback Kids’ fall short by one run to Monmouth-Roseville · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Paul's Comeback Kids fall short by one run to Monmouth Roseville.
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  Written by Kevin Hieronymus. This article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. A Hall mom,
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  cheering for the Red Devil's Thursday said, let's go boys.
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  You're the comeback Kids, and comeback they did, scoring three
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  runs in the bottom of the seventh, including a two
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  run triple by Hunter Edgecombe, to come back within one run.
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  In Thursday's regional semi final against Monmouth Roseville at Prather
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  Field in Princeton. The Comeback Kids just ran out of outs,
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  falling five to four to the Titans, ending their season
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  at November one. Twenty four. Shows who we are, fighting
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  all the way to the end. Edgecombe said that last
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  inning kind of shows who we are and who we've
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  been all year. Just sucks. We couldn't put the pieces
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  together early on to make it convincing. We went down
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  with a fight. Hall senior Braiden Kerrn said. Gino Ferrari
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  led off the Hall seventh with a single to left
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  and Noah Plim walked. Jack Kurrn grounded into a fielder's choice,
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  but Ferrari avoided the tag. By Monroe's third baseman Liam
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  Parker to load the bases with one out. Braiden Curran
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  also grounded into a fielder's choice at third, with Plim
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  retired at the bag, but Ferrari scored to make it
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  five to two. Edgecomb found some of that red Devil
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  magic with a blop down the first baseline which skipped
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  past Carlson in right field for a triple, sending the
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  current Twins running a relay home to pull Haul within
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  five to four. That's where I wanted to be. That's
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  where we all wanted to be in the last inning,
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  not making that last out and keep it going. Edgecumbe said,
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  he's the kid we want there. Everybody trusts him to
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  do something, and he came through. Braiden Kerran said. Monroe's
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  sophomore starter Keegan Smith, retired Grayson Bickett on a ground
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  out to third, sending the Titans fifteen fifteen Today's regional
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  finals at eleven am against Rock Island Alman November one,
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  twenty one, the Pioneers twenty one to fifteen beat Kwhany
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  seventy three. On Wednesday. Whatever mistake we made, they capitalized
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  on it. A walk a booted ball can't finish the
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  back end of a double play. All that stuff mounted
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  up and hurt. Haul coach Tom Keegan said, we did
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  mount a little rally that loomed large for us, without
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  a doubt, but a bad day to have a bad day.
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  Monroe's coach Mike Hustin said, to beat a team like
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  Hall in the postseason means a lot. They are the
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  standard of baseball in this area and this conference, and
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  they're well coached. He said, we didn't have a real
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  good showing in conference thirteen to three losses, but they
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  also didn't see our number one Smith. I thought Keegan
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  came out and pitched really well tonight. We got some
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  timely hits and the boys have been playing good baseball.
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  We needed a win like this Smith, who pitched a
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  complete game, allowing four hits with four earned runs. While
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  fans said it all went according to plan for the Titans,
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  big thing we focused on this week was limiting walks.
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  We played them three weeks ago. We walked quite a
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  few and hit quite a few. Smith said, we came
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  in saying we can play with these guys. We can
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  play with anybody in the state. We've just got a
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  limit walks, put guys on, move them over, got to
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  score runs. First inning, we put two on the board
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  and I was like, here we go, we're rolling, We're
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  right on plan, and we just kept going. It was
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  exactly how we drew it up. All five of the
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  Titans runs on the day were unearned, with Hall making
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  four errors. They scored two runs after two outs in
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  the first with the help of a Hall error. Tyler
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  Carlson singled in the first run, with Nick Huston reaching
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  home on an RBI hit by Parker a Hare before
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  Carlson was tagged out at second to end the inning. Ferrari,
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  who went one for two, got one run back with
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  RBI hit to left to score bicket in the home
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  half of the first. Monroe's open ended up a five
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  to one lead in the third, scoring three runs on
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  just one hit with the help of three Hall errors.
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  Paul starter Luke Bryant was tagged for all five runs,
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  all unearned, allowing three hits and three walks with three
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  strikeouts over three innings. Got a good group of seniors
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  moving on. Now we hand it over to everybody else
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  and see if we can get something going next season,
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  Keegan said. Monrose will face an Aloman team. It lost
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  eighteen to three to on April fourteenth. Coach Hustin said
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  it was the titans worst showing by far. We struggled,
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  made a lot of mistakes. We were still figuring out
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  a lot of things. He said, I think we match
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  up well with them. We've got the people in the
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  right positions now it will be exciting.