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- 0:05Speaker 1: Princeton's Jackson Mason wins three matches at state tennis. Thursday's
- 0:09News Tribune roundup written by Kevin Schlum. This article is
- 0:15being read by an automated voice brought to you by
- 0:17Everlett Boys Tennis at Chicago Suburbs. Princeton senior Jackson Mason
- 0:25advanced to the second day of the ISA Class one
- 0:27A state tournament with three wins. Thursday. Mason lost his
- 0:31first match six zero, six zero to Wheaton Saint Francis
- 0:35senior Umer Bajua, a number five eight seed, before bouncing
- 0:38back to win three matches in the consolation bracket. In
- 0:42his first consolation match, Mason beat Saint Ignatius College Preps
- 0:46Schiven dev Nani six two sixty four. Then he defeated
- 0:49Newman's Jowel Roads six two four six ten eight in
- 0:52the second round of the consolation bracket, before topping Mount
- 0:55Zion's Ryan Rutherford six to zero, six to one in
- 0:58his third round consolation. Mason will play Vernon Hills senior
- 1:03Romans Stukoff, a number three four seed, in a fourth
- 1:05round consolation match on Friday. Boys Track and in five
- 1:10at Charleston Amboy co Op freshman Ian Hasler advanced to
- 1:14the finals in both throwing events at the is A
- 1:16Class one Estate meet at Eastern Illinois University in Charlestown.
- 1:21Hassler threw the discus forty eight point four meters for
- 1:24the fourth best mark of the preliminaries Thursday, while he
- 1:27tossed the shot put a personal record fifteen point seven
- 1:31to two meters, which was tenth in the prelims. The
- 1:34top twelve advanced to Saturday's finals in field events, with
- 1:38nine earning medals. Hassler wasn't the only News Tribune area
- 1:42thrower to advance, as Putnam County senior Alex Rodriguez earned
- 1:46a return trip to finals in the shot put with
- 1:48a toss of one five eight one comma, which was
- 1:51ninth in the prelims. Rodriguez also competed in the discus,
- 1:55but did not qualify for finals, finishing seventeenth at forty
- 1:59four point seven five four. Fieldcrest's senior Michael Beckett punched
- 2:03his ticket back to the triple jump finals with the
- 2:06season best leap of one three dot five to five comma,
- 2:09which was sixth in the prelims. Amboy sophomore Damian Bender
- 2:13qualified in the three hundred meter hurdles by placing eighth
- 2:17in the prelims in forty point seven to seven seconds.
- 2:19He also competed in long jump, but did not advance,
- 2:22as he was forty third at five point six three.
- 2:26Several other area athletes saw their season's end Thursday. Bureau
- 2:30Valleys Andrew Roth finished fifteenth in the one hundred and
- 2:33ten hurdles fifteen point three seven and twenty sixth in
- 2:37the three hundred hurdles forty two point three. Also for
- 2:41the Storm, Tucker, Shane Morgan, Manismith, Kyle Velasquez and Keenan
- 2:46Richter finished twenty third in the four x two hundred
- 2:48relay one thirty three point zero nine, and Alex Gallardo,
- 2:52Caine Richter, Adrian Gallardo and Maddox Moore took twenty eighth
- 2:57in the four x eight hundred relay eight forty four
- 2:59point eight five and bv's four one hundred relay did
- 3:02not finish. Henry Midlands Breckon Piles finished twenty sixth in
- 3:06the long jump six point twenty seven and did not
- 3:08record a height in the high jump. Saint Bede's James
- 3:12Arkins tied for twenty fifth in the pole vault with
- 3:14a PR of three point three five, and Fieldcrest's Braydon
- 3:17Epplin was twenty eighth in the discus forty two point
- 3:21seven to three. Baseball Fieldcrest eight Deer Creek Mackinaw two.
- 3:26The number five seeded Knights scored eight runs in the
- 3:28fifth inning on the way to a win over the
- 3:30number four Chiefs and a Class one A Delavon Regional
- 3:33semifinal in delavan Eli Gourds doubled twice, drove in two runs,
- 3:38and scored a run, while Layton Gourds and Drew Overrocker
- 3:41each went two for four with a run and an RBI.
- 3:44Leyton Gourds was the winning pitcher as he gave up
- 3:47two unearned runs on two hits while striking out nine
- 3:50and walking four and six innings. Overrocker pitched a perfect
- 3:53seventh with two strikeouts. Field Crest twelve sixteen advances to
- 3:58play Number one Tremont thirty two to two in the
- 4:01championship at eleven am Saturday, IVC three Saint Bede two.
- 4:06The number four seeded Bruins took a two zero lead,
- 4:09but the number five Ghosts rallied with three runs in
- 4:11the fifth inning en route to a win and a
- 4:13class to a Mercer County Regional semifinal in Aleto. Gus
- 4:17Burr was two for four with an RBI for Saint
- 4:20Bede twenty three thirteen, while Drew Carboni went two for
- 4:23three and scored a run. Gino Ferrari was the losing
- 4:26pitcher as he allowed three runs, one earned on six hits,
- 4:30with five strikeouts and three walks in six and one
- 4:32third innings