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Parkview Christian’s Christian Mulder fires 10-strikeout no-hitter in run-rule win over Yorkville Christian · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Park View Christians Christian Molder fires ten strikeout no hitter
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  Speaker 1: in run rule win over Yorkville Christian. Written by Joshua Weld,
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  Speaker 1: this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett Christian. Molder could be forgiven if
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  Speaker 1: he had flashbacks to how last season ended with the
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  Speaker 1: way Thursday's game started for him. Parkview Christian's senior right
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  Speaker 1: hander walked two of the first three Yorkville Christian batters
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  Speaker 1: he faced. Control issues contributed to Moulder not making it
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  Speaker 1: out of the second inning of a regional semifinal start
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  Speaker 1: last year against the same team, but this is a
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  Speaker 1: new year. Mulder, a Quinsy University commit, is one of
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  Speaker 1: nine starters back for a Falcons team with high aspirations.
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  Speaker 1: He showed why Thursday. Moulder struck out ten batters and
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  Speaker 1: a five inning no hitter and had three doubles at
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  Speaker 1: the plate. Landon Malkowski homered for Parkview Christian in a
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  Speaker 1: twelve zero win over Yorkville Christian at the Stuart Sports
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  Speaker 1: Complex in Aurora. Mulder got out of the early jam
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  Speaker 1: of his own making and allowed just one base runner
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  Speaker 1: over the last four innings. I just focused more on
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  Speaker 1: where I was hitting my spots, Mulder said, instead of
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  Speaker 1: leaving it a borderline call, I started throwing a lot
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  Speaker 1: more competitive pitches and that helped a lot. Mulder threw
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  Speaker 1: fifty one of his seventy nine pitches for strikes with
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  Speaker 1: a three pitch repertoire of a fastball, slider, and curveball.
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  Speaker 1: His fastball had a little ride to it. We threw
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  Speaker 1: it up, we threw it outside, we threw it inside.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't hit it. Parkview Christian senior catcher James Jefferson said,
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  Speaker 1: we were mixing in the slider. It was tumbling perfectly
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  Speaker 1: off of that fastball and they couldn't touch it. Curveball
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  Speaker 1: was working too, as a reset pitch. Parkview Christian coach
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Malkowski was proud of how Mulder responded against a
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  Speaker 1: familiar opponent and pointed to the connection Mulder and Jefferson
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  Speaker 1: have as pitcher and catcher. He started last year didn't
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  Speaker 1: go well. To come back with a no hitter is
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  Speaker 1: far better than I would have imagined, Malkowski said. Those
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  Speaker 1: two they have worked together for years, the relationship they have,
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  Speaker 1: and then figuring out early on, we're getting this pitch
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  Speaker 1: we're not getting this pitch. A lot of maturity from
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  Speaker 1: them as seniors, recognizing early on it takes a little
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  Speaker 1: pressure off. Mulder finished with a flourish striking out the
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  Speaker 1: last five batters he faced. It's awesome. I knew something
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  Speaker 1: was going on. Didn't know exactly how many more innings
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  Speaker 1: we were playing, Mulder said, But when I got close,
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  Speaker 1: I just focused on hitting my spots and going back
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  Speaker 1: to the inside corner with my fastball. The Falcons, ten
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  Speaker 1: to four, wasted no time, providing Mulder ample support. After
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  Speaker 1: Jefferson reached on an error with one out in the first,
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  Speaker 1: Mulder doubled in a run. Malflakowski followed with a two
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  Speaker 1: run homer to center. I've recently just been trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep it up the middle with my swing, Malkowski said.
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  Speaker 1: I've had issues staying along with my back swing. My
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  Speaker 1: coach and my dad has just been telling me to
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  Speaker 1: keep it up the middle opposite field and it will
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  Speaker 1: turn into a home run. And it did today. The
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  Speaker 1: Falcons capitalized on Yorkville Christian errors to add three more
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  Speaker 1: runs in the second and two in the third. Colin
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  Speaker 1: Moulder singled in a run and Christian Molder doubled in
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  Speaker 1: two more in the second, Krustoddacher and Joey Abels singled
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  Speaker 1: in runs in the third, Malkowski singled in a run
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  Speaker 1: and stole home with another in the fourth, and Griffin
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  Speaker 1: Glenn singled in two. We love to capitalize on opportunities
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  Speaker 1: we get landon, Malkowski said. We've all been playing together
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  Speaker 1: since we were fourteen years old. We have the chemistry
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  Speaker 1: of when to knock people in, when to steal runs.
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  Speaker 1: The inexperience of Yorkville Christian three five to one, on
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  Speaker 1: the contrary, showed with the physical errors and also mental mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: We're so new at so many different places. The last
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  Speaker 1: time we played these guys in regionals last year, only
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  Speaker 1: one guy was in the exact passe as he was today.
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  Speaker 1: Yorkville Christian coach Sean Biderman said, we had at one
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  Speaker 1: point six juniors and a freshman on the field right now,
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  Speaker 1: so there's going to be some learning. What I'm more
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  Speaker 1: concerned with is getting our mindset right and understanding where
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  Speaker 1: our assignments are. That's a good baseball team. They took
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  Speaker 1: advantage of everything we gave them. Spider Mainsen said, the
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  Speaker 1: goal is to improve to put themselves where they need
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  Speaker 1: to be for the playoffs. Parkview Christian in its own way,
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  Speaker 1: is building toward that as well. With a strong, experienced roster.
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  Speaker 1: The Falcons loaded up their schedule with two A and
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  Speaker 1: three A clubs like Saint Francis, Cole City, Bishop McNamara
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  Speaker 1: and Timothy Christian. I think they can handle it, coach
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  Speaker 1: Malkowski said, we know we have the talent for this group.
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  Speaker 1: The talent is the floor. It's our chemistry, our character
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  Speaker 1: and our intangibles that will take us further than last year.
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  Speaker 1: When we play good baseball, we're hard to beat.