Barrington grad Marshall starring in TCU closer role

One of the biggest starts of Eric Marshall's baseball career ended with a supersectional no-hitter and led to a third-place finish in the Class AA state tournament for Barrington.

Marshall is now closing games for Texas Christian University, which is ranked 15th in the country. And one of the games he finished this year was a no-hitter against Texas-Pan American in April.

Marshall is 1-2 with 6 saves and a 1.23 ERA in 17 appearances. The right-hander has 15 strikeouts and only 3 walks in 22 innings.

Marshall was also named The Mountain West Conference Pitcher of the Week recently with 3 saves in as many appearances. He was also named the West region national player of the week by College Baseball Insider.

Not bad considering Marshall had elbow surgery in mid-November and was limited to 1 appearance in 2007 because of an elbow injury.

• Aurora University senior catcher Ray Kosmicki III (Schaumburg) was named the Northern Athletics Conference hitter of the week.

Kosmicki led the Spartans to a 5-1 week and their first appearance in the NAC baseball tournament, in the third season of the league. He hit .625 with 3 homers, 7 RBI and 11 runs, was hit by 4 pitches and stole 2 bases.

Kosmicki is hitting a team-high .411 with 10 doubles, 5 homers, 33 RBI, 29 runs, 14 walks, 11 hit by pitches, a .674 slugging percentage, .525 on base percentage and 10 stolen bases.

• Carthage junior Trace Ruffie (Hersey) was the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin pitcher of the week. Ruffie went 1-0 in two conference starts with a 1.29 ERA, 10 hits and 3 walks in 14 innings.

• Scott Kelley (Hersey) is 4-4 with a 4.97 ERA in 16 appearances (8 starts) at Penn State. Kelley had 35 strikeouts in 502/3 innings.

• Chad Rebecca (Prospect) is starting at third base for Stony Brook University (N.Y.) and is hitting .263 with 13 RBI.

• Zach Scipione (Conant) went 3-for-5 with 5 RBI in a doubleheader sweep for Judson as it set the school record for wins at 29.

• In the final week of his freshman season at Goshen College (Ind.), Garrett Cannizzo (Rolling Meadows) hit .524 (11-for-21) with 2 walks, a double, 2 homers and 6 RBI.

• Senior center fielder Kyle Schmitt (Fremd) is the leading hitter (.429) for the University of Chicago (13-10). He also leads the team in runs scored (26) and RBI (24).

Golf

Carthage senior Tyler Wollberg (Mundelein) was one of five individuals selected to participate in the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship on May 13-16 in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Wollberg has a team-leading 73.1 season average and tied for 15th place at last year's national tourney.

• Joe Emerich (Palatine) was one of four Illinois State golfers selected to the Missouri Valley All-Conference team. Emerich finished 16th in the MVC tournament as the Redbirds finished second and went 29-1-1 against conference opponents.

Softball

Augustana junior third baseman Karlee Quaritsch (Palatine) was a repeat first-team all-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin selection.

Quaritsch hit .358 and led the Vikings in homers (9) and RBI (38) and had 9 doubles and 9 stolen bases as they finished 28-14 overall and third in the CCIW at 9-5.

• Junior third baseman Kathleen Duffy (Barrington) ranks seventh in Division III in doubles per game (0.50) through games of Apr. 26. She finished the year as the Maroons leader in batting (.402), RBIs (19) and runs scored (16).

• Memphis sophomore Kailey Kassner (Conant) had one of the "notable performances" in Conference USA for the week of April 20-26 as she was 4-for-8, homered and had an RBI in every game against Central Florida.

Track and field

Junior Kris Gehrke (Wauconda) had an interesting weekend in leading the Eastern Illinois men's team to an Ohio Valley Conference championship.

Gehrke finished first in the 400-meter hurdles in 52.09 seconds. The time is ninth in Eastern Illinois history and qualified him for the Midwestern Region championships at the end of the month in Arkansas.

Gehrke also took second in the high jump at 6 feet, 8 inches.

• Sophomore Mike Spain (Schaumburg) went the distance to help North Central win its 24th CCIW outdoor title in 25 years. Spain won the 5,000 (14:52.76) and was second in the 10,000 (30:58.36).

Pole vaulter John Wood (Fremd) cleared 16 feet to finish second and improve his provisional qualifying mark for the national meet.

• Junior Max Petersen (Mundelein) took both the 100 and 200 to become the first Augustana runner to win both

sprint events in the CCIW meet since. Petersen ran 10.97 in the 100 and 22.42 in the 200.

• Junior Bill Cheng (Wauconda) finished second for the University of Chicago in the 100 (11.11) and was part of the Maroons' second-place 400 relay (42.00) at the 2009 University Athletic Association Outdoor Track & Field Championship.

Swimming

Capping four years of Big Ten competition, Heather Kiluk (Libertyville) was named Swimmer of the Year at Michigan State for the second consecutive year. Kiluk, an NCAA Division I qualifier, All-American/Academic All-American, and Big Ten finalist, holds 3 university records (200 IM, 400 IM, & leadoff in 800 free relay) and seven top 10 fastest times in MSU history.

Kiluk led the 2008-09 season with the fastest individual times in the 200 IM, 400 IM and 100, 500 & 1,000 freestyles.

Football

Elk Grove will host its second annual golf outing Friday, Aug. 7 at 1 p.m. at Fox Run Golf Links. It is a shotgun event with prizes and raffles with dinner after golf.

Proceeds benefit all levels of the Elk Grove football program. For more information and to register go to: www.golfdigestplanner.com/11482-eghsfballgolfouting/.

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