Schaumburg tops Palatine in wild one

Schaumburg and Palatine showed there will still be a few slugfests as they combined for 27 runs in Monday’s Mid-Suburban West baseball opener.

But the Saxons (8-5, 1-0) hung on for a 14-13 victory by making sure it didn’t give the visiting Pirates (4-11, 0-1) any extra help.

“It was a tough day with the sun and wind blowing hard to right field,” said Schaumburg coach Paul Groot. “I’m mostly proud of the fact we didn’t make an error on a tough day.”

Jack Holden hit a 2-run homer and Justin Charvat (2-for-4, 5 RBI) had a 2-run double in a 7-run third that put the Saxons ahead 12-5. Jordan Grubb (3-for-4, 2 RBI) and Thomas Byrne (2-for-5, 2 RBI) had back-to-back RBI triples in a 5-run second to erase a 4-0 deficit.

Palatine couldn’t overcome 7 errors despite Eric Scheuermann going 3-for-4 with 2 homers and 4 RBI and Nick Roy getting 2 hits, a homer and 5 RBI. Kurt Becker (4-for-5) had an RBI single and Scott Schneberger (2-for-5) had an RBI double with two out in the seventh but Matt Brancato ended it with a fly out to center.

Anthony Fortunato, Mike Czarnik and Jarrod Juskiewicz also had 2 hits for Palatine. Jeremy Hall drove in 2 runs for Schaumburg.

Barrington 7, Conant 3: Winer Frank Waliczek had 10 strikeouts in 5 1-3 innings and Ryan Lidge went 4-for-4 with a double and 2 RBI as visiting Barrington (9-3, 1-0) won its fourth straight in the MSL East opener. Dylan Balogh got out of a bases-loaded jam in the sixth en route to the save.

First baseman Justin Dragosz went 3-for-4 with an RBI, Chris Coco led off the game with a homer and Dylan Lidge had an RBI single. Dragosz also turned line drives into an unassisted double play and a double play at second base.

Zach Losch homered for Conant (4-5, 0-1).

Hoffman Estates 5, Fremd 3: A 3-run bottom of the fifth sent Hoffman (7-7, 1-0) to the MSL West win as Mark Roberts threw a complete-game. Ethan Bloom went 3-for-3, Mike Gordon (2-for-3) had a tiebreaking RBI single and Justin Frame followed with an RBI single off Fremd (7-5, 0-1) starter Jack Andersen (4-1).

Keith Browning went 3-for-4 and Zach Kolakowski went 2-for-4 for the Vikings but Roberts retired them on groundouts to leave two runners on in the sixth.

Rolling Meadows 16, Wheeling 0 (5 inn.): The Hendricks brothers did plenty of damage as visiting Meadows (8-3, 1-0) hit 5 homers in the 5-inning MSL East win. Matt Hendricks threw a 1-hitter with 5 strikeouts and no walks and homered and his brother Dan started a 10-run second inning with a solo homer and capped it with a grand slam.

Mike Olson and Eric Lowe also homered and Mickey Wazorick went 2-for-3 with 3 RBI as the Mustangs won their sixth straight. Wheeling (1-11, 0-1) junior Derek Espinoza broke up the no-hitter with a one-out single in the fifth.

Elk Grove 11, Buffalo Grove 1 (5 inn.): Leadoff man Jack Czeszewski went 4-for-4 with 3 RBI and had 2 of Elk Grove’s 7 doubles to lead a 16-hit attack in the 5-inning MSL East win. Cody Gustafson went 3-for-3 with 2 doubles and Michael Anciulis was 2-for-2 with 4 RBI.

Dan Guido threw a 3-hitter with 6 strikeouts and 2 walks as the Grenadiers (9-3, 1-0) won their fourth straight. Jake Monson went 2-for-2 with an RBI single for Buffalo Grove (5-9, 0-1).

St. Viator 11, New Trier 6: Cosimo Cannella homered, tripled and drove in 3 runs, Joe Rossi had 2 doubles and Roy Pettingill had 2 hits and 2 RBI for St. Viator (9-5) in the nonconference win at Duke Childs Field. Gunnar Kay got the victory and Bobby Napoleon finished for the save.