Baseball: Priester's 1-hitter leads Cary-Grove over Jacobs
Quinn Priester fired a 1-hitter with 11 strikeouts and 1 walk Tuesday as Cary-Grove defeated Jacobs 5-1 in a Fox Valley Conference baseball game.
Tommy Neilsen had 2 hits with a double, home run and 2 RBI to lead the offense for the Trojans (15-7, 10-6). Justin Trausch added a triple and an RBI for C-G while Ben Levicki also drove in a run.
Daniel Klein had a triple for Jacobs (13-9, 5-8).
Huntley 10, Hampshire 0: Kyle Morgan threw a 1-hitter with 2 strikeouts and 1 walk, and Huntley (19-4, 10-2) played errorless defense to win this FVC game. Brad Model (2 hits, RBI), Jeff Heinrich (RBI), Matt Rodriguez (2 hits), Noah Konie (2B, 2 RBI), Tyler Koss (2 hits, 4 RBI) and Joe Boland (RBI) led the Red Raiders' offense. Hampshire slipped to 7-14-1, 2-12 with the loss.
CL South 14, CL Central 6: Brian Fuentes (2B, 3 RBI) and Michael Swiatly (3B, 3 RBI) had 3 hits each as Crystal Lake South (21-1, 12-1) stayed atop the FVC with this win. Also contributing for the Gators were Griffin Bright (2 hits), Ryan Parquette (RBI), Noah Tyrell (2 doubles, 2 RBI), Scott Skwarek (2B, 2 RBI) and Brent Chubb (2B, RBI). Mark Paul picked up the win on the mound with 4 innings of relief.
Geneva 7, Batavia 4: Garrett Bragg (RBI), Jack Olson (RBI) and Jason Peruba (3 RBI) each had doubles for Genevas (14-7, 12-4) in this Upstate Eight River win. Matthew Evert earned the win in relief. Quinn O'Brien tripled and John Lemon (3 RBI) doubled for Batavia (4-11, 2-8).
St. Charles North 11, Elgin 0: Sam Faith had 2 hits with a double and 4 RBI and Tommy Nelsen added 2 hits with a double and 2 RBI for the North Stars (19-2, 14-1) in this UEC River win. Connor Bizik added a double for SCN. Starting pitcher Westin Muir went 3 innings without allowing a hit, striking out 6 and walking 1 to earn the win. JC Fortmann and Cameron Jackson had hits for Elgin (4-16, 2-9).
Burlington Central 13, Woodstock North 3: Caden Scott had 3 doubles and 4 RBI as the Rockets (18-3, 8-0) rolled to a Kishwaukee River win. David Lauber (2 hits), Ryan Knowlton (2B, RBI), Paddy McKermitt (RBI), Zach Schutta (2 hits, RBI) and Cade King (2B, RBI) added to the offense for BC. Lauber was the winning pitcher, going 5 innings and allowing 5 hits with 5 strikeouts and no walks.
ACC 4, ICCP 2: Jimmy Laurenti allowed just 3 hits with 4 strikeouts and 2 walks as Aurora Central (15-7-1, 5-3) won this Metro Suburban game. Johnny Belskis had 2 hits for the Chargers.
Alden-Hebron 6, Harvest Christian 2: Joey Pepper and Zach Pawelek each had 2 hits for Harvest (19-5, 8-2) in this Northeastern Athletic Conference loss.
Elgin Academy 22, Berian Christian 0: Jonathan Cruz had 4 hits and Jordan Hare drove in 4 runs for Elgin Academy (15-3) in nonconference action. Eddie Joyce, who homered, was the winning pitcher.