Meadows’ Lowe just misses no-hitter
Rolling Meadows junior Eric Lowe made the right pitch to complete his bid for a no-hitter in Tuesday’s nonconference baseball game with Maine East.
The only thing wrong with the two-out groundball was it was hit in the wrong spot in the hole between shortstop and third base. Kyle Krzeski tried to make the play but the runner beat the throw for the only hit off Lowe in Meadows’ 10-2 victory.
Lowe came out after throwing 103 pitches in 6 innings with 13 strikeouts and 4 walks. One of Maine East’s 2 seventh-inning runs was unearned.
“I was sad to see it go but he didn’t seem to upset by it,” Meadows coach Jim Lindeman said of what he scored as an infield single. “He had pretty good stuff and threw the ball well. What plays needed to be made we made for him.
“It was a good opening start for him.”
Tyler Gaedele drove in 3 runs, Kevin Cwynar had 2 RBI and Matt Hendricks, Joe Kropp and Matt Dennis also had RBI for Meadows.
Hendricks also had an impressive start Monday against York in a 4-4 game called after nine innings because of darkness.
Hendricks allowed only 1 hit and had 11 strikeouts in 7 innings in a game that was tied 1-1 through eight innings.
Elk Grove 5, St. Viator 4: A drama-filled seventh inning saw Elk Grove (2-2) come away with the nonconference win at St. Viator on Ryan Martinski’s two-out RBI single.
Elk Grove trailed 4-3 when sophomore Luc Dimaso tripled with one out. Carl Sugihara lined out to second base but Dimaso scored the tying runs on a wild pitch.
Jack Czeszewski walked, stoled second and scored on Martinski’s single. Viator loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the seventh but winner Pat Guido struck out the final two hitters.
Ryan Daubenspeck and Justin Arguelles had 2 hits apiece for Elk Grove, which hosts Viator in a rematch at 4:30 p.m. today.
Prospect 10, Lake Park 4: Junior Jack Landwehr improved to 2-0 with 3 strikeouts in 4 innings and also went 2-for-4 for Prospect. Steve Dazzo went 3-for-4 and Anthony Charnota had a 2-run single.
Huntley 2, Barrington 1: Barrington fell short to last year’s Class 4A fourth-place finisher even though it out-hit Huntley 8-6. Greg Gerrard was the tough-luck loser as he allowed only 2 hits and 1 earned run in 4 innings and had 7 strikeouts.
Ricky Alfonso and Jack Kurcab went 2-for-3 for the Broncos.
WW South 7, Palatine 1: Palatine (1-3) made a first-inning run hold up until Wheaton Warrenville South erupted for 7 runs in the top of the sixth inning.
Kurt Becker started and pitched 4 hitless innings with 5 strikeouts and 1 walk and Alex Miramontes threw a scoreless inning with 2 strikeouts for Palatine. Cody Bobbit had 2 of the 4 hits and Joe Walsh drove in the only run.