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Lady Comets fall in nail-biter with Wilmington

Published by admin on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 4:04pm

by shawn long
staff writer
The Reed-Custer softball squad let a six-run lead slip away Tuesday to Wilmington after the Wildcats poured on the runs including an RBI single to win 8-7.
The Comets (7-9) fired the opening salvo in the second inning to take a 2-0 lead.
Calia Kmetz doubled to lead off the second. A few batters later, Hannah Coster drove her in with an RBI knock into right to make it 1-0. Meghan Faletti slapped home Sylvia Crater to make it 2-0.
The Comets put two more runs on the board in the fourth to go up 4-0.

Comets blast three home-runs en route to their win over Streator, eighth straight victory

Published by admin on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 4:01pm

by shawn long
staff writer
Josh Loomis and Nate Smith brought carried their big sticks to Monday’s baseball game against Streator.
The Reed-Custer seniors paced the Comets with home runs to earn their eighth straight win, 15-8 over the hosting Bulldogs.
Loomis went 4-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs.Smith blasted two home runs and drove in four runs while Trevor McLaughlin drove in four with a four-hit performance.
Max Lepper, Jarrett Goodwin and Noah Curl also drove in a run each.

Reed-Custer falls to Peotone off overtime kick

Published by admin on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 4:00pm

by shawn long
staff writer
The Reed-Custer girl soccer team gave Peotone all that the could handle on Wednesday, coming up shy 2-1 in double overtime.
“It was a hard fought, back and forth game,” said RC coach Kim Askew. “We had them and it just came down to penalty kicks.”
Reed-Custer freshman Alayna Valone knocked it through for a goal to give the Comets ta 1-0 lead in the first overtime period, getting the feed from teammate Lily Kilpatrick.

Seneca surprise stops the Lady Coalers after they swept Lisle

Published by admin on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 3:59pm

by shawn long
staff writer
Seneca scored enough runs in one inning to undo the Lady Coaler softball team on Monday, 7-4.
It was a pitching duel through the first three innings as it was Maci Baldauf for the Lady Coalers, who bent but didn’t break.
The Coalers (7-9) finally got through on Seneca’s Taya Roe for four runs in the fourth to take a 4-0 lead.
Madelaine Ragain laced a double to lead off the inning.

Coaler duo no-hits Seneca for three-game win streak

Published by admin on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 3:57pm

by shawn long
staff writer
On Monday, Payton Hutchings and Connor Best combined for a no-hitter over the Seneca Irish.
Hutchings (6-0, 0.90 ERA) started the game, going 3.0 innings, striking out six batters in a 14-0 victory. Best finished off the final six batters with zeroes in the scorebook and four out of the six went down on strikes.
And the offense gave the duo plenty of run support. The Coalers (17-2) grabbed a 4-0 lead in the first, started by Keegan Gagliardo with a one out single.zx

Lady Coalers win own shootout

Published by admin on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 3:56pm

The Coal City girls soccer team invited three other teams for a shootout on Saturday and the Lady Coalers ended up winning it all.
In their final game of the day, the Lady Coalers tied Peotone, 0-0.
Throughout the tournament, Helen Onsen, Syndi Bortles and Mackenzie Leach scored goals.
Brittny White, Onsen and Leach got named to the All-Tournament Team.
Coal City 2
Beecher 0
The Coalers kept it rolling along, getting two goals to pick up a win over Beecher.
Coal City 1
Princeton 0

Wildcats blank the Blue Devils

Published by admin on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 3:54pm

by shawn long
staff writer
Nolan Smith went the distance on the mound Monday to give the Wilmington baseball team a 4-0 win over Peotone.
Smith (1-0, 1.40 ERA) surrendered six hits while fanning three through seven innings.
The ‘Cats (9-8) scored four in the second inning to give him his run support.
Mark Youngquist doubled to lead off the second.
Justin Walinski hit a rope right back up the box to bring home Youngquist for the opening tally to this game, 1-0.

Lady ‘Cats rolling, pick up fourth straight win

Published by admin on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 3:52pm

by shawn long
staff writer
The Wilmington softball team improved to 13-2 Monday with a 2-1 win over Peotone.
The game was scoreless until the fourth inning, when the Blue Devils got a run.
The ‘Cats got the first of six hits in first inning but were unable to score, getting shutdown all the way until the seventh inning.
That’s when things started to click. Jordyn Reents singled to begin the threat with two outs in the seventh.

Wildcats fall to Comets despite seventh inning spark

Published by admin on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 4:52pm

by shawn long
staff writer
Untimely hitting and too many errors killed the Wildcats Monday in the baseball contest against Reed-Custer. And even though Wilmington grabbed the opening lead, it was the visiting Comets who won it 8-3 in the end.
The ‘Cats (8-5) grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Kyle Lewis was beamed with the fifth pitch of the game and gladly took his base to put a runner on.
Mark Youngquist followed that with a rocket single past the Comet shortstop, putting Lewis in scoring position with nobody out.

Lady ‘Cats stay hot, cage the Lions

Published by admin on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 4:50pm

by shawn long
staff writer
On Friday, the Lady ‘Cats came up victorious against Lisle after scoring early and often in a 9-2 final.
Wilmington (10-2) drew first blood, tallying three runs in the opening inning to take a 3-0 lead.
Bella Egizio reached on an error by the first basemen.
Michelle Gramlich stayed hot with a bunt single to put two runners on with nobody out for the club’s hottest hitter, Katie Kucharski, who was hitting over .570 to enter this game.