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54 | April 20, 2017 | The Mokena Messenger SPORTS mokenamessenger.com Knights minimize Vikings’ offense with pitching, defense Tim Carroll, Editor walks, and one of them came around to score in the second Old adages are often clever, but they are not always to after a balk sent him to second and a stolen base-passed be accepted as truth. ball combination allowed There is, however, generally at least a kernel of accura- him to reach the plate. Still, Davis (4 innings, 5 cy in them. For instance, the strikeouts, 2 hits and 3 runs) truth in the adage about good minimized the damage from pitching beating good hitting was on full display April 11 the free passes. in Lincoln-Way Central’s Davis had a bit of trouble victory over Homewoodin the fourth inning, during Flossmoor. Not in every atbat, but more often than not. two hits of the game. which he gave up his only The Knights (5-2) defeated the Vikings (5-4) 6-3 Salley led off the fourth in- Vikings center fielder Kyle in a matchup of SouthWest ning with a swinging-bunt infield single, and that brought Suburban Conference competitors. cleanup hitter Zaid Walker Lefty Knights starter Nate Soccer to the • Lacrosse plate. Walker • Baseball worked Davis was on from the beginning. He kept Homewood- Futsal bomb • to Batting straightaway Cages center. Softball the • count Basketball full before • Volleyball hitting a Flossmoor without a hit for The hits seemed not to the first three innings of faze Davis at all, though. He play, though he allowed four struck Full Concessions out the next three bat- SPEED, AGILITY, QUICKNESS AND STRENGTH TRAINING ters he faced. “[Davis] got touched up for a home run, [but Walker] is an unbelievable hitter, so I was really impressed with our pitchers today,” Central head coach Mitch Nowicki said after the game. Also pitching for the Knights was Devin Smith (3 inning pitched, 6 strikeouts, no hits and no runs allowed), came into the game in the fifth. He allowed just one baserunner on an intentional walk, which was sandwiched between two strikeouts. “Both guys were very prepared to pitch,” Nowicki said. The rest of the game was not as pretty as the pitching was. An errant Davis pickoff attempt in the first allowed Salley two bases, and a throwing error by catcher Dylan Post allowed a runner to advance in the third, but none of the mistakes — with the exception of the passed ball in the second — led to a Vikings run scoring. “It was like both ends of baseball,” Nowicki said. “[There were] some really good plays made, some really good offensive at-bats. Then, there was a lot of ugly. We were able to make a couple more plays than they did in those kind of chaotic situations, where guys were taking extra bases [and] there were plays at the plate.” The Knights created chaotic situations by being aggressive on the basepaths. In the bottom of the sixth, Central senior left fielder Cam Post reached base on a Lincoln-Way Central catcher Dylan Post tags out Homewood-Flossmoor’s Tylon Ross at home to prevent a run April 11 during a game between the two teams in New Lenox. Julie McMann/22nd Century Media leadoff walk and moved to second on a wild pitch. He then attempted to steal third, and the ball got away from H-F catcher Jacob Schroeder. Cam Post rounded third and attempted to score, reaching the plate just ahead of the pitcher’s tag. 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mokenamessenger.com SPORTS the Mokena Messenger | April 20, 2017 | 55 fastbreak Softball Knights’ five-run fifth inning leads to comeback win Jeff Vorva Freelance Reporter 22nd Century Media File Photo 1st-and-3 Making a splash 1. Nicole McCabe (above) Lincoln-Way Central’s leading scorer had five goals against her old school, Lincoln- Way East, including one to break a 7-7 tie with three minutes remaining to help lead the Knights to victory. 2. Megan Cales Cales combined with McCabe to make sure that the Knights were in a position to get the win over East. Cales scored with 2 minutes and 29 seconds left in the third to begin the Knights’ comeback. 3. Goalies The Knights combo of Claire Connors and Erin Kay and East goalie Kaylie Pollard did their part to keep their teams within striking distance. After having seven games canceled due to the weather early in the season, Lincoln- Way Central’s softball team finally had a string of three games in three days, and the bats were in a groove. The Knights are hoping to become one of the state’s elite teams. They outscored three opponents by a combined score of 30-4 from April 11-13, including a 7-3 victory over Andrew in a Thursday, April 13 night game. That SouthWest Suburban Conference Red game was originally set for Good Friday at Andrew, but officials had problems finding umpires, so a Thursday night contest in New Lenox was the alternate solution. Andrew came into the game with a 5-5 mark but had some steam, scoring a combined 19 runs in a pair of previous wins over Homewood- Flossmoor and Bolingbrook. As a matter of fact, The T-Bolts were sitting pretty with a 3-2 lead heading into the bottom of the fifth, but the Knights scored five runs in the fifth, including three from a 200-foot home run from junior third baseman Kamryn Murphy that barely cleared the left-field fence. “I didn’t think it was going to go over,” she said while raking the third-base line minutes after the game. “The coaches said if the first Lincoln-Way Central’s Colleen Barrett lays down a bunt Thursday, April 13, during a home night game against Andrew. Jeff Vorva/22nd Century Media pitch is there, swing as hard as I can, and I listened. It was probably the most intense home run I’ve hit.” “She will be the first to tell you that she hasn’t been hitting the ball the way she wants to this year,” Knights coach Jeff Tarala said. “She has hit a lot of balls hard, but at someone. I call softball a game of injustices. You can hit the ball hard 500 times and make 500 outs. “But we saw a little peek at what she could do with that home run.” The Knights improved to 8-2 overall and 2-0 in the conference with the win. “We’ve been doing really well as a team because it’s a new team,” said Murphy, who transferred from Lincoln-Way East. “We’ve either been on or off, but we’re doing pretty well so far.” Andrew coach Matt Fish is hoping to put together a run similar to Central’s. “We knew the top half of our schedule was going to be tough,” Fish said. “We played Lockport twice and Marist, and we’ve been right there. It’s an inning or a play here or play there, and we knew that going into the season we were going to have to be fundamentally sound. If you give a good team an opportunity, they will take advantage. “Eventually those wins will come.” Maggie Bailey, Hannah Mayo and Alyssa Mac- Trinder drove in runs for the T-Bolts. The game also featured an intense second-inning dual between Andrew hurler Josie Magnabosco and Knights leadoff hitter Gabriella Gedville. Gedville fouled off numerous pitches before taking Magnabosco’s 17th pitch in the at-bat up the middle to drive in a run to put her team up 2-0. The next time the two faced each other was with the bases loaded in the fourth, and Gedville lined out to Magnabosco on the first pitch. Sophomore Amanda Weyh picked up the win in relief for Knights starting pitcher Marina Esparza, who gave up three unearned runs in 3 2/3 innings. “Marina showed character – it could have been a lot worse, it could have been six runs,” Tarala said. “Amanda has been lights out for us all year. She shut the door. It’s a nice luxury two have two pitchers like this.’” Listen Up “Some of the girls on East were my best friends. It was definitely tough to play them, especially when you know their skill sets.” Caroline Heathcock – Lincoln-Way Central water polo player, on playing against Lincoln-Way East and her former teammates TUNE IN Boys Volleyball 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25 • The Knights will have a stiff test hosting Sandburg, a team that made it to the state playoffs last season. Index 49 – High School Highlights 48 – Athlete of the Week FASTBREAK is compiled by Editor Tim Carroll, tim@moke namessenger.com.
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