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50 | May 4, 2017 | The orland park prairie sports opprairie.com Baseball Eagles encounter game Griffins in both Frankfort, Orland Park Frank Gogola Freelance Reporter Lincoln-Way East senior Joe Prestamer knows he does not have the quickest fastball. So, he has put trust in his off-speed pitches this season. He looked to those offspeed pitches again to help East escape a late-game, bases-loaded jam and end Sandburg’s best chance of staging a comeback in a recent conference victory. “I’m not really going to blow fastballs by guys too much,” Prestamer said. “So, I rely on keeping guys off balance. My off-speed pitches were getting mainly pop-ups, getting guys to roll over and out ahead — so just attack the zone like any other batter and trust my field to step on a base if we have to.” Prestamer gave up one run over six innings, and his offense took advantage of walks, as East beat Sandburg 3-1 Thursday, April 27, in Orland Park. The win was the second in three days for East over the defending SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue champs. Leading 3-1 with two outs in the fifth, Prestamer used his curveball to get Ryan Hampe to pop out in front of home plate with the bases loaded. After bouncing two off-speed pitches to turn an 0-2 count into a 2-2 count, he put a curveball over the plate and got Hampe to swing underneath the it. Prestamer had loaded the bases with a two-out walk and hit-by-pitch, but East coach Paul Babcock had trust in him to get the final out. “No thought of taking him out in that situation,” Babcock said. “Joe’s the man. He’s who I’m going to have out there in that spot, no doubt in my mind.” The Eagles managed just one run across the 14 innings against East. In the second game, they had four hits, three walks and one hit-by-pitch, but they left seven runners on base. The Griffins got enough offense without catcher and cleanup hitter Jimmy Quinn (sick), who homered in the first meeting. They had six walks and five hits — only one extra-base hit — and all three of their runs were walks that came around to score against pitcher Evan Tenuta. “We’re not getting it done offensively,” Sandburg coach Jim Morsovillo said. “We swung better today, hit the ball harder, but everything we hit was right at them. We got some hits, got some guys on, but didn’t get the big hit. And we walked guys who came around to score. You can’t do that and win baseball games.” Sandburg (10-4, 2-2) dropped its second game in three days after only losing twice in its first 12 games. It lost 8-0 Tuesday, April 25, in Frankfort, against pitcher Danny Zimmerman. “Last game, [Zimmerman] really filled it up and competed,” Morsovillo said. “This game, [Prestamer] made more mistakes over the middle of the plate, but we didn’t make him pay.” The wins over Sandburg added to the Griffins’ (8-10, 3-1) resurgence. They have gone 7-2 after starting 1-8. “I’m not trying to sound cocky, but with these guys the past two games, that’s what I expect,” Babcock said. “I did not expect how we started the season. When these guys play the way Sandburg catcher Ryan Hampe (left) gets ready to throw the ball Thursday, April 27, after making sure Lincoln-Way East’s Jake Arthur is out at home during a game in Orland Park. Photos by Julie McMann/22nd Century Media Sandburg’s A.J. Poda connects with one against Lincoln- Way East pitcher Joe Prestamer. they can, good things can happen.” East struck first when Brett Melby drove in Dan Zimmerman with a two-out RBI single in the top of the first. Mike Wallace drew a bases-loaded walk in the second, pushing pinch runner Jacob Slager across the plate to put East up 2-1. It was the third walk of the inning surrendered by Tenuta. Wallace scored from first base on a Zimmerman Sandburg’s Evan Tenuta releases a ball toward home plate against the Griffins. double to the right-center field gap in the fifth to make East’s lead 3-1. Hampe drove in Sandburg’s lone run on a onehopper off the left-center field wall. His hit scored Seth Masters and tied the game 1-1 in the bottom of the first. Nick Tortorici earned the save with a 1-2-3 seventh inning. Tenuta took the loss, surrendering three runs on three hits and six walks in five innings.
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