In high school baseball, El Paso-Gridley routed Woodland-Flanagan-Cornell, 18-7. Nathan Lavender and Kyler Edelman both homered and drove in five runs in the five-inning win. Ridgeview routed, Dee-Mack 26-1, in a five-inning contest at Colfax. Griffin Noe homered and drove in four runs on four hits for the Mustangs. Fisher overcame Lexington, 8-6. Fieldcrest fell to Tremont, 8-1.
In softball, Woodland-Flanagan-Cornell crushed host El Paso-Gridley, 17-2. It was Dwight over Momence, 9-2. Fisher doubled up Lexington, 14-7. Prairie Central fell to Lincoln, 2-1, as a base loaded walk forced in the winning run. Eureka nipped Fieldcrest, 1-0.
At the Illini Prairie Conference meet at St. Joseph Ogden, Pontiac came in fifth place for the boys, Prairie Central second while Tolono Unity was the winner. Pontiac’s Cameron Dawson won the long jump and triple jump, while teammate Steven Lewis won the discus. Pontiac set 18 personal records.
For the girls, Monticello was tops, with Pontiac taking eighth and Prairie Central finishing 10th.
Host Eureka swept the boys and girls McLean County Heart of Illinois track meet. On the boys side Ridgeview game in second, El Paso-Gridley third. Ridgeview’s Mason Barr won three events; the 110-meter hurdles with a school record time of 14.74 seconds, plus the 300 intermediate hurdles and was part of the winning 800 relay. EPG was second for the girls.
Matt Carpenter’s ninth inning homerun tied it, then Yadier Molina’s walkoff single won it for the Cardinals, 3-2, over the Chicago White Sox.
Both the Colorado Rockies and the Chicago Cubs started their first at bats with homeruns, but the Rox added two more against Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks to lead Colorado to a 3-1 win at Wrigley Field, snapping the Cubs’ five-game winning streak.
Illinois State’s Owen Miller stretched his hitting streak to 16 games with a 3-for-4 day in the Redbirds’ 5-3 win at Milwaukee.
