RED DEVILS VARSITY 2005 GAME SUMMARY

Fri., April 29
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Oak Park River Forest
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Hinsdale Central
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WOW!!! WHAT A GAME!!!

Hinsdale Central surged to a come from behind victory before a packed house of 75 students and 15 major league scouts who expected to see Texas signee Tim Dennehy dominate. What they saw was a honey of a ball game featuring spectacular defense, hard hitting, controversy and a gutty performance by the surging Red Devils.

It looked like the gloomy weather in the first when the first four Huskies hit the ball hard and had scored two with runners on second and third with only one out when Connor Lind went deep into the hole, made a backhand stab and fired to third baseman Dan Portschy who trapped the startled Huskie for the second out. Garrett Sosnovich fired a strike to second to collar a stealing Huskie and limit the damage to 3.

Lind greeted Dennehy with a sharp single to right, moved up when Dustin Reznicek coaxed a walk,and scored on Garrett Sosnovich's ball to the right side. Rez scored on a wild pitch and Sos came in on Andrew Nicholas' grounder.

Hinsdale took the lead in the second when the Huskie third baseman ole'd Mark Noth's sharp grounder, advanced to second on Colin Cook's perfect sac bunt and scampered home on Lind's rbi single up the middle.

Doug Pilcher settled down and was high fiving his defense as Nicholas, Lind and Cook turned two to get a speedy Huskie to close out the second. Reznicek got a great jump on a ball in the gap, leaping over a diving Chad Bisnette snaring a sure double tumbling to the ground, and holding the ball aloft to end the fourth. Another 4-6-3 double play ended the fifth.

After a walk to open the sixth, it looked like the Red Devils keystone combo had turned another double play, but the Huskie baserunner A-Rodded the ball. Coach Dorrance appealed to no avail and the next hitter singled to put runners on second and third. Eric Binder relieved Pilcher who left to loud applause and limited the Huskies to 1 run while striking out the first hitter and cheering when Portschy completed a patented "Portschy Charger" on a slow roller to hold the Huskies in check.

With the game tied, Nicholas opened the sixth with a single followed by a Portschy walk bringing Mark Noth to the plate. Falling behind with 2 strikes Noth hammered 2 foul balls but "Markered" the next pitch over the centerfield scoreboard touching off a mob scene at home plate and roars from the crowd.

The E Unit retired the side quickly in the seventh to get the win and sent the fans and players home drained but happy and the scouts wondering who they should have been watching.

GO RED DEVILS

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