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posted
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May
18,
2010
22:31
By
Sean
Duncan
HINSDALE
–
Oak
Park-River
Forest
was
still
a
little
chapped
when
it
arrived
at
Hinsdale
Central
on
Tuesday.
The
Huskies
had
gotten
swept
in
Saturday’s
doubleheader,
which
effectively
dashed
their
West
Suburban
Conference
championship
hopes.
Hinsdale
Central,
on
the
other
hand,
had
climbed
right
back
in
the
race
with
the
victories,
and
in
fact
needed
to
complete
the
three-game
sweep
to
earn
a
share
of
the
conference
crown
with
Lyons
Township.
That
didn’t
happen.
Oak
Park
took
out
its
frustrations
by
hammering
Hinsdale
Central
14-3
in
the
final
conference
game
of
the
season.
Lyons
Township
won’t
need
to
split
the
shiny
trophy
in
half.
“It
was
important
for
us
to
take
it
away
from
them
because
we
gave
it
away
on
Saturday,”
said
junior
third
baseman
Tim
Sutton.
Sutton,
who
recently
came
back
from
a
broken
nose,
enjoyed
a
day
to
remember.
The
5-foot-11,
180-pounder
drilled
a
pair
of
three-run
homers
in
the
second
and
seventh
innings,
and
finished
3-for-3
with
seven
RBI.
“It
was
awesome,”
Sutton
said.
“I
was
seeing
the
ball
really
well
and
got
a
couple
good
pitches
to
hit.
… It
would’ve
been
nice
to
win
the
championship,
but
it’s
important
for
us
to
play
good
baseball
heading
into
the
playoffs
and
make
a
run.”
Sutton
wasn’t
the
only
offensive
catalyst
for
the
Huskies
(23-10-1,
11-7),
who
scored
10
runs
in
the
first
three
innings.
Right
fielder
Andrew
Godbold,
an
athletic
6-foot-3,
225-pound
unsigned
senior,
went
3-for-3
with
two
solo
homers,
a
double,
a
walk
and
three
runs
scored.
Both
of
Godbold’s
homers
came
in
the
same
inning
of
Sutton’s.
“We
were
mad
about
our
performance
on
Saturday,”
said
Godbold.
“That
wasn’t
Oak
Park
baseball,
and
we
weren’t
proud
of
it.
…
Coach
told
me
to
relax
at
the
plate
and
be
free
and
easy
–
and
it
worked.”
The
run
support
was
more
than
enough
for
junior
Will
Polley
(8-1),
who
allowed
eight
hits,
struck
out
seven
and
walked
three
in
six
innings
work.
The
strong
6-foot-4,
225-pound
right-hander’s
fastball
consistently
sat
at
84-86
mph
throughout
the
game.
“I
thought
our
plate
approach
was
really
good
today,”
said
Oak
Park
coach
Chris
Ledbetter,
whose
team
fell
to
Hinsdale
Central
5-3
and
5-3
on
Saturday.
“I
was
real
happy
to
see
the
way
Tim
Sutton
swung
the
bat.”
Hinsdale
Central
(16-13,
11-7),
which
entered
the
game
having
won
eight
of
its
last
nine
conference
games
to
climb
back
in
to
the
race,
was
led
by
Illinois
State-bound
junior
second
baseman
Matt
Anderson’s
two
hits
and
two
RBI.
Alex
Tufano
added
two
hits
for
the
Red
Devils.
