Crimsons tops Quincy, Taylorville's Pembroke throws gem | Top performers

Here are the top high school performers (minus postseason softball) around Springfield for May 18-23, based on submissions from coaches, statisticians, and results found on GameChanger.

If your team’s games aren’t listed here, please ask your coach to submit stats to us after each game by emailing The State Journal-Register’s sports department at sports@sj-r.com.

Saturday, May 23 

BASEBALL 

Game of the Day 

Jacksonville 8, Quincy 7 (9 innings) 

Bentley Lagergren hit a go-ahead single that scored Jack Rohlk in the top of the ninth inning as the Crimsons won in extras.  

Jacksonville (25-7) led 7-5 going into the bottom of the seventh, but Quincy sent the game into extra innings on RBI singles by James Day and Drake Gibson. The Blue Devils battled back from a 7-1 deficit.  

Jacksonville’s Joe Reif doubled and finished with two RBIs, and AJ Charpentier got a no-decision after allowing one unearned run on two hits to go with six strikeouts and three walks in four innings. He went 2-for-5 with a double and scored a run.  

Nolan Peters hurled four relief innings for the win and Ryan Headen pitched a scoreless ninth inning. Ethan Cruzan (1-for-3) drove in a run, scored twice and walked twice. 

Taylorville 1, Normal West 0 

With one on and two outs, senior Maxx Grieme hit a line-drive double to score Fallon Turner from second as the Tornadoes scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh.  

Turner led off the inning with a ground-ball single to left field and he moved to second on a wild pitch. But the next two batters were unable to get Turner closer to scoring before Grieme swung at the first pitch of his at-bat and drove it to left field, which allowed Turner to score.  

It was a satisfying way for Kason Pembroke to preserve the complete-game shutout. The Tornadoes’ pitcher struck out two and scattered three hits with two walks. Taylorville’s Grayden Hughes was 2-for-3 as the Tornadoes moved to 13-13.  

Stars of the Day 

Cameron Murphy/Quinten Hale/Cole Woodward, Chatham Glenwood: The trio combined on a four-hit shutout with five strikeouts and one walk in Glenwood’s 5-0 win over Granite City. Murphy was the winner, striking out two in three innings, and Hale and Woodward each threw two innings. Dylan Huff (2-for-3, run) doubled and had an RBI triple, and Michael Lucas (2-for-3, run) doubled in a run. Grady Mueller (2-for-3) supplied a run-scoring triple. 

Wyatt Patton/Carson Thomas, Williamsville: The duo combined on a three-hit shutout as Williamsville defeated Lincoln 2-0. Patton, the winner, allowed one hit in five innings with four strikeouts and five walks, while Thomas yielded two hits in two innings with one strikeout. Gage Ratliff had an RBI triple in the first, and Brenton Trickey (2-for-4) singled in a run in the fifth. 

Austin Rutter, Sacred Heart-Griffin: Rutter (3-for-4, three RBIs) delivered a two-run walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh inning as SHG recorded a 6-5 win over Dunlap. Drew Ward doubled twice, drove in a run and scored two runs, while Dylan Clow hit a solo home run. In SHG’s first game, Glen Carbon Father McGivney rallied from a one-run deficit and scored three runs in the top of the seventh to beat the Cyclones 5-3. Ty Springer had two hits with an RBI. 

Austin Dunphy, Southeast: The first baseman had a pair of hits with a double, two RBIs and two runs scored in Southeast’s 11-1, five-inning win over Kankakee. Caden Van De Velde pitched one scoreless inning and had a hit and drove in two runs. Winning pitcher Donnie Marcum surrendered four hits and one earned run with five strikeouts and two walks in four innings of work. 

Gavin Greer/Corbin Miller, Pawnee: Greer struck out six, walked none and threw a four-hitter as Pawnee defeated 32-win Ottawa Marquette 5-1. Miller hit a solo home run, and Hudson Wort and Torsten Polistina each had an RBI single. Before the game, the field was dedicated to longtime Pawnee coach Chris Hennemann.  

Braylen Brown, Staunton: The University of Cincinnati-bound junior pitcher struck out 10 and was charged with an unearned run without allowing a hit in Staunton’s 13-1 win over Belleville East in five innings. Brown walked three in 4 2/3 innings. Matt Overby, Lucas Coalson and Ashton Rizzi all had two RBIs each. Logan Tuetken stole three bases. 

Dalton Glisson, Pleasant Plains: The Cardinals’ No. 9 hitter gave Plains a 2-for-3, one double and three RBI performance as Pleasant Plains defeated Carthage Illini West 13-2 in five innings. In the Cardinals’ second game, Max Johnson was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Andrew Potthoff doubled, but Plains stranded the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth in a 3-2 loss to Dunlap.  

Preston Cowan, Mount Pulaski: Cowan collected two hits, stole a base and scored a run, but Maroa-Forsyth broke a tie with two runs in the sixth inning to defeat the Hilltoppers 6-4. 

Karter Marks, Springfield High: Marks doubled and went 2-for-3 in Springfield High’s 6-5 loss to Edwardsville. 

Friday, May 22 

BASEBALL 

Stars of the Day 

Nolan Peters/A.J. Charpentier, Jacksonville: Peters was 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored while Charpentier had a pair of hits and knocked in three runs as Jacksonville beat Decatur MacArthur 10-2.  

Kane Komnick/Karson Komnick, Lincoln: On the mound, Kane Komnick fanned 10 and allowed three runs on seven hits as Lincoln downed Lanphier 5-3. Karson Komnick hit a two-run double in the bottom of the third to put Lincoln on top 4-3.  

Bryson Mossman/Kale Reich/Dalton Brown, Jacksonville Routt: All three Rockets’ hitters drove in a pair of runs each as Routt toppled Chicago DePaul College Prep 9-2.  

Karter Marks/Wade Snyder, Springfield High: Marks struck out seven and scattered three hits without a walk as the Senators beat Bartonville Limestone 10-0 in five innings. Marks also drove in three runs. Snyder homered, went 2-for-2, drove in three runs and scored three times.  

Drew Ward/Ty Springer/Austin Rutter, Sacred Heart-Griffin: Ward was 3-for-3 with a double and a solo home run as SHG defeated Alton Marquette 6-4. Springer also belted a solo homer for the Cyclones while Rutter led the team with a pair of RBIs. Pitchers Jack Johannes and Will Coady combined to strike out four. Johannes allowed one hit in three scoreless innings.  

Colten Knoedler, Chatham Glenwood: He was hit by a pitch with bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth as Glenwood squeaked past Harrisburg 3-2. Michael Lucas led off the ninth with a walk, Dylan Huff reached on an infield single and Tucker Murphy reached on an error to load the bases. On a 1-0 count, Knoedler was hit, Lucas scored and Glenwood won. Murphy and Reid Peterson both had a pair of hits for the Titans.

Kreston Shultz, Pleasant Plains: He knocked in a pair of runs on a sacrifice bunt in the Cardinals’ 4-3 win over Rochester. Landon Maisenbacher and Andrew Potthoff both doubled for the Cardinals.

Maxx Grieme/Carter Cappelin/Colton Gatton, Taylorville: All three players had two RBIs apiece as the Tornadoes battered Kankakee 13-0 in three innings.

Sam Plessa, Rochester: He had an RBI in the Rockets’ 4-3 loss to Pleasant Plains.

Lucas Seiz, Pawnee: He doubled and drove in a run in Pawnee’s 4-3 loss to Waterloo Gibault.  

Luke Pope/Tucker Armentrout, Morrisonville: Pope was 4-for-5 with one RBI and a double in Morrisonville’s 7-4 loss to Vandalia. Armentrout homered and was 3-for-5 from the No. 8 spot in the lineup. 

Caden Van De Velde/Aaron Bly, Southeast: They each doubled to account for the only Southeast hits in an 11-2 loss to Normal West. 

Thursday, May 21 

BASEBALL 

Games of the Day 

Petersburg PORTA 5, Winchester West Central 2 

Lucas McCoy was dominant on the mound, striking out 10 and allowing two runs on four hits and three walks across six innings to lead the Bluejays to their record 28th win.  

Colton Nelson struck out one to get the save.

The previous PORTA record stood since the 1996 team, coached by Eric Kesler, went 27-5. This is also the first time in the program’s history with back-to-back-to-back 20-win seasons.

PORTA (28-6) struck four times in the bottom of the first. Jett Karrick singled with one out ahead of an RBI triple from Nash Donnan. After Levi Hoagland walked to put runners at the corners, Brody Landon’s batted ball was misplayed, Donnan scored and the Bluejays had runners at first and second. With two outs, Nelson drove in Hoagland and Landon with a two-run single to center field for a 4-0 lead.  

Karrick and Donnan both had two hits, including a triple each.  

PORTA coach Brett Leischner, in his sixth season with the Bluejays, is 16 wins shy of tying Steve Sherwood for most wins in PORTA baseball history. Sherwood, who coached from 1972-81, won 132 games. Leischner is 116-72 through Thursday, May 21.  

— Ryan Mahan 

Pleasant Plains 7, Chatham Glenwood 6 

With the bases loaded and one out, Greyson Dodd and Dalton Glisson helped put the Cardinals on the board when they reached on errors in back-to-back plays for the tie before Landon Maisenbacher plated a run on a bunt in the bottom of the third in the nonconference win.  

Another Glenwood error in the inning led to a fourth Plains run as the Cardinals took a 4-2 lead.  

Drew Green singled home Brody Bryant in the fourth for a 5-2 lead. In the bottom of the fifth, Kreston Shultz drove in a pair of runs when he reached on another Glenwood error, one of four the Titans committed.  

Colten Knoedler led Glenwood with three hits while Reid Peterson had two RBIs.  

Green went 2-for-4 in Plains’ 10-3 loss to Normal U-High later in the day.  

Stars of the Day 

Wade Naylor/Caleb Cox, Lutheran: Naylor snapped a tie when he delivered a bases-loaded double in the top of the sixth as the Crusaders beat host Riverton 6-3. Naylor also pitched 1 2/3 innings to get the save. Cox started on the mound and struck out seven across 5 1/3 innings. He also went 2-for-4. Cox, a 6-foot-5 right-handed pitcher, has committed to pitch at Northern Illinois University next season.

Brody Shaw/Braden Reich, Gillespie: Shaw doubled and drove in three runs and worked 4 1/3 innings on the mound for the win as the Miners beat New Berlin 5-1. Reich was 2-for-4 with two RBIs.  

Alex Eldridge, Rochester: The Rockets’ third baseman was 2-for-3 with a triple and scored three runs to help Rochester top Springfield High 11-3. Ajay Runkel was 2-for-3, drove in a run and scored another while Frank Stefano III was 2-for-3 with an RBI.  

Austin Lucas, Lincoln: The Railers’ No. 2 hitter walked three times and went 2-for-2 with three steals and two runs scored as Lincoln beat Decatur MacArthur 9-5. Pitcher Bryce Vlahovich, who drove in two runs, struck out seven and allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits across five innings.  

Kade Oserholt/Mason Tryon, Morrisonville: Osterholt struck out nine in four innings and allowed two runs — one earned — on two hits and two walks as Morrisonville beat Ramsey 16-2 in four innings. Tryon homered and went 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Luke Pope and Cody Gunther both drove in a pair of runs.  

Izaak Doyen, Nokomis: He hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh to give Nokomis a walk-off 8-5 win over Pana. He also had a homer in the fifth inning and finished with seven RBIs.  

Drake Carver/Wyatt Gleason, Athens: Carver went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs as Athens blanked Greenfield/Northwestern 6-0. Gleason struck out three and allowed just two hits and one walk in six innings.  

Laidyn Jones, Litchfield: He singled and drove in a run in Litchfield’s 9-2 loss to Roxana.  

Donnie Marcum/Will Trojahn/Caden Van De Velde, Southeast: They each had one single to prevent a no-hitter by East Peoria pitcher Jacob Bond in Southeast’s 10-0 loss to East Peoria.  

Gage Ratliff/Tate Austwick, Williamsville: The pair recorded a single apiece in the Bullets’ 2-0 loss at home against Chillicothe Illinois Valley Central.  

Wade Snyder, Springfield High: He had two hits and an RBI in the Senators’ 11-3 loss to Rochester.  

Madyx Angel, Pana: He was 2-for-4 with two RBIs in Pana’s 8-5 loss at Nokomis.  

Tyler Cross, Mount Pulaski: Cross doubled and drove in a run in the Hilltoppers’ 5-3 loss at Warrensburg-Latham.  

Wednesday, May 20 

BASEBALL

Stars of the Day

Carson Butler, Sacred Heart-Griffin: Butler scattered three hits and earned his Cyclones a 5-0 win over Chatham Glenwood with a complete-game outing. SHG leadoff hitter Drew Ward was 3-for-3 and scored twice in the nonconference contest. Mikey Groesch, who was 2-for-4, hit a solo home run for the Cyclones.  

Camden Earley, North Mac: After two scoreless innings, Earley got the Panthers on the board with an RBI triple in the bottom of the third as North Mac beat Buffalo Tri-City 8-0. Earley was 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and he added a double. Clark Sanson gave North Mac four scoreless innings with five strikeouts. 

Carson Hailstone, Gillespie: Hailstone’s RBI double in the top of the eighth snapped a tie game, then he scored on the next play when teammate Brayden Enslow doubled, as Gillespie beat Hardin Calhoun 13-11 in eight innings. Hailstone was 4-for-5 and he and Enslow both drove in two runs. Nathan Haywood was 2-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs, while Dawson Lancaster also homered and drove in two for the Miners.  

Nolan Peters, Jacksonville: He went 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs as the Crimsons beat Greenfield/Northwestern 11-0 in six innings. Ryan Headen struck out three and allowed just two hits over four scoreless innings.  

Bryce Vlahovich/Chase March, Lincoln: Both players collected three hits and two RBIs each as Lincoln toppled Auburn 10-1 in a nonconference meeting.  

Lucas Seiz, Pawnee: The catcher finished 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs in Pawnee’s 9-3 victory over Nokomis. Hunter Barber doubled and finished with two hits, two runs and an RBI, and Torsten Polistina collected two hits and drove in a run.  

Griffin Rhoades/Cooper Leinberger, Pleasant Plains: The pair of Cardinals held Mason City Illini Central scoreless and limited the Cougars to just one hit as Plains won 13-0 in five innings. Jaxon Boon and Dalton Glisson both drove in a pair of runs each for the Cardinals.  

Mason Tryon/Cody Ganther, Morrisonville: Tryon finished 3-for-3 with two stolen bases and four RBIs as Morrisonville clobbered Bunker Hill 21-0 in four innings. Ganther fanned nine in a four-inning perfect game.  

Zach Meyer, Beardstown: Meyer, the Tigers’ catcher, had one hit but drove in three runs, including one on a sacrifice fly, as Beardstown downed Barry Western 10-0 in five innings. Colby Desollar, Maddox Medrano and Caleb Hobrock all supplied the Tigers with two hits apiece. Braydn Alhorn had four strikeouts across five scoreless innings.  

Luke Martin, Mount Pulaski: Martin fanned 15 batters in a two-hit complete-game shutout to help Mount Pulaski beat Argenta-Oreana 4-0. He also helped himself at the plate, going 2-for-2 with a run scored and an RBI.  

Levi Hoagland, Petersburg PORTA: The starting pitcher fanned seven, walked one and allowed two hits in six innings in PORTA’s 8-0 shutout win over Staunton. Hoagland went 2-for-3 with an RBI, and Brody Landon provided two hits with a double and drove in two runs.  

Noah Convery, Carlinville: Convery hurled a complete game, two-hit shutout as Carlinville defeated Athens 3-0. He struck out 10 and walked one. Michael Kaganich had an RBI single, and Cash Enrietta drove in two runs with a single in a three-run first inning.   

Dax Buttry/Peyton Casson, Williamsville: Buttry lined an RBI double and Casson added an RBI single, but Teutopolis broke a 2-2 tie with seven runs in the top of the seventh inning to defeat the Bullets 9-2. 

Joel Malloy, Hillsboro: He tripled and scored the Hiltoppers’ lone run in a 15-1 loss to Chester. 

Phil Lin/Max Yenchko, Lutheran: They had the Crusaders’ two hits in a 2-0 loss at Concord Triopia. 

Mathew Bywater/Max Leitschuh/Ethan Saathoff, Litchfield: All three had two hits apiece for the Purple Panthers in a 7-6 loss to Breese Central. Titan Hires doubled for Litchfield.  

Owen Smith, Havana: Smith had a hit and drove in a run in Havana’s 11-2 loss to Tremont. Bradyn Willing singled and scored a run. 

SOFTBALL

Stars of the Day

Maylee Payne/Alivia Rothermich, Springfield High: Each player had one hit while Payne drove in the Senators’ lone run in a 13-1 five-inning loss at O’Fallon. 

Tuesday, May 19 

BASEBALL 

Game of the Day 

Jacksonville 4, Springfield High 0 (10 innings) 

With two on and no outs in the top of the 10th, Jacksonville freshman Jack Rohlk doubled to score the first of four runs as the Crimsons outlasted the Senators in a 10-inning extravaganza.

Joe Reif and Nolan Peters led off the top of the 10th by both getting hit by a pitch. Rohlk’s double scored Reif and gave the Crimsons runners at the corners. Bentley Lagergren walked to load the bases before an A.J. Charpentier scored Peters. Drew Gillespie then took a bases-loaded hit by pitch to score Rohlk for a 3-0 lead. Ethan Kruzan’s single scored the final run.

That top half spoiled eight scoreless innings thrown by Springfield High freshman Jacob Scheffler. Scheffler allowed six hits, two walks and one hit batter while striking out four.  

Kruzan and Ryan Headen each led JHS with two hits, while Headen and Rohlk had the two Crimsons’ doubles.  

Peters and Charpentier combined to throw 9 1/3 scoreless innings with seven total strikeouts.  

Stars of the Day 

Mikey Groesch, Sacred Heart-Griffin: Groesch went 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs as SHG beat Pleasant Plains 17-5 in five innings. Drew Ward led SHG with three hits while he and Ty Springer (2-for-2) both had three RBIs apiece. Carson Butler, Austin Rutter and Dylan Clow all had two hits apiece for the Cyclones.  

Lincoln Burris, Pana: The Panthers’ No. 8 hitter went 3-for-3 and drove in four runs to help Pana top host North Mac in the South Central Conference finale for both teams. Burris’ RBI single in the top of the second gave Pana a 2-1 lead over North Mac. In the top of the third, with two on, Burris singled to center to score two more and put Pana up 5-1. The win gave Pana its fourth-straight win, the longest winning streak of the season for the Panthers (16-11 overall, 5-4 SCC).  

Brody Landon, Petersburg PORTA: His single in the fifth scored two runs and snapped a 2-2 tie as the Bluejays beat Mount Pulaski 6-2. Landon finished 2-for-3 with a triple and three runs driven in. Three PORTA pitchers held Mount Pulaski to just one hit.  

Jackson Nibbe/Owen Byerline, Buffalo Tri-City: The duo combined for four hits, five RBIs and three runs in Tri-City’s 12-2, six-inning win over Edinburg. Byerline doubled and tripled, and Corbin Unthank went 3-for-4 with an RBI.   

Zach Meyer, Beardstown: Meyer finished 2-for-2 with a run and an RBI, but Beardstown lost to Payson Seymour 8-2. 

Camden Earley, North Mac: He was 3-for-4 with a triple and two RBIs in North Mac’s 9-5 home South Central Conference loss to Pana.  

Nathan Stanbaugh/Trevor Perry, Rushville-Industry: Both Rockets had two hits and drove in a run each as Rushville-Industry dropped a 13-7 decision to Monmouth United.  

Cale Dugger/Luke Moore, Staunton: Dugger was 2-for-4 with a double and Moore was 2-for-2 with two RBIs in Staunton’s 8-2 loss to Glen Carbon Father McGivney.  

GIRLS SOCCER  

Stars of the Day 

Mylee Ribble/Savanna Siglock, Carlinville: After a scoreless first half in the Class 1A Carlinville Regional semifinals, Ribble found an opening near the far post to lead Carlinville past Olney Richland County 1-0. Ribble scored off an assist from Blakely Swan in the 48th minute. Siglock made seven saves in net for the shutout win. The No. 2 Cavaliers will face No. 3 Greenville on Friday at 5 p.m. for the regional title after the Comets downed Pana 3-0. 

SOFTBALL 

Stars of the Day 

Irie Lohrenz, Chatham Glenwood: She combined on a no-hitter with Alyvia Streb as Glenwood defeated Bethalto Civic Memorial 10-0 in five innings. Lohrenz struck out seven and walked one in four innings, and Streb struck out three with a walk in one inning. Ryleigh Kiel (4-for-4, three runs, RBI) collected three doubles and Hope Gilmore and Jemma Lamb both doubled twice, drove in three runs apiece and each scored two runs. 

Monday, May 18 

BASEBALL 

Game of the Day 

New Berlin 3, Riverton 2 

Evan Teel drove in Reid Hepperly with a walk-off single with two outs in the bottom of the 12th inning to give the Pretzels the victory in the first game of a doubleheader.  

Hepperly walked to start the inning and advanced to second on a groundout before scoring the game-winner. 

Riverton took a 1-0 lead on an RBI double by Logan LaDew in the fifth inning. Hepperly, who singled, scored New Berlin’s first run on an RBI groundout by Teel to tie the score 1-1 in the sixth.  

Riverton (10-19) grabbed a 2-1 lead in the 10th when Brodee Bates walked and scored on a double by Tyler Meyer (2-for-5). The Pretzels tied the game in the bottom half with a bases loaded walk by Hurley Bennett, who finished 2-for-5.  

Hepperly went 1-for-2 with two runs and four walks. Nolan Robinson was the winning pitcher after throwing one inning with two strikeouts and one walk.   

New Berlin (19-9) scored 10 runs in the fourth inning and defeated the Hawks 15-11 in Game 2.  

Teel (3-for-4) finished with seven RBIs. His two doubles drove in five runs, and he added a two-run single. Hepperly had a hit and two RBIs, and Bennett and Robinson both walked twice, and each singled and scored three runs apiece. 

Riverton’s Sylias Walter finished with a hit and three RBIs, and Braden Eiskant (2-for-4) and Bates (1-for-5, two runs) chipped in two RBIs apiece. Eli LaFalce went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.  

GIRLS SOCCER 

Stars of the Day 

Brooklynn Lowder/Mary Jane Keller, Rochester: Lowder tallied three goals and Keller scored twice in Rochester’s 9-0 victory over Lutheran in the Class 1A Quincy Notre Dame Regional semifinals. Alaina Stock chipped in two goals with an assist. Rochester, the second seed, plays No. 3 seed Quincy Notre Dame for the title at 5 p.m. on Friday. QND defeated sixth seed Beardstown 8-0 to advance in the other semifinal on Tuesday. 

This article originally appeared on State Journal-Register: Crimsons tops Quincy, Taylorville’s Pembroke throws gem | Top performers

Reporting by Trevor Lawrence, Springfield State Journal-Register / State Journal-Register

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