Rohlk breaks tie in 10th to lift Jacksonville | 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.

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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: Rohlk breaks tie in 10th to lift Jacksonville | Top performers

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

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