Area roundup: Katie Bates, Tigresses top Kewanee in key TRAC East showdown

PHS freshman leadoff hitter Kelsea Klingenberg lays down a bunt at Kewanee Tuesday. The Tigresses won 4-0.

Katie Bates fired a one-hit shutout to pitch Princeton to a key 4-0 win over Kewanee in TRAC East softball Tuesday in Kewanee.

Freshman leadoff hitter Kelsea Klingenberg had three hits and Rilee Sterling and McKenzie Hecht added a hit and 2 RBIs each.

The same two teams will meet again Thursday at Princeton.

PHS senior Abby Peterson tries to beat the throw to first base at Kewanee Tuesday. The Tigresses won 4-0.

IVC 3, Bureau Valley 2: The Grey Ghosts pushed across the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth to defeat the Storm in nonconference play at Chillicothe.

Lesleigh Maynard and Tyra Sayler each had RBI hits and Emma Stabler and Kaleen Carlson also hit their way on safely. The Storm batters struck out 14 times.

Madison Smith was tagged for the loss, allowing four hits and one earned run with nine strikeouts.

Newman 11, St. Bede 5: Bella Pinter went 2 for 3 and drove in two runs Tuesday, but the Bruins suffered their first loss of the season in a Three Rivers East game at the Academy.

Ella Hermes doubled and scored two runs for St. Bede (8-1, 4-1), while Payge Pyszka took the loss in the circle.

Mendota 18, Hall 1: Maggie Filippini went 2 for 4 and drove in the lone run for Hall (0-7, 0-5) while also taking the loss in the circle.

BASEBALL

Kewanee 6, Princeton 4: The Tigers mustered only two hits, a single by Jordan Reinhardt and a triple by Augie Christiansen in TRAC East play Tuesday at Kewanee.

“We’re just not hitting the way we need to,” PHS coach Wick Warren said.

Danny Cihocki took the loss for the Tigers, who fell to 2-3 and 1-2 in conference play.

Hall 10, Mendota 2: Ethan Plym used his bat and his arm to help the Red Devils to a Three Rivers East victory Tuesday at Kirby Park in Spring Valley.

Plym went 2 for 3 with two RBIs and a run and also earned the win on the mound, giving up one earned run on four hits with nine strikeouts and three walks in six innings.

Kyler Lapp hit a two-run home run, and Gabe Lucas and Max Bryant each had a hit with two RBIs for Hall (7-2, 4-1 TRAC East).

Newman 14, St. Bede 4: Logan Humpage doubled twice and drove in two runs Tuesday as the Bruins lost a Three Rivers East game at the Academy.

Callan Hueneburg went 1 for 3 with a double and a run for St. Bede (2-7, 1-4 TRAC East) and also took the loss on the mound.

BOYS TENNIS

Princeton 6, St. Bede 0: The Tigers swept the Bruins Tuesday with singles wins by Tyson Phillips (6-3, 6-4) and Nolan Mallory (6-4, 6-0) and Trent Goodale (6-3, 6-1) and Josh Orwig (6-0, 6-0) and the doubles teams of Reid Orwig and Ben Anderson (6-1, 6-2) and Matthew Sims and Niklas Schneider (6-0, 6-3).

GIRLS SOCCER

Princeton 3, Mendota 0: The Tigresses got traditional goals by Mariah Hobson and Nora Schneider and a late, 45-yarder on free kick by Maggie Davis for the win on the road Tuesday. Freshman keeper Maddie Oertel pitched a shutout in her first varsity start on goal.

GIRLS TRACK & FIELD

At Spring Valley: Hall placed fourth (37) in a home quadrangular Tuesday with Erie-Prophetstown first (85), Kewanee second (61) and IVC third (56).

Promise Giacometti won the 100m (13.9), placed second in the 200 (29.0) and ran with Victoria Ullrich, Jennifer Casford and Molly Dalzot to finish second in the 4x100 relay (54.96).

Dalzot placed second in the 200m and long jump and third in the triple jump.

At Manlius: Bureau Valley placed third at its own seven-team meet Tuesday. Annawan-Wethersfield won with 147 points followed by Fulton (116), BV (80), Amboy co-op (68), Cambridge (59), St. Bede (44) and Putnam County (5).

For the Storm, Jillian Hulsing cleared 4-8 to win the high jump, while Allison Larkin won the pole vault at 5-5 ¾.

Amboy’s Elly Jones won the 100-meter hurdles (16.14 seconds), the long jump (16-7 ½) and the triple jump (34-8 ½), while teammate Lauren Althaus won the 200 (27.79) and the 400 (1:06.65).

Anna Lopez was St. Bede’s top performer with a pair of second-place finishes in the long jump (16-2 ½) and the triple jump (34-5).

Putnam County’s Molly Roach was fourth in the 400 in 1:10.66.

BOYS TRACK & FIELD

At Fulton: The Amboy co-op had two third-place finishes as the Clippers finished eighth among 11 teams at the Craig Faulkner Relays on Tuesday.

Kyler McNinch, Atticus Horner, Wyatt Lundquist and Brock Loftus placed third in the 4x800-meter relay in 9:18.82, while Caleb Yonos, Kelton Schwamberger, Zane Murphy and Loftus took third in the sprint medley relay in 3:54.7.