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BY THE NUMBERS: IHSA Class 1A State Baseball Final Four

By Shaw Local News Network

Members of the Newark baseball team pose with their Class 1A third-place trophy after defeating Mt. Pulaski, 6-2, at Duffy Bass Field on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal on Thursday, June 17, 2021 (Scott Anderson)

1: The number of years Josh Cooper has been Newark’s baseball coach

4: The number of seniors on this year’s Newark squad

5: The number of consecutive seasons a Times-area Class 1A baseball team has reached the state finals (Somonauk 2016 and 2017; Marquette Academy 2018 and 2019; Newark 2021)

11: The number of pitching wins without a loss that Newark senior Dalton Riebel registered this season.

15: The number of hits the Norsemen collected in the pair of state final games played on Thursday

27: The number of school-record wins Newark posted this season

83: The number of total pitches (57 strikes) that senior pitcher Jared Slivka needed to post a complete-game win over Mt. Pulaski in the third-place game

85: The number of years since the first Newark High School baseball team took the field according to IHSA.org (1936)

105-15: The combined final records of the final four Class 1A teams (South Central 26-3, Father McGivney Catholic 31-7, Newark 27-2, Mt. Pulaski 21-3)

747: Number of days since the last Class 1A championship game had been played (June 1, 2019)