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Jacksonville third baseman Nolan Peters throws to first during a baseball game against\u00a0Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Jacksonville baseball team’s win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Nolan Peters busted out of a hitting slump as the Jacksonville baseball team overcame five errors on a cold, windy day in a 9-4 win over Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cNot ideal conditions,\u201d Jacksonville coach Cory\u00a0Bunner said, \u201cbut the other team’s playing in the same thing as well. And I thought we did a good job of putting pressure on and kind of capitalizing on some of their mistakes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe made ours as well, but we were able to limit the damage in those innings where we had a couple of plays that we should have made. Less than ideal conditions, but when you can get a win on a day like that, it feels good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cy Kershaw pitched around the errors. He gave up four runs (one earned) on five hits in five innings of work, with one strikeout and two walks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Errors in the field do not bother the Crimson\u00a0right-hander.\u00a0\u201cI just try to not worry about it and just try to pick them up and make the next pitch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Kershaw picked off a runner in the third inning, then got out of a bases-loaded jam in the fourth. With one out, second baseman Talan Harney snagged a line drive and stepped on second for a double play to end the inning.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was just trying to use my defense, and they did a good job,\u201d\u00a0Kershaw said. \u201cI was just trying to do my best at throwing strikes with how cold it was.\u00a0I was trying to use my defense as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacksonville got on the board with a run in the bottom of the first. Joe\u00a0Reif led off with a single, stole second, went to third on a ground out and scored on a two-out single by Bentley Lagergren.<\/p>\n
QND tied the score in the second, pushing across a run on a single and an error.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jacksonville took the lead for good with three in the bottom of the third.\u00a0Reif started it with a single. After he stole second, Jack Rohlk was hit by a pitch to put two runners on. Lagergren hit into a fielder\u2019s choice as Reif scored. Kershaw walked before two-out singles by AJ Charpentier and Peters increased the lead to 4-1.<\/p>\n
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Peters, who had seven hits in the Crimsons\u2019 first eight games, went 3-for-4 at the plate. He doubled in a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth and later scored on an error as the Crimsons put the game away with three runs after\u00a0QND had cut the lead to 6-4 with two in the top half.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just had some big hits,\u201d\u00a0Bunner said. \u201cI think Nolan Peters had a really good day today. He’s kind of been struggling this year, and as a senior, you love to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s just continued to pitch well,\u201d the coach said. \u201cOn a day when the wind\u2019s blowing out, with him, he kind of tends to give up a lot of fly balls. So I thought he did a good job of staying out of the middle of the plate, and just a lot of soft contact. And a couple of those plays we didn’t make on soft contact, but on days like today, it’s hard. But he just pounded the strike zone, and it was just a really nice start for him for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ryan\u00a0Headen pitched the final two innings, shutting out QND on no hits. He struck out three batters and walked one.<\/p>\n
Reif, Lagergren and Charpentier had two hits apiece. Peters\u2019 double was the Crimsons\u2019 only extra-base hit.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville improved to 7-2 as the team enters an important week. The Crimsons host Chatham\u00a0Glenwood (6-2) on Tuesday and Normal University (9-1) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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Limiting the damage from five errors, and continuing to put pressure on the Raiders both at the plate and on the\u00a0basepaths showed some early season resilience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re a good team,\u201d\u00a0Kershaw said. \u201cWe have a good game against them every year, and it felt good to come out and beat them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville third baseman Nolan Peters throws to first during a baseball game against\u00a0Quincy Notre Dame at Future Champions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,95177,118,117,110],"class_list":["post-219721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-baseball","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}