{"id":174490,"date":"2026-04-24T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:02:11","slug":"braden-shaw-powers-princeton-past-erie-prophetstown-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174490\/","title":{"rendered":"Braden Shaw powers Princeton past Erie-Prophetstown \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

One swing of the bat by Braden Shaw lifted Princeton<\/a> to a 2-1 win over Erie-Prophetstown<\/a> in a Three Rivers East battle Thursday at Prather Field in Princeton.<\/p>\n

But it took a throw to home by second baseman Hunter Spiegel and game-ending strikeout by reliever Jack Oester to finish off the Tiger victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been getting some good conference wins. Feels really good,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been playing real good baseball together. Tyler (Forristall) and Noah (Morton) dealed and we were able to get a couple runs behind them and able to shut them out at the end with Jack (Oester) coming in to close it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

First-year Princeton coach Patrick Smith said it was a typical Tiger game.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing comes easy for us. I tell you what, we battled,\u201d he said. \u201cWe talk about competing every single day no matter what the scoreboard says. If we keep competing, that stuff\u2019s going to take care of themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a couple games last week where we didn\u2019t hit very well. Sometimes you do when you have a low-scoring game. Got to score enough runs and tonight\u2019s that\u2019s exactly what we did. Came on one swing of the. bat. It was a big hit by Braden. We pitched really, really well today and held them to one run. We\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hayden Sayler led off the Tiger fifth with a single, taking second when the ball skipped past the E-P center fielder. Shaw followed with a blast over the left-center fence and suddenly the Tigers took a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sitting slider the whole time and he threw it to me and I was able to catch it out front and drive it out to left-center field,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cYou barely feel like you hit it. It\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHit one on Monday, too. He\u2019s kind of in a little bit of a groove right now,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI think last week he had a couple of gap shots against Mendota, too. And that\u2019s always nice when you can get some extra base hits and instead of trying to piece three or four singles in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been amazing. He hit one last game. He\u2019s been hot,\u201d Oester said. \u201cIn the cages he\u2019s been hitting great. He\u2019s doing everything we want in a leadoff hitter and get it going for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Panthers (6-5-1) did not go down quietly in the seventh.<\/p>\n

Graden Church led off with a single and Richard Carreno reached on an error. Alastaire Sweetser, the E-P pitcher, drew a walk off Tiger reliever Noah Morton to load the bases. Braedyn Frank followed with a single to left with Carreno scoring on a throwing error with courtesy runner Landon Vandewostine and Frank moving up an extra base. <\/p>\n

Spiegel then made the defensive play of the game for the Tigers when he threw out Vandewostine trying to score on a grounder to second.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been playing a great second base. I\u2019m very proud of him. He\u2019s looked really good there,\u201d Shaw said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was big time. He\u2019s been playing real good at second base for us,\u201d Oester said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s done that two or three times already this year. He\u2019s a heady kid,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know who was going to play there at the beginning of the year. He\u2019s kind taken over that second base spot. And we have to play him there because he makes all the right plays.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evan Steimle walked to load the bases before Oester fired a fastball past Copeland to end the game.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/p>\n

Jack Oester (PHS)<\/p>\n

Oester knew he had no room for error.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing in there and throwing strikes and making sure I\u2019m not too plateful with my stuff. Just throw strikes and get it done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Tigers scored two runs in the seventh to turn back the Panthers 5-2 and E-P coach Jeff Wunderlich said both games were similar.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we played Monday them we hit into some double plays. This time they made the plays, too,\u201d he said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t get any timely hitting. Little things like that will hurt you in these close games.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brokaw led the Tigers (5-7) with a 2 for 3 day at the plate.<\/p>\n

Forristall, the Tiger starter, pitched two scoreless innings, allowing one hit and walk with four strikeouts.<\/p>\n

He turned the ball over to Morton, who scattered six hits and two walks with four strikeouts while allowing one earned run over 4\u2153 innings for the win.<\/p>\n

Frank went 3 for 4 for the Panthers while Carter Hadaway was 2 for 2 with a double.<\/p>\n

Sweetser went the distance for E-P, scattering seven hits and a walk while striking out 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One swing of the bat by Braden Shaw lifted Princeton to a 2-1 win over Erie-Prophetstown in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[52989,52990,136,138,137,982,11134,6357,10987,983],"class_list":{"0":"post-174490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-bcr","9":"tag-bcr-sports","10":"tag-erie","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-erie-prophetstown-preps","14":"tag-illinois-valley-front-headlines","15":"tag-premium","16":"tag-princeton-preps","17":"tag-sauk-valley-front-headlines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}