Baseball: Neuqua Exacts Revenge On Waubonsie
Neuqua Valley 9, Waubonsie Valley 6. After dropping all three regular-season games against their rivals, Wildcats respond with regional semifinal win Wednesday.
LOCKPORT – After watching his team top rival Waubonsie Valleyin the Class 4A Lockport Regional semifinals Wednesday, Neuqua Valleybaseball coach Robin Renner described what teams need to win postseason baseball games. “I’ve been in enough games to know that in order to advance, things have to happen in your favor that you can’t explain,” Renner said. The Wildcats’ 9-6 win was loaded with those types of moments. Neuqua scored seven runs in the third inning thanks to nine straight hits, something that neither coach could remember ever seeing, turned a 1-2-3 double play to escape from a bases-loaded jam in the fourth and turned a bizarre 2-3 double play on a tapper in front of the plate that limited the damage in Waubonsie’s fifth inning. The…
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