Streaks sweep the Rocks

In order to beat the weather forcast, the Streaks travelled to Rock Island on Friday night rather than the traditional Saturday morning contest.  Galesburg handled the change in routine well as they completed a two game sweep of Rock Island to move their record to 18-3.

Streaks get by Richwoods

Galesburg defeated Peoria Richwoods tonight by a score of 5-4 in 8 innings.  Andrew Steck walked with the bases loaded to record the game winning RBI. Defensively Galesburg committed 0 errors which is what we are most happy about.  Tomorrow we play our conference double header with Rock Island at 3:30.  Sorry to keep this so short but there will be much more baseball to write about after the weekend.  Hope to see you all at Rock Island.

Go Streaks

Sophs get to play and beat Mercer County

After only playing one game over the previous 14 days, we finally got to play last night against Mercer County. It was the first time that I had witnessed a baseball game in Aledo and I was impressed by the quality of their field that allowed us to get the 5-3 victory in despite all of the rain that we have had lately.

Dedication and commitment

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
- Thomas Edison


The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
- Andrew Carnegie


Good team players don't pick and choose when they will be dedicated or committed to the cause.  They just are.  Every game.  Every inning. 

Streaks "tripped up" at Metamora

The Streaks travelled to Metamora on Tuesday and were defeated by the score of 5-4.  The loss put an end to a 12 game winning streak and moves Galesburg's record to 15-3.

Another Schedule Change!!!!

This weekend's double-header date with Rock Island has been moved.

Prep Baseball Report Rankings (04-25)

Double Header with Moline moved again to 05-12

Right now the conference double header with Moline has been moved to Thursday, May 12th.  This double header will begin at 3:30. 

(JV game cancelled today..."Added" Game Tuesday (4-26)

In an effort to keep our kids playing through what has to be the most brutal two weeks of weather in my coaching career, Coach Gonzalez has added a game with Metamora tomorrow at 5 p.m.  It will be at their place and the kids will leave from the school at 3:00.  It may be the only window of "semi-dry" weather for the most of this week.  Metamora could possibly be a sectional opponent for us again this year so if you can make it...we will see you there tomorrow.

Sophomore Schedule Changes

Due to unplayable conditions on the varsity field and a scheduled home soccer game on Tuesday, the home game against Washington has been cancelled. Thursday's game at Peoria Notre Dame has also been cancelled due to a scheduling conflict.

Games with Moline postponed today

As I am sure most of you know now, our games with Moline have been postponed.  With the varsity field still unplayable, our alternative was to move it to the sophomore field. 

Sophomores Lose 10 - 9 in Extra Innings

We finally got to play after an 8 day layoff and wound up losing 10 - 9 in 8 innings to an 8-1 Washington team.

Streaks win in "unconventional" fashion against Richwoods

On Thursday evening, the Streaks moved their record to 15-2 with a 12-8 victory over the host Richwoods Knights. The win was not easy however as Galesburg battled back from an 8-0 deficit.

Video of a high school baseball game

Check out this video of a play at the plate during a high school game in Mississippi.  This is not how we teach it...but it worked.

Stats are updated

Check out the pages on the right hand side.  The stats are up to date and I have added separate pages for conference statistics.

Varsity Baseball vs Richwoods is postponed to tomorrow

Alumni Game Cancelled

The alumni baseball game that was scheduled for this coming saturday following the varsity doubleheader has been cancelled due to lack of participants.

New Prep Baseball Report rankings

Anybody up for a little Bulletin Board Material???

Check this out from the qconline newspaper on the Moline vs. Alleman game.  Notice the emboldened parts.

A little extra motivation to come out and watch...in case it's needed.

Galesburg versus Quincy

The Galesburg Silver Streaks completed a sweep of Quincy last night on what was an otherwise miserable evening.  The weather played a factor especially in the second game where the Streaks won 7-2.  Galesburg won the first 9-3.

Baseball games at all three levels cancelled today

Quincy Game is Postponed

The Varsity conference games with Quincy have been rescheduled to Monday at 3:00 pm in Quincy. The sophomore games will not be rescheduled.

Game against Quincy

Both the sophomore and varsity games have been postponed tomorrow until 1:00.  The varsity will be leaving at 8:00.  Stay tuned for more information as I get it.

Games today

Both sophomore and varsity games at Metamora are cancelled.  We will not be leaving tonight for Quincy.  We will keep you posted on the plan for tomorrow.

Pictures

Here are a few random pictures from the season. 

Sophomore Stats Page has been Added

I have finally had a chance to go back and enter in the stats from a couple games where we had some technical difficulties with the stat program in the dugout. Please keep in mind when viewing these stats that these are not the goal of our players or our team. These stats are not a true reflections of how well or poorly we are executing on the field. There are times when we make a great pitch and the hitter fights it off for a bloop single. Other times we will make a poor pitch that the hitter will chase out of the zone or maybe one right down the middle that the batter hits right at a fielder for an out. That's the nature of baseball. The results cannot always be controlled by the player.

That being said, some of these stats are disturbing to me. We are walking way too many hitters, striking out too much, and have given up way too many unearned runs. We need to improve these 3 areas if we are going to have a successful season.

Sophs Struggle at Pekin

After putting up a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, Pekin was able to score the next 10 runs with the help of a few errors, a couple walks, mixed in with a couple timely hits. We struggled offensively staying back against their pitcher who did not throw very hard, but threw strikes and allowed us to put the ball in play without much authority. One of the few bright spots for the Streaks tonight was seeing Ryan Carl go 2-3 at the plate in the 14-4 loss.

Streaks beat Alleman at Monmouth College

On a fantastic day of weather, the Silver Streaks defeated Rock Island Alleman at Monmouth College by a score of 6-1.

Prep Baseball Report Rankings

I don't think any coach puts much stock into rankings.  Baseball is especially tough simply because of the influence a pitcher has on a game.  In basketball/football the "all state" point guard, or the "all state" quarterback play in every game.

Sophomores Win at Alleman

We came out of the gate swinging tonight scoring 4 runs in the first inning and held on for an 8 to 6 win.

Stats

Stats are updated through our double header on Saturday.  Once we play another conference dh, I will also start posting conference game stats on a separate page.

Radio Broadcast for Alleman game

If you cannot make it to Monmouth College tomorrow to watch the Streaks play Rock Island Alleman, then you can still catch the radio broadcast on 1590 WAIK.  Beau Spencer will be doing the broadcast.

Sophomores Sweep UT to Start the Conferernce Season

After working all morning to get the field ready, it took 6 innings for our bats to finally wake up. Trailing 2 - 0 entering the bottom of the 7th inning, Drew Diaz led off with a single to center. Ian Milligan flied to right for the first out. Ryan Osborn followed with a walk. Drew Nall laid down a bunt to try to move the runners into scoring position, but UT was able to get the force out at third. With 2 outs and runners at first and second, Drake Sykes got us on the board with an RBI single to score Osborn. Jake Hannam followed with a big 2 out hit to the right side to score Nall and tie the game. Tanner Guss followed with a ground ball that was fielded by the UT shortstop and thrown to first, but the first baseman was unable to hold on and Sykes who didn't hesitate coming around third scored easily for the win.

Carson Cheesman did a nice job on the mound after a shaky second inning and only gave up 2 runs in 6 innings of work. Jake Hannam came in and threw a scoreless 7th to pick up the 3-2 win.

A great start to the Conference season

The coaches, Jon Hendricks, and even some dads arose early Saturday morning and headed to Sundberg Field.  What they found was a very wet and unplayable surface at 7:00 a.m.  For all their hard work the Streaks took the field at 1:00 and swept U.T. by scores of 10-0 and 3-2. 

Conference Doubleheaders Against UT Have Been Pushed back to 1:00 pm

The opening Saturday of Western Big 6 conference play at Galesburg High School has been pushed back to 1:00 pm due to wet field conditions.

A little video evidence...

I was watching this video on Beau Spencer's website (http://www.ihssn.net/) and I couldn't help but notice how our guys are executing what we have worked on all year in the cage.  We let the ball travel and take it the other way.  See for yourself

We Need More Alumni Game Participants

Right now, I have only had 2 former players let me know that they want to participate in the Alumni Baseball Game on Saturday, April 23rd following the Moline conference doubleheader at Sundberg Field. This is a great opportunity to come out and watch some great baseball and meet up with your high school teammates. Click on the Alumni Game flier link on the right side of this page for more details.

Limestone Defeats Sophomores

We've got in a bad habit of having of one bad inning defensively each game lately and tonight wasn't any different. The score was 1 - 0 going to the top of the third inning after a missed opportunity to put some runs on the board in the bottom of the first when we made 3 errors defensively and walked 4 batters. Combine that with a couple of seeing eye singles and we found ourselves down 9-0 when the inning finally ended.

Stats

I have finally been able to post our stats.  They are located as a separate page on the right hand side of the blog.  Offensive and Pitching stats each have their own page.  A big thank you goes to Rob Strack for maintaining these for us.  The stats will usually be updated on a game by game basis and will normally be one game behind.  Enjoy

Streaks survive Limestone

Tonight the Streaks defeated Limestone by a 7-4 margin.  We improved our record to 9-2 with the non-conference victory.  While we are happy about the win, this game like many others, illuminated things that we need to get buttoned up before heading into the bulk of our schedule.

Schedule change

For next week the Monday game with Alleman is moved to Tuesday and it will be played at Monmouth College.  The J.V. game scheduled on Tuesday will be moved to Monday.  That is a home game against Bushnell Prarie City

Pete and Pick

    I wanted to try something a little different with this article.  While, I have enjoyed writing about our team and their accomplishments, this blog has given me an avenue to do some things I normally wouldn't get a chance to do.  So, I decided to interview Pete and Pick.
    If you are a fan of GHS sports in any way, you know who these two guys are.  They have made themselves fixtures at many GHS athletic activities.  In this article, I decided to combine two passions of mine...history and baseball.  These two provided the history of GHS athletics and we also talked about this years baseball team.  I asked just a few questions and they were kind enough to humor me and answer.  Both of these gentlemen have been friendly and supportive of me since I got here.  This is just my way of thanking them and I hope you enjoy reading about the "guys under the tree" at our home baseball games.

Video of an exciting play during the Invite

To set this up, Limestone (in the field)is leading Normal U-High (batting) 2-1 in the bottom of the 7th.  There are two outs and a runner on first.  This was possibly the most exciting play of the tournament.  It even resulted in two ejections, a player and a coach.  Watch this!

Trying something new

I am going to attempt to "embed" some video that Beau Spencer took of the Streaks.  Beau  has given me the instructions so I hope I can follow them successfully.  You know, I never thought I would meet someone as excited about high school sports as myself. But Beau is a nut! 

Lower part of the order gets it done for the Streaks

It was the lower third of the lineup that had success
as the Streaks defeated a tough Rock Island Alleman team Saturday night.  With the win the Streaks claimed the "Streaks Invite" title and move their record to 8-2.

     All year long, we have been able to almost just bank on the fact the the front part of our order is going to "place the table" for us.  Dalton, Luke, and Zack  have done exactly what they are asked to do offensively and more.  You will hear no complaints about those guys from me.

Sophomores Split at Canton

After a dissapointing effort  on thursday night in 7-0 loss at East Peoria, we came out with a little more energy today at Canton. Drake Sykes started the day off right with a leadoff homerun that he had to sprint around the bases for because there is no outfield fence at Canton's sophomore field. Sykes also did a nice job on the mound only giving up 2 runs in 6 innings of work. We struggled offensively with the curveball and a moving strike zone. We need to get better at fighting off the tough pitches and jumping on fastballs early in the count. This will help us score more than just 2 runs off of very average pitching. We lost game one 3-2 when Canton put together 3 consecutive singles to break a 2-2 tie in the 7th inning.

Late nights

It has been a bunch of late nights in a row for the Streaks.  As I am typing this it is about midnight so I am going to keep it short for now.  But for those who were not in attendance, the Streaks defeated Rockford Guilford 12-9 and United Towship 5-4.  When I get a chance, and when my computer screen is no longer blurry from the lack of sleep and the dust in my eyes courtesy of the wind, I will post stats and comments on the two games.  The Streaks will play for the championship against Alleman at 7:00 Saturday night.  Hope to see you there.  It is supposed to be a great day weather wise.


Go Streaks!

Pictures from the game against Pekin

Thanks to Mrs. Steck for sending some pictures!  Here are a few...