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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.

Sweep sets up Moline-Galesburg Big 6 baseball showdown

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Originally Posted Online: April 18, 2011, 11:04 pm
Last Updated: April 19, 2011, 1:51 am

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By Steve Tappa, stappa@qconline.com

Seth Fuller made exactly two mistakes Monday, but neither came back to haunt the Moline baseball team. The senior ace left a two-out pitch up and in that Legion teammate Ryan O'Keeffe crushed for a go-ahead, two-run homer in the third inning. Later, in Game 1's final frame, Fuller also lost his head momentarily, rushing off the mound and risking injury to make a feet-first sliding catch in foul territory. ``I've got to make that play!'' Fuller said after helping the Maroons sweep Alleman, 6-2 and 15-3, in a Western Big 6 Conference makeup doubleheader pushed back two days by rain. ``The only thing that scared me was I thought I was going to keep sliding and hit the fence (in front of the dugout). It all worked out, though.'' Fuller (5-0) tossed a complete-game, three-hitter in the opener, then provided a grand slam to highlight the nightcap, which was shortened to five innings by the 10-run mercy rule. Eric Ashcraft and Kyle Lewis also had five hits and two RBIs for Moline in the twinbill, played in windy, wet and chilly conditions at Gerard's Yard at the Alleman Sports Complex. "It was weird coming out on a Monday, playing a conference doubleheader and in these kinds of conditions,'' said Lewis, among the Moline starters with Legion World Series experience. "But like coach says, these are the times he leans on his experience, for us to be prepared mentally to play. Despite the fact we've gone more than a week between games, we came out and hit the ball well with two strikes. We also fielded and pitched well. We knew what was at stake. We needed to get these two to make Saturday what we want it to be.'' On tap this weekend is the anticipated showdown between Moline (15-1, 4-0) and co-favorite Galesburg (14-2, 4-0). "This is what you play for,'' Moline coach Derek Lindauer said after his club's 15th consecutive victory. "(Tyler) Farrell and (Nick) Milligan are my teammates next year,'' at Western Illinois, Fuller added. "Hopefully we can get them so I have something to hold over their heads.''Initially, the bragging rights were O'Keeffe's, after he gave Alleman (11-7, 2-2) the early lead against his Legion teammate. But after that, it was all Moline. The Maroons plated four runs in the opener's fourth, fueled by back-to-back RBI singles from Fuller and Timmy Wages (3 hits, 2 RBIs). Lewis later added a two-run single in the sixth, and Fuller finished with nine strikeouts on the mound. In the nightcap, the Maroons batted around twice, scoring seven in the second, and six more in the fifth to back Ryan Archer (5-0). Fuller's grand slam capped the first big outburst. Parker Jasper had a two-run single to highlight the latter explosion. "`Keef' hit his a ways,'' Fuller said. "He was giving me crap. And, we had a little moment out there when I hit mine. He said something to me, and I said something back to him. Just fun between Legion teammates.'' Alleman coach Scott Harding was hardly smiling, though. "It's embarrassing to get 10-runned. In this league, that should never happen with your two best guys on the mound,'' Harding said. "We had (10) walks and (three) hits batsmen on the day? You can't do that in this league and win baseball games. You can't do that in a regional or you'll get beat. You can't give that lineup this many opportunities. But we'll get better.'' O'Keeffe was the lone highlight for Alleman, going 3-for-7 with two runs scored and three RBIs. Doug Noe, Taner Ledezma and Daniel Nonnenmann also had two hits each. ``I'm not usually one to throw a lot of compliments out,'' Lindauer said. ``But, boy were we good. I loved our middle of the lineup, and Lewis and Jasper on the backend got some big hits. And our starting pitching was just lights out. ``I thought we did a nice job of hitting with favorable counts. We did a nice job of hitting behind runners. We had a lot of good, short swings and a lot of balls to right field on a line. It was a great day for us.''