No. 10 Lyons Township Walks Off On Downers Grove North In Extra's

May 15, 2017

By Drew Locascio
Illinois Scouting Director

Lyons Township 2, Downers Grove North 1 (10 innings)

LAGRANGE, IL – No. 10 Lyons Township hosted Downers Grove North on Monday afternoon and eventually came away with a walk-off 2-1 win in 10 innings.

With a runner on second base and two outs in the 10^th inning, lead-off batter, Wyatt Tawse, singled to center field, scoring JonLuca Moschetto, a Carthage College commt, rather easily, for the walk-off extra-inning victory. The frame started promising when Michael Courtney led off with a walk. The following batter, Drew Mrazek laid down a sacrifice bunt and was tagged out at first. In the meantime, Courtney got aggressive and tried to go first to third on the play but was thrown out at the third for the double play. Moschetto started it back up for Lyons with a clean single and quickly stole second. Tawse then delivered the clutch single to walk-it-off.

Lyons Township (21-4-1) struck first in the bottom of the first inning when Matt Phillipp drove in Jack Ferraro with a two-out single to center field.

Downers Grove North (17-13) answered back with one run of their own in the top of the second. Eric Browning reached on an error and later scored on a Sam Cogger groundball fielder’s choice.

That would be it for the scoring as both starting pitchers were on their game and pitched deep into the ballgame.

Senior Nick Taviani started for Downers Grove North. The right-hander threw eight innings on 97 pitches, scattered five hits, allowed one unearned run, struck out five and walked one. Taviani worked behind a fastball that sat 81-84 throughout and a slider that he consistently mixed in for strikes at 74-76 mph.

Lyons Township countered with Sophomore, right-hander Grant Leader. The Illinois commit was just as impressive, going seven complete on 96 pitches, scattering seven hits, one unearned run, struck out nine and walked only one as well. Leader kept hitters off balance with a live fastball that sat anywhere from 86-89 mph, touching 90 at one point and mixing in two different breaking balls. Leader seemingly was able to throw his curveball and slider for a strike at any point and in any count.

Lyons Township turned to senior Ian Delleman to go the final three innings of the game out of the bullpen. The Kirkwood CC commit, sat anywhere from 84-87 mph, touching 88 and mixed in a sharp curveball at 73-75 mph. Delleman went three innings, scattered two hits, struck out three and walked two intentionally.

Phillipp led the way offensively for Lyons Township with two hits and an RBI. Trey Romay, a Wisconsin-Whitewater commit and Nolan Young each had two hits for Downers Grove North.

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