A day to remember

This has been a crazy week of prep sports. Thursday was just plain insane.

The Rant is still tryin’ to catch his breath, and get the dust and dirt out of his mouth and eyes, after a memorable day of wind-blown games.

Lets try to recap just some of the Thursday madness:

The Rant has never seen back-to-back-to-back home runs in a prep baseball game, but that is exactly what Mac Town did in the eighth inning against The Ridge in their come-from-behind, 13-10 win. That’s after they scored five runs in the seventh inning to tie the game and eventually send it to extras.

The Warriors and the Wolves combined for 30 hits, seven home runs and four errors.

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The south side Gators got a big win against Grayslake Old, scoring seven runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to take a 9-7 lead. They went on to win the game, but not without more drama.

In the top of the seventh inning, one of the Rams assistant coaches argued a call at first base and got tossed by the first base ump. The crazy thing is that the ump was so ticked off at the assistant coach that he made him and the head coach, Troy Whalen, who was coachin’ third base, stay in the dugout for the rest of the game. Not sure if they had to sit in the corner, too.

The Rams did lose the game and it was strange seein’ runners on base with no coaches out there to do their thing.

By the way, there were three home runs in that game.

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Burlington Central had 22 runs on 20 hits against Marengo in just five innings.

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In the circle, Harvard’s Lindsay Melson tossed a one-hitter and lost to North Boone, 4-3. None of the four runs was earned and the Hornets committed six errors. Ouch.