Knowing the moves the Minooka varsity baseball team made during the offseason to get back on the road for a deep run in the post-season, their energy came a little short coming into the Oswego game that lasted over five days. 

The game finished in a 6-5 loss against Oswego that started on Friday, April 21.  It was stopped because of bad weather, and later rescheduled to finish on Wednesday, April 26. They ended up playing a staggering 16 innings, so the game was definitely well hard-fought throughout. 

Runs were scored by Noah Munson, Sully Minor, Dylan Mroz, Andrew Forillo, and Nate George. Nathan McBroom also helped Minooka score 5 runs by having 3 RBI’s and 3 hits.

Head coach Jeff Petrovic agreed that the team started acting rather sluggish unexpectedly, after a quite impressive start to the season.

“We are struggling a bit right now as a team and expended a lot of pitching and energy in the Oswego series, and it stings not to walk away with a win,” Petrovic said.

The team had started 12-1-1 before the Oswego series came along. The team’s record has dropped to 13-8-1 ever since performing the way they have been since April 14. They picked up a win over Plainfield North 3-0 on May 2. 

Sully Minor, whose battle toward breaking the team’s struggling performance unfortunately wasn’t quite enough against Oswego, despite scoring 1 of 5 runs that game.  He thinks the pitchers pitched a good game, which turned out to be not good enough, seeing the 6 runs they gave up.

“We ended up playing 16 innings in that game so we definitely fought hard the whole game. It was a battle and our pitchers pitched really well. They just happened to get some timely hits and we couldn’t answer,” Minor said.