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QUINCY — Peter McManus missed his favorite player. McManus, 48, became a fan of Tyler Clark-Chiapparelli during the 2019 season for the Quincy Gems. No summer collegiate baseball leagues had games in 2020, and Clark-Chiapparelli started the 2021 summer season with the Morehead City (N.C.) Marlins of the Coastal Plain League. McManus, who is developmentally…
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QUINCY — Matt Schark’s walk-up music was changed before he stepped to the plate with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. The catchy children’s song “Baby Shark” blared instead throughout QU Stadium’s loudspeakers. Three pitches later, Schark had taken a bite out of the Springfield Sliders. Schark belted a home run to…
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QUINCY — Kasey Schuster grew up near 14th and Oak and remembers spending much of his childhood on the basketball court at Berrian Park on Quincy’s northwest side. “We would walk down here and play, and when I eventually moved out of the neighborhood, I would still come down here and play,” he said. “On…
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ALTON, Ill. — Sunday night’s Prospect League game at Hopkins Field between the Alton River Dragons and Quincy Gems was suspended after four innings because of lightning and rain, with the host team leading 4-3. The game will be completed at a later date in Quincy because the Gems do not return to Alton this…
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QUINCY — Dane Thomas’ single to left field scored the tying and go-ahead runs in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Quincy Gems defeated the Clinton LumberKings 4-3 in a Prospect League game on Saturday night at QU Stadium. Jack Payne picked up his first victory of the season after he pitched a…
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QUINCY — The Quinsippi Soccer League has been a part of Brad Burghart’s life since he played his first game at age 7. Now 53, he is the president of the league. He’s been a member of the all-volunteer board of directors since 1992. This fall, for the first time since the league was created…
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INDIANAPOLIS – Senior pitcher Riley Martin was named the Student-Athlete of the Year in the sport of baseball by the Great Lakes Valley Conference on Friday. Twenty-two student-athletes representing nine GLVC schools were named 2020-21 Scholar-Athletes of the Year for their efforts in the classroom and on the playing field. Martin is the 15th GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the…
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O’FALLON, Mo. — After winning the first game of a Prospect League doubleheader 5-2, the Quincy Gems fell one run shy of a sweep with a 4-3 loss to the O’Fallon Hoots on Thursday night at CarShield Field. Hoots reliever Anthony Klein kept the Gems at bay in the final three innings of the second…
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QUINCY — Not even a home run with two outs in the ninth inning could spoil Hunter Wienhoff’s relief performance. The Quincy High School graduate allowed a home run to O’Fallon’s Ryan Malzahn on a 3-2 count, then struck out Cade Hohl to complete the Quincy Gems’ 4-2 victory over the Hoots in a Prospect…
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The decades old tournament wraps up in Quincy.
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QUINCY — A two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning by Zane Zielinski broke a 3-3 tie and gave the Burlington Bees a 5-3 victory over the Quincy Gems on Tuesday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. After Marcos Sanchez drew a one-out walk, Zielinski drove Michael Nunez’s first…
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Joel Box, who played basketball for both John Wood Community College and Quincy University and used that fame to start basketball camps and train players, faces sentencing on theft charges next month. Box was arrested in the summer of 2019 in Rockford and then pleaded guilty in March of this year to one count of…
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QUINCY — Quincy University will have two football teams playing in the same stadium starting in the fall of 2022. They will have different coaching staffs, different players, different uniforms, different leagues and will play entirely different schedules. The rules of the game will be the same except for one critical difference. No player on…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Gems led 5-4 after scoring four runs in the top of the sixth, but three Gems relievers allowed nine runs over the next three innings in a 13-5 loss to the Burlington Bees on Sunday night in a Prospect League game at Community Field. The Gems (9-11) are a game and…
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QUINCY — Connery O’Donnell pitched himself into the biggest jam of the night, and he pitched himself out of it. O’Donnell loaded the bases in the eighth inning with no outs on a hit batter, a walk and a bloop single as the Quincy Gems held on to a 4-3 lead over the Cape Catfish.…
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QUINCY — Brant Hogue pitched 6 ⅔ innings and allowed one run, and the Quincy Gems blew open a close game with eight runs in the sixth inning in a 10-2 victory over the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp on Friday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. The Gems (8-10) have won six…
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Quincy Notre Dame vs Timothy Christian live online today at 1 pm in the Class 1A semi-finals at Hoffman Estates High School. The link below is through the IHSA and it is a paid link that you must sign up for.
Read Full Article QUINCY — With one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, Matt Schark singled past a drawn-in infield to score Jake Skrine with the winning run as the Quincy Gems defeated the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp 7-6 in a Prospect League game Thursday night at QU Stadium. Skrine, who is hitting .500 but doesn’t…
Read Full Article PERU, Ill. — The Quincy Gems were no match for Ryan Eiermann, who pitched 7⅔ innings of shutout baseball as the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp won 2-0 on Wednesday night in a Prospect League game at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Eiermann struck out 12 Gems in the game. His 43 strikeouts in 26 innings lead the…
Read Full Article PERU, Ill. — Starter Ryan Towers pitched 6 ⅓ innings, and the Quincy Gems took the lead for good with a three-run sixth inning in a 6-3 victory over the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp in a Prospect League game on Tuesday night at Veterans Memorial Park. The Gems have won four of their last six…
Read Full Article NORMAL, Ill. — Matt Schark hit a pair of two-run homers to move into a tie for the Prospect League lead as the Quincy Gems knocked off the Normal CornBelters 13-7 on Saturday night in the Corn Crib. Schark hit his fifth home run of the season, a two-run blast, after Danny Sperling walked to…
Read Full Article ALTON, Ill. — The Quincy Gems trailed 8-1 after three innings and never recovered in an 11-6 loss to the Alton River Dragons on Friday night at Lloyd Hopkins Field in a Prospect League game. Starting pitcher Matt Shover took the loss, allowing five hits, four walks and eight runs in three innings. Zach Carden…
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QUINCY — Masen Palmier finally slowed down the Quincy Gems. The Gems had scored 47 runs in their last three games, but Palmier shut out the Gems for the first six innings as the O’Fallon Hoots won 5-1 on Thursday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. Palmer allowed four hits and four…
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ALTON, Ill. — The Quincy Gems continued their torrid hitting pace on Wednesday night, pounding out 18 hits and winning their second consecutive game by the 10-run rule in a 16-4 decision over the Alton River Dragons in a Prospect League game at Lloyd Hopkins Field. The Gems (4-8) have collected 51 hits and scored…
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QUINCY — The Quincy Gems lost eight of their first 10 games, but new faces in the lineup may be helping turn their season around. Five players in Tuesday night’s lineup were either playing their first or second game for the Gems this summer. They combined for 12 hits and 11 runs in a 16-3…
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