Monday’s playoff game started with a shock to the system. Central City, which won five games in the regular season jumped to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning over 16-game winner Nashua-Plainfield. The Huskies answered back with only 2 runs in the bottom half. Then, N-P starting pitcher Dawson Glaser reset and threw shutout baseball the rest of the way, leading the Huskies to a 6-3 victory at East Buchanan High School in the Class 1A Substate 3 District 5 first round. He finished with 12 strikeouts in seven innings, giving up one base on balls … Continue reading Huskies advance to 2nd round of baseball playoffs

West Fork batters took what Nashua-Plainfield pitchers gave up and erased a 5-run deficit over the 4th and 5th innings Wednesday at Stan Burkle Field. The Huskies came to the plate in the bottom of the 6th tied 9-9. N-P rebuilt a 2-run cushion when Wyatt Bouillon hit a run-scoring double and then scored on a line drive by Landon Pratt. Eli Kalainoff, pitching in relief, shut down West Fork in the 7th to get the 11-9 win. This story will be updated when statistics are available. Continue reading WF gives N-P a scare, but Huskies win at home

You can’t start any faster. One pitch. One hit. One run. For the second-time this season, Nashua-Plainfield lead off hitter Eli Kalainoff opened a game with a solo home run. On Monday, he sent the first Central Springs pitch over Stan Burkle Field’s centerfield fence. The Huskies (12-4) went on to beat the Panthers (4-13) 11-1 in six innings in a rebound from Friday’s 9-0 road loss to conference leader Newman Catholic, Tucker Franzen got the win by striking out seven and giving up only three singles. He walked one batter and hit one. Video highlights It was a big … Continue reading N-P wins 12th of season, 11-1

Nashua-Plainfield has reached double-digit wins for the season as they barrel toward a showdown with the conference leader. The Huskies (10-3) defeated Northwood-Kensett, 12-1 in five innings at Stan Burkle Field behind a seven strikeout performance by junior Tucker Franzen. He gave up two hits and 1 earned run. The Huskies jumped to a 7-0 lead in the 1st inning, scoring 2 more in the 3rd and 3 in the 4th. Huskies Bo Harrington and Landon Pratt were perfect at the plate, each going 3-for-3. Harrington batted in 3 runs, scored 2 and hit a triple. Pratt had 1 RBI, … Continue reading Huskies baseball wins 3rd straight

ROCKFORD — Eli Kalainoff wasted no time. In Monday’s first at bat, he planted a home run ball in the corn behind Rockford’s left field fence. An inning later, the freshman did it again, this time adding 2 runs to Nashua-Plainfield’s burgeoning box score. The Huskies went on to defeat the Warriors 18-0 in five innings as sophomore Dawson Glaser delivered an eight-strikeout performance in which he face only 16 batters, just one more than perfection. Offensively, Glaser and Kalainoff each had 4 runs batted in. Senior Bo Harrington and junior Tucker Franzen each drove in 2 runs. Seniors Landon … Continue reading Kalainoff homers twice in N-P’s win in Rockford