Illinois high school baseball teams are now in a 1 game series for the rest of this year and Coach Arnie Gonzalez may have breathed a little easier after his Silver Streaks showed up to the semi-finals of the IHSA 3A regional baseball tournament with baseball fundamentals subconsciously on their mind in yesterday’s match-up with the Peoria Richwoods Knights . Pitching and hitting were most likely what the crowd may have noticed in 7 innings of play, but myself, I enjoyed not seeing those irritating “unforced” errors that make coaches spit blood and cause teammates to look down in disgust while kicking at the dirt. Galesburg’s Carson Cheesman for the most part had nice control, but seemed to be a bit pumped up for the game, and at times, was throwing high to the Peoria batters. Richwoods’ pitcher Zach Boland (has a great pick off move to 1st base) had the Streaks sort of stymied for the first few innings while still providing his team a chance to come back from 2-0, but after seeing a few of  his pitches, the Streaks soon got in a “swing” and started pounding out hits when needed, not a bunch of long ball doubles, triples or clear the fence type of hits, but just keep the ball in play…you know those annoying, GPS guided, speed demons that get just pass the leather of the defender’s outstretched arm kind of hits that just wear your opponent down.  Galesburg’s “Feeling the Force” Luke Ryan came in to close out the final inning for the Streaks. Galesburg defeats Peoria 7-0 and will play Dunlap on Saturday at 11:00 (AM for those living in a different world) at Sundberg Field. See more images here.