For love of the game: Raiders’ year-round passion for baseball leads to unparalleled success

Quincy Notre Dame senior co-captains Jake Schisler, left, and Dalton Miller, smile as they get ready to accept the Class 2A sectional championship plaque. | Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — At the most elemental level, it’s a warehouse. The building has been remodeled and retrofitted to be a baseball haven, but the brick exterior, the large, garage-style doors and the location close to the Mississippi River suggest it once was used for storage, construction or manufacturing. The Quincy Notre Dame baseball players embrace…

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Working on a chain gang: Raiders use unique home run celebration to inject energy into state championship pursuit

Quincy Notre Dame first baseman Dalton Miller gets the gold chain put around his neck after hitting a home run against Jacksonville Routt at Ferd Niemann Jr. Memorial Ballfield. | Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — Mason Winking’s employee discount probably saved him $3 or $4 on the welded galvanized steel chain he purchased at Farm & Home Supply. Yet, the real value of those 35 gold-painted links is immeasurable. That chain is part of what links the Quincy Notre Dame baseball players so strongly together. It stands for…

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Call it a comeback: Linenfelser’s grand slam caps Raiders’ rally against Tigers, completes sweep

Quincy Notre Dame shortstop Jack Linenfelser connects for a hit during Saturday's against Macon in the QND/Palmyra Spring Slam at Ferd Niemann Jr. Memorial Ballfield. | Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — A day that began with thunder and lightning ended with the biggest bang imaginable. A historic winning streak remains intact thanks to that. Facing its second-largest deficit of the season and trailing for only the third time all season, the Quincy Notre Dame baseball team managed to end an exhausting week by erasing…

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Sixth-inning rally enables QND baseball team to run winning streak to 18 straight games

Quincy Notre Dame's Jack Linenfelser slides headfirst across home plate to score on a wild pitch with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth inning Tuesday against Macomb at Ferd Niemann Jr. Memorial Ballfield. Matt Schuckman photo

QUINCY — After Brady Kindhart led off the bottom of the sixth inning Tuesday with a double to deep center field, Jack Linenfelser stepped to the plate with one thing in mind. “Put the ball in play,” he said. The Quincy Notre Dame middle infielder did a little more than that. Linenfelser traded places with…

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