Riding the storm out: QND baseball team beats rain, Shelbyville to earn spot in sectional championship game

Quincy Notre Dame second baseman Jack Linenfelser, right, and shortstop Alex Connoyer, center, react after Linenfelser tagged out Shelbyville's Kade Allen on a stolen base attempt to end the fifth inning of Wednesday's Class 2A sectional semifinal at Reiser Field in Pleasant Plains, Ill. Matt Schuckman photo

PLEASANT PLAINS, Ill. — The darkening clouds rolling in from the northeast mimicked the situation the Quincy Notre Dame baseball team faced. Ominous, very ominous. “I kept looking over my shoulder and seeing those clouds coming closer and closer to the point you see the line of rain at the right-field fence,” said Jack Linenfelser,…

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