Blake Zurliene had all the answers Sunday night against Murphysboro, tossing a one-hitter in Trenton Post 778's 4-1 victory in the "Gator Classic" championship.

Post 778 won their own tournament for the second year in a row, again honoring the memory of legion baseball pioneer Ralph "Gator" Goodwin while Goodwin's sons watched from behind the backstop.

Jerry and Larry Goodwin were special guests of the program all weekend. Post 778 adopted the nickname "Gator" in honor of Ralph Goodwin shortly after his death.

"Our pitching was great all weekend, and we kept our mistakes to a minimum," said Post 778 manager Jason Satterfield. "We've got some tough games coming up, but 17-4 is pretty good. I'm really proud of our team."

Post 778 has now won 13 consecutive games.

Zurliene fanned eight in the victory. Murphysboro's only run was unearned, coming in the fourth on two Trenton errors and the visitors' only base hit.

Trenton got on the board in the first inning, when Ryan Spicer walked, advanced to second on a wild pitch, and scored on Jared Fuhler's two-out single.

In the third, Jim Ritzheimer singled and advanced to third on a wild throw, bringing up Fuhler, who lofted a run-scoring sacrifice fly.

Jameson Rakers scored Post 778's third run, singling in the fourth inning and advancing to third on a sacrifice and a stolen base before Justin Dunning's rbi single.

Trenton added an insurance tally in the sixth when Spicer executed a squeeze bunt to score Rakers, who had reached after being hit by a pitch and advanced on a wild pitch and a passed ball.

Morgan Lockowitz became the third Wesclin senior athlete to take home a "best of" honor from the Centralia Morning Sentinel, when she was named last week the girls Soccer Player of the Year for the daily newspapers' coverage area.

Lockowitz joins classmates Sheldon Ritzheimer and Justin Dunning in being honored for their superlative prep campaigns this past spring. Ritzheimer was named the Sentinel's softball player of the year, and Dunning its baseball player of the year.

Lockowitz knocked in 30 goals to go with six assists this season in leading the Warriors to a 17-5 record, the best single-season mark in the history of Wesclin soccer--girls or boys.

Her most remarkable goal came against Mater Dei, when she scored from 50 yards out just seven seconds into the game. The play set a record for the fastest goal scored in Illinois high school girls soccer history.

For her career, Lockowitz netted 93 goals and assisted on 41 goals.

She will be a scholarship player at the University of Missouri-Rolla this coming fall, after committing early to the school in order to relax and focus on her senior season.

Lockowitz was a standout in the classroom as well, sharing valedictory honors and completing her prep academic career with a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

She will major in engineering at Rolla.

Lockowitz has been playing club soccer for the past 11 years with Metro United. She plans to play this summer in the Busch Premier League in St. Louis.

Lockowitz is the daughter of Mark and Barb Lockowitz of Trenton. Her father was her high school coach.

Both father and daughter gave praise to her Wesclin teammates. "Morgan's a very good ball striker and an excellent finisher, but without her teammates she wouldn't have been in position to score that many goals," Mark Lockowitz said. "I'm proud of all our kids. We only had 12 or 13 players dress varsity so everyone had to contribute."

"My teammates were pretty amazing," said Morgan Lockowitz. "We did really well this year and had a lot of fun."

The Trenton Torpedo Swim/Dive Team had an exciting meet down at the Sparta Country Club Pool last Wednesday. After a 50 minute weather delay the meet was started. The Torpedoes won the meet and had many personal best efforts by the swimmers.

Winning medley relays:

8 and under girls: Sierra Zanger, Maddie Chapman, Gretchen Krumsieg, Katja Doebelin

9-10 boys: Tyler Woods, Blake Baer, Cameron Cathcart, Wade Rieger

9-10 girls: Alexis Strieker, Renee Rivera, Rachel Ford, Lauren Donnewald

11-12 boys: Adam Ford, Nathan Brown, Alex Timmermann, Blake Gibson

11-12 girls: Anna Quitmeyer, Zoe Christopher, Danielle Kalmer, Kami Moorhead

13-14 boys: Nick Takacs, Conward Swift, Kyle Baer, Mike Swift

13-14 girls: Maria Zagorski, Ellen Maue, Sarah Denaro, Lauren Dowd

Winning freestyle relays:

8 and under girls: Sierra Zanger, Maddie Chapman, Katja Doebelin, Gretchen Krumsieg

9-10 boys: Wade Rieger, Tyler Woods, Blake Baer, Cameron Cathcart

9-10 girls: Rachel Ford, Lauren Donnewald, Renee Rivera, Alexis Strieker

11-12 boys: Blake Gibson, Jordan Gibson, Adam Ford, Alex Timmermann

11-12 girls: Zoe Christopher, Danielle Kalmer, Kami Moorhead, Anna Quitmeyer

13-14 boys: Conward Swift, Nick Takacs, Kyle Baer, Michael Swift

13-14 girls: Sarah Denaro, Maria Zagorski, Ellen Maue, Lauren Dowd

6 and under girls: Kristina Doebelin free 1st, back 1st

7-8 boys: Jacob Brown (swimming up) free 3rd, back 3rd,

7-8 girls: Gretchen Krumsieg free 1st, fly 2nd, back 3rd; Sierra Zanger, free 4th, breast 4th; Allison Smith, free 5th, fly 3rd

9-10 boys: Blake Baer, IM 1st, fly 1st, breast 1st; Wade Rieger, free 3rd, fly 5th, breast 5th; Cameron Cathcart, free 2nd, fly 4th, breast 3rd; Will Kasson, free 5th, back 4th,

9-10 girls: Rachel Ford, IM 1st, breast 1st, Lauren Donnewald, IM 2nd, fly 2nd; Amanda Boeckman, IM 3rd, Alexis Strieker, free 1st, fly 1st; Katja Doebelin, free 2nd, back 2nd; Oceana Templin, free 3rd ; Renee Rivera, fly 3rd; Allison Hollenkamp, back 1st; Carrie Rakers, back 3rd; Zoe Conley, breast 2nd; Aspen Lohman, breast 3rd

11-12 boys: Alex Timmermann, IM 2nd, fly 1st; Nathan Brown, IM 3rd, breast 1st; Blake Gibson, IM 4th, back 2nd; Jordan Gibson, free 1st, breast 3rd; Nathan Kunz, free 3rd, back 4th; Andrew Timmermann, free 5th; Adam Ford, fly 3rd, breast 4th; Daniel Takacs, fly 4th, back 3rd

11-12 girls: Zoe Christopher, IM 1st, fly 3rd; Danielle Kalmer, IM 2nd, free 2nd, back 3rd; Kami Moorhead, IM 3rd, back 2nd, breast 2nd; Anna Quitmeyer, free 3rd, fly 2nd, breast 1st; Alexis Zanger, free 5th, fly 4th, back 4th

13-14 boys: Conward Swift, IM 1st, back 2nd, breast 1st; Kenny Krumsieg, IM 2nd, fly 3rd; Nick Takacs, free 1st, back 1st; Kyle Baer, free 2nd, fly 1st, back 3rd; Mike Swift, fly 2nd, breast 3rd,

13-14 girls: Maria Zagorski, IM 3rd, fly 4th, back 4th; Lauren Dowd, IM 4th, breast 5th; Cristina White, IM 6th, fly 3rd; Sarah Denaro, free 1st, back 1st, breast 1st; Ellen Maue, free 4th, breast 4th; Stephanie Saunders, free 6th; Kelsey Huelsmann, fly 6th, back 6th

15-18 boys: Scott Delorme, free 4th, breast 2nd, IM 1st; Mike Swift (swimming up) IM 5th; Nick Takacs (swimming up) fly 4th; Kenny Krumsieg (swimming up) back 4th; Andrew Timmermann (swimming up) breast 5th

15-18 girls: Holly Allison, IM 1st, free 1st, breast 2nd; Jenny Schuechner, IM 5th, free 5th, back 5th; Sam Crandall, free 3rd, fly 2nd, back 2nd; Stephanie Saunders (swimming up) back 4th