Every baseball player’s dream is to be part of a big game that goes down to the last strike, the last out, in the bottom of the last inning with his team up by one. In a perfect world, said player comes through in the clutch and the team celebrates its victory.

There would be no celebrating June 6 as New Trier lost a 4-3 heartbreaker in its supersectional matchup with St. Charles North at Schaumburg Boomers Stadium in Schaumburg.

“We weren’t even supposed to be here, right?,” New Trier coach Mike Napoleon said. “We were never ranked. These guys were ranked, Oak Park was ranked. We got here with solid pitching and solid defense.”

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