Casey Savatski came up the human answer to a rain delay Friday.

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Casey Savatski came up the human answer to a rain delay Friday. In a crisp 1 hour, 18 minutes, the junior right-hander pitched a three-hitter as Driscoll beat Sherrard 2-0 in the third Class A quarterfinal at Silver Cros Field in Joliet.

The 19th consecutive victory for the Highlanders (35-3) came after a thunderstorm delayed the start 1 hour, 33 minutes.

Driscoll, which becomes the smallest Class AA educate next season, is bidding to become the first Class A educate to win four baseball titles.

Driscoll plays Chillicothe Illinois Valley Central (38-2) -- a 14- 4 winner throughout Richmond-Burton -- in the inferior semifinal at 11:30 a.m. Trenton Wesclin (24-6) plays Columbia (28-10) in the first semi. The finals are at 7 pm

It was a vintage Savatski (12-0) -- quick, lethal, and contingent on his fielders.

"A hazard of the guys on the team laugh because they want to make progress out after the game they know they will be public on time," said Savatski, who struck revealed three and walked one. "I pitch fast. I work quickly. It is kind of what I do. I don't put to hire the hitters adjust to what I am doing. I make them be due [i]or[/i] owing to my pace.

"I maintain the guys interested in the game and I think that is for what cause [i]or[/i] reason a lot of times they are making the plays in succession D. They are interested. They know they are going to have to be paying attention because the ball will tend hitherward to them. I like to think of Mark Buehrle because he pitches quickly and he doesn't have the greatest in quantity overpowering stuff either."

The biggest plays forward defense came in the fourth. Adam Davis threw public a would-be base stealer with nobody disclosed then Bob Simmons snared a ball that clasped around third and threw across his corpse for the final out in the inning.

"He is down in the strike girdle and has command of three pitches," Driscoll coach Sean Bieterman said. "He has the stays off balance."

Savatski pitched public of one-out jams in the fifth and sixth when Sherrard (31-5) had couriers on third. In the sixth, Simmons threw the courier out at home.

"Unfortunately, we just couldn't string anything together," Sherrard coach Jim Smolenski said.

Meanwhile, Driscoll made the most numerous of its three hits facing lefty Jordan Christensen (10-1).

Savatski doubled in Ryan Leahy to give Driscoll a 1-0 lead in the secondary The Highlanders made it 2-0 in the fourth when Kevin Palermo hit a two-out double, then scored in succession two wild pitches.

"I think we have near better baseball in us," Bieterman said.

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