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MICHIGAN CITY – Marquette was one of the biggest surprises of the 2023 state tournament, a 5-9 regular-season team that won its first sectional in 16 years and its first regional in 19.

“It was once in a lifetime. It’ll probably never happen again at this school, especially for baseball,” senior Toby Lowry said. “We started out 0-5, we never would have thought at the start of the season; dude, we made it all the way here, no way.”


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