Perhaps you've heard the news this week that Gatorade intends to get two Pennsylvania high-school football teams together to replay their 1993 contest that ended in a tie. Call it a reality TV version of the Robin Williams-Kurt Russell buddy comedy "The Best of Times." (a sports classic, by the way).

Here in Central Illinois, we had a little better version. On Wednesday night, Olympia and host Illinois Valley Central met in a rematch of the 2008 Class 2A state-championship game. Call it the Rumble on the River. Just as it was in June, Olympia was victorious again, claiming a 6-3 win in nine innings.

The hero was Olympia sophomore outfielder Chase Hainline. With the bases loaded in the top of the ninth, Hainline came to the plate and promptly turned on a first-pitch fastball from and hammered it deep to right for a two-run double.

"He threw a fastball up," Hainline said. "I thought I got under it a little too much, but it kept carrying."

Hainline is quickly establishing himself as one of Downstate's premier prospects in the Class of 2011. As a freshman on the Spartans' state-championship team, he hit .351 and drove in 25 runs. He's a 6.8 runner with above-average arm strength, but it's his bat that impresses people the most.

The featured attraction, however, was a pitching matchup that you just don't get to see very often unless it's the postseason, and even then it's rare. Both coaches threw their aces despite that fact this was a nonconference, mid-week game.

The two seniors, IVC's Chris Razo and Olympia's Matt Frahm, didn't disappoint. Both worked the first eight innings and both allowed just four hits.

Frahm, a 6-foot-6 righty headed to Division II Lewis University in suburban Chicago, picked up the win by striking out 10 and walking five. Two of those walks came in a 33-pitch first inning in which the host Grey Ghosts scored all three of their runs, only one of which was earned. After struggling with the release point on his breaking ball in the early innings, Frahm buckled the knees of several IVC hitters with his bender. I was without my radar gun, but Frahm appeared to be working in his normal 84-86 mph range with his fastball.