Messenger photo by Britt Kudla Humboldt's Ellie Jacobson tries to tag out Reagan Schuttle of Center Point-Urbana on Monday in a Class state quarterfinal at Rogers Park. For more photos, please visit CU.messengernews.net

No matter what pitch Ellie Jacobson threw and no matter where she placed it, Center Point-Urbana was there to put a charge into it.

That’s the kind of night it was for the Humboldt freshman pitcher and her Wildcat teammates on Monday during a Class 3A quarterfinal on Diamond 2 at Rogers Sports Complex.

No. 8 Center-Point Urbana (30-10) unleashed an offensive explosion early and never let up in a 14-2, five-inning rout of fourth-ranked Humboldt. Eight of the nine players in the Stormin’ Pointers’ lineup had at least one hit and they finished with 16 to cruise into the state semifinals for the second time in three years.

CP-U will face top-ranked and predominant favorite Davenport Assumption (42-1) on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.

Humboldt (31-4) attempts to regroup and battle back for fifth place on Wednesday. It will take on ninth-ranked West Marshall (33-7) in a consolation semifinal at 10 a.m.

Jacobson was on the hook for all 16 hits and 14 runs. The Wildcats played without an error, but had no answer for the CPU bats.

“It was just their night offensively,” Humboldt head coach Doug Van Pelt said. “I thought we made some really nice pitches in the first inning and they fisted them somewhere we weren’t.

“Sometimes you have to take your hat off and give them a bow.”

Claire Holtz, one of seven seniors on the CPU roster, went 4 for 4 with a double, two-run home run and six RBI. Lead-off stick Olivia Brecht, a junior, was also perfect at 3-for-3 with a three-run dinger and four RBI.

“We have seven seniors and we had no nerves at all,” said Holtz, who hit a check-swing bomb to right-center in the fifth inning. “Not being able to come here last year just set the bar so much higher for us. We wanted this so bad all year and just making it here wasn’t enough.”

Katelyn Banning put together a 3-for-4 night with a pair of doubles — her fifth-inning lead-off blast to center missed exiting the park by inches — an RBI and three runs scored. Megan Crohan added a pair of singles at the bottom of the order.

CPU plated four first-inning runs on five hits. Banning’s first double of the contest — a liner down the left-field line — plated Brecht with the game’s first run, and the Pointers were off.

Holtz finished the blitz with a laser into left that brought two more runs around to the plate.

Humboldt answered in the bottom of the frame and scored both of its runs with two outs. Avery Terwilliger beat out an infield single and then raced around from second two batters later on a Mady Lange single to center. Jacobson, aboard after being plunked by a pitch, got aggressive on the bases and slid in safely as Lange forced a rundown between first and second to cut CPU’s lead to 4-2.

“I’m very proud of our kids to come back in the bottom of the first inning and respond with two runs and make it a ballgame again,” Van Pelt said.

CPU tacked on three more runs in the third courtesy of Brecht’s mammoth shot to left that made it 7-2.

“We just came in and did our thing,” Brecht, who also hit a home run in CPU’s quarterfinal win over Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley at the 2015 state tournament, said. “We come out, we square up the ball and wherever it goes is wherever it goes.”

Pointers’ pitcher Bailey Smith was in charge after the first inning. She sat down 11 of the final 12 batters she faced and limited Humboldt to just three singles. Taylor Gidel added a line-drive base knock to left in the second.

Van Pelt is confident his veteran ballclub will regroup in time for Wednesday’s contest with West Marshall.

“This will be flushed (Tuesday) morning, and we’ll refocus and go,” he said. “We have so much to play for, and these seniors aren’t going to let this one define them.”

CPU 14, Humboldt 2 (5 inn)

CPU 403 52–14 16 0

Humboldt 200 00 — 2 3 0

Bailey Smith and Claire Holtz. Ellie Jacobson, Lizzie Tecklenburg (5) and Kelsey Peters. W — Smith. L — Jacobson. 2B — CPU: Katelyn Banning (2), Holtz. HR — CPU: Holtz, Olivia Brecht. RBI — CPU: Holtz (6), Brecht (4), Banning, Maddie Karr, Reagan Schutte; HUM: Mady Lange.