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Lake Central Merrillville

Indians

Pirates

The Merrillville (IN) varsity baseball team lost Saturday's neutral playoff game against Lake Central (St. John, IN) by a score of 10-0.

This game is a part of the "2023-24 IHSAA Class 4A Baseball State Tournament - S1 | Munster ".

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Lake Central	0	5	0	1	2	2	-	10	8	0
Merrillville	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	0	3	2

Final score provided by M. Swartzentruber.

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Game Stats

Lake Central (23-24)

Lake Central

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	3B
	Team Totals	.364	34	22	10	8	7	1
1	Griffin Tobias (Sr)	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0
3	Drew Arnold (Sr)		1	0	1	0	0	0
4	M. Szatkowski (Sr)	1.000	3	1	1	1	1	0
5	Ryder Fernandez (Jr)	1.000	4	2	3	2	0	1
6	V. Villegas (So)	.500	2	2	0	1	0	0
7	Quinn O'Bryan (Sr)	.000	4	1	0	0	1	0
9	Drew Kosteba (Jr)	.250	4	4	1	1	0	0
10	Jacob Zimmerman (Jr)	1.000	1	1	0	1	1	0
11	Jake Figg (Jr)	.000	1	1	1	0	0	0
12	Brenden Smith (Sr)	.000	2	2	0	0	0	0
15	Luke Halfeldt (Jr)	.000	2	1	0	0	0	0
16	Nick Robinson (Sr)	.500	3	2	2	1	2	0
18	Tyler Colburn (Jr)	1.000	2	1	0	1	2	0
19	Parker Robinson (Fr)	.000	2	1	1	0	0	0

Lake Central

#	Athlete Name	SF	BB	K	HBP	ROE	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	8	4	3	1	17	.559	.454	1.014
1	Griffin Tobias (Sr)	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000
3	Drew Arnold (Sr)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.000		1.000
4	M. Szatkowski (Sr)	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
5	Ryder Fernandez (Jr)	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.000	3.000
6	V. Villegas (So)	0	0	0	0	0	2	.500	.500	1.000
7	Quinn O'Bryan (Sr)	1	2	0	0	0	3	.500	.000	.500
9	Drew Kosteba (Jr)	0	0	1	0	0	2	.250	.250	.500
10	Jacob Zimmerman (Jr)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
11	Jake Figg (Jr)	0	0	1	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000
12	Brenden Smith (Sr)	0	0	2	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000
15	Luke Halfeldt (Jr)	0	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.000	.500
16	Nick Robinson (Sr)	0	0	0	1	1	1	.667	.500	1.167
18	Tyler Colburn (Jr)	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
19	Parker Robinson (Fr)	0	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.000	.500

Lake Central

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	9
5	Ryder Fernandez (Jr)	2
7	Quinn O'Bryan (Sr)	1
9	Drew Kosteba (Jr)	1
11	Jake Figg (Jr)	1
16	Nick Robinson (Sr)	3
19	Parker Robinson (Fr)	1

Lake Central

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A
	Team Totals	1.000	25	18	7
4	M. Szatkowski (Sr)	1.000	2	1	1
5	Ryder Fernandez (Jr)	1.000	3	2	1
6	V. Villegas (So)	1.000	1	0	1
7	Quinn O'Bryan (Sr)	1.000	3	0	3
9	Drew Kosteba (Jr)	1.000	1	1	0
10	Jacob Zimmerman (Jr)	1.000	1	1	0
12	Brenden Smith (Sr)	1.000	5	5	0
15	Luke Halfeldt (Jr)	1.000	8	8	0
19	Parker Robinson (Fr)	1.000	1	0	1

Lake Central

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	W	W%	APP	SV
	Team Totals	1	1.000	2	1
21	Grant Mercer (Jr)	1	1.000	1	0
25	Collin Cirks (Sr)	0		1	1

Lake Central

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	6	3	2	8	22	20
21	Grant Mercer (Jr)	4	1	1	6	14	13
25	Collin Cirks (Sr)	2	2	1	2	8	7

Lake Central

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.150	.227	1	76	1
21	Grant Mercer (Jr)	.077	.143	0	49	1
25	Collin Cirks (Sr)	.286	.375	1	27	0

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Merrillville (23-24)

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Game Story

Indiana High School Baseball - Merrillville loses to Lake Central

May 25, 2024: St. John, IN 46373

The Lake Central Indians baseball team scored 10 runs and limited the visiting Merrillville Pirates to 0 in the Indians non-league victory on Saturday.

The Indians (20-9) will now prepare for their match against Hobart (Hobart, IN). The Brickies go into the non-league outing with a 16-10 record. In their last outing, Hobart knocked off Hammond Central (Hammond, IN), 15-3, in a non-league outing.

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Rankings & Records

Lake Central (23-24)

IN	Class
3	3

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
25-9	10-4	12-3	5-4	8-2	.735	.714	233	71

Merrillville (23-24)

IN	Class
231	79

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
5-19	1-13	2-8	2-10	1-1	.208	.071	74	248

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	R	H	E
Lake Central	1.7	.7	1.4	1.1	.7	1.1	.3	0	1.3	0	0	1.0	6.9	7.7	.8
Merrillville	.4	.7	.8	.3	.3	.9	.4	-	-	-	-	-	3.1	4.3	2.3

Head-to-Head

Lake Central won on 4/2/2024

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Lake Central 15 1 0 2 0 - - 18 11 0
Merrillville 0 0 0 0 0 - - 0 1 4

The Lake Central (St. John, IN) varsity baseball team won Tuesday's away conference game against Merrillville (IN) by a score of 18-0.
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Lake Central won on 4/2/2024

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Merrillville 0 0 0 0 1 - - 1 4 0
Lake Central 6 2 3 8 2 - - 21 20 0

The Merrillville (IN) varsity baseball team lost Tuesday's away conference game against Lake Central (St. John, IN) by a score of 21-1.
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Lake Central won last month

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Lake Central 0 5 0 1 2 2 - 10 8 0
Merrillville 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 3 2

The Lake Central (St. John, IN) varsity baseball team won Saturday's neutral playoff game against Merrillville (IN) by a score of 10-0.
Box score

4/2 @ 4:30p	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Lake Central	15	1	0	2	0	-	-	18	11	0
Merrillville	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	0	1	4

4/2 @ 4:30p	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Merrillville	0	0	0	0	1	-	-	1	4	0
Lake Central	6	2	3	8	2	-	-	21	20	0

Team Stat Comparison

Lake Central		Merrillville
.271	Batting Average	.201
.395	On Base Percentage	.314
.344	Slugging Percentage	.267
.966	Fielding Percentage	.876
.719	Win Loss Percentage	.200

Team Leaders

Lake Central		Merrillville	National Avg.
#18 Tyler Colburn.500	Batting Average	#12 Tre'Von Stephens.302	.239
#18 Tyler Colburn.700	On Base Percentage	#20 Arerion Hoover.449	.376
#18 Tyler Colburn.500	Slugging Percentage	#20 Arerion Hoover.500	.299
#1 Griffin Tobias1.000	Fielding Percentage	#12 Tre'Von Stephens1.000	.862
#13 Josh Flores1.000	Win Loss Percentage	#10 Kaleb Henry.250	.535

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Lake Central	10-4		Merrillville	1-12

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
4/9/24	Valparaiso	Lake Central	(L) 7-5	4/30/24	Merrillville	Valparaiso	(L) 10-0
4/10/24	Lake Central	Valparaiso	(L) 2-1	5/1/24	Valparaiso	Merrillville	(L) 13-0
4/16/24	Lake Central	La Porte	(W) 4-0	5/7/24	La Porte	Merrillville	(L) 18-0
4/17/24	La Porte	Lake Central	(W) 4-1	5/8/24	Merrillville	La Porte	(L) 9-0
4/24/24	Michigan City	Lake Central	(W) 26-2	5/15/24	Michigan City	Merrillville	(W) 6-3
4/24/24	Michigan City	Lake Central	(W) 14-0	5/16/24	Merrillville	Michigan City	(L) 6-3
4/30/24	Lake Central	Chesterton	(L) 8-7	4/9/24	Chesterton	Merrillville	(L) 10-0
5/1/24	Chesterton	Lake Central	(W) 3-1	4/10/24	Merrillville	Chesterton	(L) 13-2
6/3/24	Chesterton	Lake Central	(W) 2-0
5/8/24	Lake Central	Portage	(W) 8-1	4/16/24	Portage	Merrillville	(L) 16-10
5/8/24	Portage	Lake Central	(W) 3-0	4/17/24	Merrillville	Portage	(L) 5-2
5/14/24	Crown Point	Lake Central	(W) 3-2	4/23/24	Merrillville	Crown Point	(L) 10-0
5/15/24	Lake Central	Crown Point	(L) 3-2	4/24/24	Crown Point	Merrillville	(L) 9-0
5/27/24	Lake Central	Hobart	(W) 4-0	3/25/24	Hobart	Merrillville	(L) 10-0

Record Breakdown

Lake Central (23-24)		Merrillville (23-24)
25-9	Overall	5-19
10-4	League	1-13
8-4	Non-League	3-5
3-0	Head to Head	0-3
10-4	Common Opponent	1-12
12-3	Home	2-8
5-4	Away	2-10
8-2	Neutral	1-1
7-0	Playoff	1-1
24-5	In-State	5-19
1-4	Out-of-State	0-0

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Lake Central (23-24)

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Merrillville (23-24)

Indiana High School Baseball - Merrillville loses to Lake Central

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