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Plainfield Central Taft

Wildcats

Eagles

The Taft (Chicago, IL) varsity baseball team lost Saturday's home non-conference game against Plainfield Central (Plainfield, IL) by a score of 16-6.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Plainfield Central	0	0	5	3	7	1	-	16	11	3
Taft	0	0	3	3	0	0	-	6	11	8

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Plainfield Central (25-26)

Plainfield Central has not entered stats for this game.

Taft (25-26)

Taft

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI
	Team Totals	.367	32	30	6	11	6
0	Julian Muntean (Sr)	.500	4	4	1	2	1
2	I. Rodriguez (Sr)	.000	4	3	1	0	0
4	Yadiel Valentin (Jr)	.500	4	4	0	2	1
5	Carlos Gonzalez (Jr)	.750	4	4	0	3	3
9	Lucas Espinosa (Sr)	.333	4	3	2	1	0
12	Zachary West (Jr)	.000	3	3	0	0	0
18	Z. Turrentine (So)	.667	3	3	0	2	0
19	Colin Daly (Sr)	.000	3	3	0	0	0
22	G. Lampignano (Sr)	.333	3	3	0	1	1
32	A. Ricken (Jr)		0	0	2	0	0

Taft

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	ROE	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	2	6	1	8	.406	.367	.773
0	Julian Muntean (Sr)	0	1	1	3	.500	.500	1.000
2	I. Rodriguez (Sr)	1	1	0	1	.250	.000	.250
4	Yadiel Valentin (Jr)	0	1	0	4	.500	.500	1.000
5	Carlos Gonzalez (Jr)	0	0	0	1	.750	.750	1.500
9	Lucas Espinosa (Sr)	1	0	0	0	.500	.333	.833
12	Zachary West (Jr)	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000
18	Z. Turrentine (So)	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	1.334
19	Colin Daly (Sr)	0	1	0	3	.000	.000	.000
22	G. Lampignano (Sr)	0	1	0	3	.333	.333	.666

Taft

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB	SBA
	Team Totals	2
5	Carlos Gonzalez (Jr)	2

Taft

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E	DP
	Team Totals	.724	29	18	3	8	1
0	Julian Muntean (Sr)	1.000	3	3	0	0	0
4	Yadiel Valentin (Jr)	.600	5	2	1	2	1
5	Carlos Gonzalez (Jr)	.500	2	1	0	1	0
9	Lucas Espinosa (Sr)	.714	7	3	2	2	1
11	John Romano (Sr)	.000	1	0	0	1	0
12	Zachary West (Jr)	.500	2	1	0	1	1
18	Z. Turrentine (So)	1.000	6	6	0	0	0
22	G. Lampignano (Sr)	1.000	2	2	0	0	0
35	Daniel Alvarez (Sr)	.000	1	0	0	1	0

Taft

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	APP
	Team Totals	11.67	1
11	John Romano (Sr)	49.00	1
32	A. Ricken (Jr)	7.00	1
35	Daniel Alvarez (Sr)	2.33	1

Taft

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	6	11	16	10	4	6	39	33
11	John Romano (Sr)	1	6	8	7	3	2	13	10
32	A. Ricken (Jr)	2	1	3	2	1	2	11	8
35	Daniel Alvarez (Sr)	3	4	5	1	0	2	15	15

Taft

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	HBP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.333	.436	2	2	146	1
11	John Romano (Sr)	.600	.692	1	0	44	1
32	A. Ricken (Jr)	.125	.364	1	2	43	0
35	Daniel Alvarez (Sr)	.267	.267	0	0	59	0

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Game Story

Illinois High School Baseball - Plainfield Central wallops Taft

April 11, 2026: Chicago, IL 60631

The Plainfield Central Wildcats (Plainfield, IL) baseball trounced the host Taft Eagles (Chicago, IL), 16-6 in Saturday's non-league challenge.

The Wildcats now own a 4-5 record. They take the field next when they travel to Oswego East for a non-league challenge on Monday, April 13. Plainfield Central will clash with a Wolves team coming off a 5-4 non-league win over Batavia (Batavia, IL). The Wolves record now stands at 7-4.

With the defeat, Taft drops to 3-5 on the year. The Eagles travel to Lincoln Park (Chicago, IL) to clash with the Lions in a Chicago Public - Jackie Robinson North challenge on Monday, April 13. The Lions go into the challenge with a record of 3-8. Lincoln Park won 2-1 in their recent non-league challenge against Brooks (Chicago, IL)

PCHS @ Taft Baseball Game Info

Sat., Apr. 11, 2026 @ 11a

Taft High School DH

The Taft (Chicago, IL) varsity baseball team lost Saturday's home non-conference game against Plainfield Central (Plainfield, IL) by a score of 16-6.

Rankings & Records

Plainfield Central (25-26)

IL	Class
66	32

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
10-5-1	6-0	5-2-1	5-1	0-2	.656	1.000	139	112

Taft (25-26)

IL	Class
315	112

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
6-9	6-3	3-3	3-5	0-1	.400	.667	66	95

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Plainfield Central	2.2	.3	2.0	1.7	3.3	.3	0	8.7	10.0	2.4
Taft	1.4	.3	.6	.2	.7	.8	.3	4.4	5.9	1.9

Team Stat Comparison

Plainfield Central		Taft
-	Batting Average	.265
-	On Base Percentage	.362
-	Slugging Percentage	.349
-	Fielding Percentage	.923
-	Win Loss Percentage	.667

Team Leaders

Plainfield Central		Taft	National Avg.
-	Batting Average	#24 Jayse Garcia-Colon.500	.245
-	On Base Percentage	#9 Lucas Espinosa.523	.389
-	Slugging Percentage	#4 Yadiel Valentin.750	.315
-	Fielding Percentage	#0 Julian Muntean1.000	.858
-	Win Loss Percentage	#5 Carlos Gonzalez1.000	.541

Record Breakdown

Plainfield Central (25-26)		Taft (25-26)
10-5-1	Overall	6-9
6-0	League	6-3
4-4-1	Non-League	0-6
1-0	Head to Head	0-1
0-0	Common Opponent	0-0
5-2-1	Home	3-3
5-1	Away	3-5
0-2	Neutral	0-1
0-0	Playoff	0-0
10-5-1	In-State	6-8
0-0	Out-of-State	0-1