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Merrillville Rensselaer Central

Pirates

Bombers

The Rensselaer Central (Rensselaer, IN) varsity baseball team lost Friday's home non-conference game against Merrillville (IN) by a score of 14-12.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Merrillville	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	-	-
Rensselaer Central	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-

Recap
Box Score
Matchup

Game Stats

Merrillville (21-22)

Merrillville has not entered stats for this game.

Rensselaer Central (21-22)

Rensselaer Central

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B
	Team Totals	.250	44	28	12	7	10	1
1	Kelton Hesson (Sr)	.750	5	4	1	3	4	1
2	Teagan Brown (Sr)	.333	5	3	2	1	1	0
3	Jace ONeill (So)		0	0	2	0	0	0
4	Lakin Webb (Sr)	.000	5	2	1	0	0	0
5	Ryan Kellnmer (Fr)	.000	4	3	1	0	0	0
6	Kenseth Johns (Sr)	.500	5	2	3	1	1	0
7	Cohen Craig (Jr)	.000	5	3	0	0	0	0
10	Ethan Pickering (Jr)	.333	5	3	0	1	2	0
15	Jacob Pickering (Sr)	.000	5	4	2	0	1	0
35	Colton Metzger (So)	.250	5	4	0	1	1	0

Rensselaer Central

#	Athlete Name	SF	BB	K	HBP	ROE	FC	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	2	11	7	3	2	2	11	.477	.285	.763
1	Kelton Hesson (Sr)	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	.800	1.000	1.800
2	Teagan Brown (Sr)	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	.400	.333	.733
4	Lakin Webb (Sr)	0	3	1	0	0	0	1	.600	.000	.600
5	Ryan Kellnmer (Fr)	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	.250	.000	.250
6	Kenseth Johns (Sr)	0	2	1	1	0	0	3	.800	.500	1.300
7	Cohen Craig (Jr)	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	.400	.000	.400
10	Ethan Pickering (Jr)	0	2	2	0	0	0	4	.600	.333	.933
15	Jacob Pickering (Sr)	0	1	2	0	1	1	6	.200	.000	.200
35	Colton Metzger (So)	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.200	.250	.450

Rensselaer Central

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	3
1	Kelton Hesson (Sr)	2
10	Ethan Pickering (Jr)	1

Rensselaer Central

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E
	Team Totals	.800	35	21	7	7
1	Kelton Hesson (Sr)	1.000	1	1	0	0
4	Lakin Webb (Sr)	.714	7	2	3	2
5	Ryan Kellnmer (Fr)	.333	3	1	0	2
6	Kenseth Johns (Sr)	1.000	5	5	0	0
7	Cohen Craig (Jr)	1.000	1	0	1	0
10	Ethan Pickering (Jr)	.929	14	10	3	1
34	Brent Harvey (So)	.500	2	1	0	1
35	Colton Metzger (So)	.500	2	1	0	1

Rensselaer Central

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	L	W%	APP
	Team Totals	3.00	1	.000	1
7	Cohen Craig (Jr)	3.50	0		1
15	Jacob Pickering (Sr)		0		1
34	Brent Harvey (So)	0.00	1	.000	1
35	Colton Metzger (So)	0.00	0		1

Rensselaer Central

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	7	7	14	3	8	11	41	32
7	Cohen Craig (Jr)	6	6	7	3	4	9	31	26
34	Brent Harvey (So)	.1	1	7	0	3	1	8	5
35	Colton Metzger (So)	.2	0	0	0	1	1	2	1

Rensselaer Central

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	HBP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.219	.390	1	142	2
7	Cohen Craig (Jr)	.231	.355	1	96	2
34	Brent Harvey (So)	.200	.500	0	36	0
35	Colton Metzger (So)	.000	.500	0	10	0

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Game Story

Indiana High School Baseball - Merrillville gets by Rensselaer Central

April 29, 2022: Rensselaer, IN 47978

Spectators at Friday's non-league battle between the Merrillville Pirates (Merrillville, IN) and the host Rensselaer Central Bombers (Rensselaer, IN), saw Merrillville's baseball squad knock off Rensselaer Central by a count of 14-12.

Coming up next, the Pirates play the Munster Mustangs (Munster, IN) in a non-league battle, on Thursday, May 5. Merrillville will attempt to move on its 7-9 season record. The Mustangs enter the battle with a 11-2 record after their 6-5 league win over Highland (Highland, IN).

The Bombers now possess a 4-8 record. They take the field next when they host West Lafayette for a Hoosier battle on Monday, May 2. Rensselaer Central will play a Red Devils squad coming off a 6-2 league win over Benton Central (Oxford, IN). The Red Devils record now stands at 8-5.

Rankings & Records

Merrillville (21-22)

IN	Class
168	75

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
8-15	3-9	4-7	4-4	0-4	.348	.250	99	199

Rensselaer Central (21-22)

IN	Class
219	46

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
12-12	2-7	4-6	8-5	0-1	.500	.222	199	203

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Merrillville	.8	.7	1.0	.8	.5	.4	.6	-	-	-	4.3	6.0	1.6
Rensselaer Central	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.3	1.7	1.1	1.8	0	0	1.0	8.3	9.8	3.8

Team Stat Comparison

Merrillville		Rensselaer Central
-	Batting Average	.314
-	On Base Percentage	.448
-	Slugging Percentage	.399
-	Fielding Percentage	.879
-	Win Loss Percentage	.478

Team Leaders

Merrillville		Rensselaer Central	National Avg.
-	Batting Average	#14 Cole Hesson.429	.249
-	On Base Percentage	#1 Kelton Hesson.548	.375
-	Slugging Percentage	#1 Kelton Hesson.571	.315
-	Fielding Percentage	#10 Ethan Pickering.982	.857
-	Win Loss Percentage	#23 Brayson Johns1.000	.539

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Merrillville	0-2		Rensselaer Central	2-1

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
4/8/22	Merrillville	Lowell	(L) 6-4	5/24/22	Rensselaer Central	Lowell	(L) 10-4
4/15/22	Kankakee Valley	Merrillville	(L) 9-6	5/7/22	Rensselaer Central	Kankakee Valley	(W) 9-3
				5/7/22	Rensselaer Central	Kankakee Valley	(W) 12-9

Record Breakdown

Merrillville (21-22)		Rensselaer Central (21-22)
8-15	Overall	12-12
3-9	League	2-7
5-5	Non-League	10-4
1-0	Head to Head	0-1
0-2	Common Opponent	2-1
4-7	Home	4-6
4-4	Away	8-5
0-4	Neutral	0-1
0-1	Playoff	0-1
8-15	In-State	12-12
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0