Baseball Recap: Lake Park Finds Home Field Redemption Against Wheaton-Warrenville South

There's no place like home for Lake Park, who bounced back after a loss on the road on Thursday. They walked away with a 10-7 win over the Wheaton-Warrenville South Tigers on Friday. This was a revenge game for the Lancers: when they faced off against the Tigers on Thursday, they had to take a 4-3 defeat.

Anrhony Durava

Base on Balls Against

04/09/25 vs Willowbrook	4
04/28/25 vs St. Charles East	3
05/03/25 vs Glenbard North	2
04/22/25 @ Geneva	2
04/01/25 @ Owensboro Catholic	2
+ 1 more games

Anrhony Durava tossed a big game, striking out six batters over 6.1 innings while giving up five earned (and two unearned) runs off eight hits (and only one walk). He also tossed a walk, which is notable because Lake Park is 4-1 when he allows at most two walks, but 10-11 otherwise.

At the plate, the team relied heavily on Max Mohapp, who went a perfect 2-for-2 with two doubles, one stolen base, and two RBI. That's the most doubles he has posted since back in April. Chris Ray was another key player, going 1-for-3 with one stolen base, two RBI, and one run.

Lake Park was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .375. They are a perfect 4-0 when they post a batting average of .375 or better.

Lake Park pushed their record up to 14-12 with the victory, which was their fourth straight at home. Those home wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 7.5 runs over those games. As for Wheaton-Warrenville South, they now have a losing record of 12-13.

Lake Park will have a chance to go back-to-back against the Tigers: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday.