Baseball Recap: Griffith Sets Scoring Season-High Against Whiting

Panthers

Team Score (Highest)

05/12/25 @ Whiting	20
04/09/25 @ Hammond Central	18
04/14/25 vs River Forest	16
04/22/25 vs Lake Station Edison	14
04/15/25 @ Wheeler	11

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Griffith). They blew past the Whiting Oilers 20-1 on Monday. The Panthers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six matchups by seven runs or more this season.

Parker Hecht tossed a big game, striking out nine batters over five innings while giving up just one earned run off one hit (and only one walk). Griffith is 3-1 when Hecht allows two or fewer earned runs, but 6-8 otherwise.

At the plate, Jason Quillin was a standout: he got on base in three of his five plate appearances with three runs, one triple, and two RBI. He has become a key player for Griffith: the team is undefeated when he posts at least two runs, but 2-9 otherwise. The team also got some help courtesy of Aiden Anthony, who went 2-for-3 with three RBI, two runs, and one triple.

Griffith always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .610. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Whiting only posted an OBP of .176.

Griffith's victory ended a four-game drought on the road and puts them at 9-9. As for Whiting, their loss was their 11th straight at home dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 1-17.

Griffith will have a chance to go back-to-back against the Oilers: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday.