Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Lockport). They walked away with an 8-3 victory over the Naperville Central Redhawks on Saturday. This was payback for the Porters, who suffered a 3-2 loss the last time these two teams met.
Lockport got a great performance from Trace Schaaf as he pitched five innings while giving up just two earned (and one unearned) runs off four hits. The dominant performance also gave Schaaf a new career-high in strikeouts (five).
Logan Nagle
| 04/12/25 vs Naperville Central | 3 |
| 04/05/25 vs Minooka | 2 |
| 04/11/25 vs Sandburg | 1 |
| 03/31/25 vs Oak Park-River Forest | 1 |
On the hitting side, Logan Nagle was excellent, scoring a run while going 2-for-3. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in RBI (three). David Kundrat was another key player, scoring two runs while going 3-for-4.
The win made it two in a row for Lockport and bumps their season record up to 8-3. It's not like the team was facing easy opposition over that stretch either, as it included 7-3 Sandburg (their opponents had an average overall winning percentage of 60% over those games). As for Naperville Central, they moved to 5-5 with that defeat, which also ended their three-game winning streak.
Coming up, Lockport will face off against Sandburg at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. As for Naperville Central, they will look to defend their home field on Monday against Neuqua Valley at 4:30 p.m.
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