No. 7-ranked Penn saw its season come to a close on Saturday after falling to Lake Central, 6-2, in the championship game of the Class 4A baseball semistate at the Gary Steel Yards.
The Indians jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning and were able to hold down the Kingsmen offensively the rest of the game.
Penn, which finishes at 25-7, stranded 10 baserunners in the contest.
Caden Stockbridge got the start on the mound for the Kingsmen and he allowed five earned runs, seven hits, struck out five and walked four over five innings.
Penn pulled within 3-1 in the bottom of the third inning after getting an RBI double from Mason Biernacki.
The Kingsmen cut the deficit to 3-2 in the bottom of the fourth when Brody Cashen delivered a sacrifice fly.
But Penn wasn’t able to get any closer as Lake Central added a run in the fifth and scored twice in the sixth.
In the semistate semifinals, Penn wasted little time in taking command of its game against Fort Wayne Snider.
The Kingsmen, who rolled to a 16-1 win, scored nine runs in the top of the first inning. Brody Cashen three-run triple and Bennett Hartford’s two-run single highlighted the first for Penn.
In the first, Penn had eight runs on the board before the Indians recorded an out.
Yoti Limberopoulos cracked a solo homer in the second for Penn and teammate Tate Clark hit a three-run double in a four-run fifth inning.
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LAKE CENTRAL 6, PENN 2
Lake Central;300;012;0;—;6;8;1
Penn;001;100;0;—;2;6;2
Justin Makowski (W), Marc Passo (4); Cayden Stockbridge (L).
Lake Central: Hits — Jacob Forystek 2. 3B — Forystek. 2B — Brayden Walls. RBI — Connor Friesema 2. Runs — Parker Robinson 2.
Penn: 2B — Mason Biernacki.
Records: Penn 25-7, Lake Central 27-8.
PENN 16, FW SNIDER 1
Penn;921;04;—;16;10;1
Snider;010;00;—;1;4;0
Cayden Stockbridge, Anthony Biancardi (W); Pete Mohrman (L), Rayden Morrow (1), Logan Bugge (3).
Penn: HR — Yoti Limberopoulos. 3B — Mason Biernacki, Brody Cashen. 2B — Tate Clark. RBI — Cashen 4, Clark 3, Limberopoulos 2, Colton Breden 2.
