The La Porte baseball teamed moved to 5-2 in the DAC and 10-5 on the year with a 4-0 win over Chesterton Tuesday at Schreiber Field.
Senior RJ Anglin threw a two hit shutout and was in control the entire game. Chesterton’s two hits were both bloopers. In the first inning Nick Foust hit a popup to short right field. Second baseman Ben Dubbs just got a glove on it but was unable to make the catch. The Trojan’s other hit was a fisted popup to left by Rob Czarniecki that fell in front of left fielder Drew Flores. Anglin struck out eight and walked one picking up the win. He was named the Salisbury and Spence Edward Jones Player of the Game.
The La Porte offense scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning. The left handed hitting Dubbs smashed a hard grounder down the third base line. Chesterton third baseman Kaden Hawksworth knocked it down with a dive but could not complete the play giving Dubbs an infield hit. Carter Moses grounded out to shortstop with Dubbs running for the first out but moved Dubbs to second. Kade Flores drew a walk before advancing to second on the back end of a double steal with Dubbs. Anglin was caught looking for the second out before Tommy Samuelson hit a chopper that got through the second baseman scoring both Dubbs and Flores.
The Slicers scored single runs in the second and fourth innings. Drew Catron doubled to lead off the second and scored on Drew Flores’ RBI single to right to make it 3-0. Samuelson led off the fourth inning with a double. Keli Hay laid down a bunt single to put runners on first and third with no outs. With Hay running, Catron hit a hard ground ball just to the shortstop side of second right to Brayden Barrett who was moving to cover. The Trojans turned the double play but Samuelson scored making it 4-0.
LP made it interesting in the seventh. After Anglin struck out Guernsey for the first out back to back errors on ground balls put two runners on for Chesterton. Anglin got a strike out and ground out to end the game.
Samuelson was the Slicer with multiple hits with a double and single. The win keeps La Porte in second place, two games behind Lake Central in the DAC. LP will travel to Chesterton Wednesday, first pitch scheduled for 4:30.
