By Drake Skleba
For the Bugle
After scoring eight runs, in the first inning of Plainfield Central’s, 10-1 win over Plainfield North on Wednesday, the Wildcats waited a little bit longer, on Thursday. Busting open a 1-1 tie, with archrival Plainfield East (10-2, 2-1), the Wildcats put up a snowman, 8 runs, on the Plainfield Central (9-4, 2-1) scoreboard again, and went on to a 9-2 SPC win.
Senior centerfielder Nick Heffernan, led the Wildcat attack with three RBI. Shortstop Charlie Bischoff, for the third straight game, had two hits. Third baseman David Ascensio also chipped in with two hits.
Central starting pitcher junior Anthony Noble allowed a run in his five solid innings of work on the mound. Zach Rana, who pitched the sixth and seventh innings for the Wildcats, picked up the win.
Plainfield East (10-2, 2-1) was led by Dylan Carlson, who had two hits and Drew Raspolich drove home a Bengal run. Bengal starting pitcher Andrew Hoffman had a solid-five inning performance allowing just one run, with five strikeouts.
The two rivals will play at East on Monday.
SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE
Plainfield North 6, Oswego 0
Plainfield North (7-3, 2-1) bounced back from Wednesday’s loss to Plainfield Central, by blanking Oswego (6-3, 1-2), behind Eben Heine. Heine fired five shutout innings on the mound to pick up the win.
Brady Miler had three hits and two RBI to lead the Tiger attack. Gavin Doyle and Ryan Summers also drove home a pair of Tiger runs, while catcher Greg Budig, chipped in with two hits,
Plainfield South 5, Joliet West 1
The Cougars Trey Ricko fired five no-hit innings at the Tigers and settled for a two-hitter with seven strikeouts, on Thursday. Zach Pawlak, drove home a pair of Cougar runs, while the red-hot AJ Manucci, had two more hits. Junior catcher Justin McGuigan, continued his hot-hitting with another hit and an RBI and Dom Lentini chipped in with an RBI. Connor Blake also had a two-hit day for South.
Joliet West falls to 4-9 overall and 0-3 in SPC play.
Minooka 9, Joliet Central 6
Minooka (7-3, 2-1) was led by senior third baseman Cherokee Lebeau on Thursday. Lebeau had three hits and drove in four big runs, for the Indians.
Joliet Central (6-5, 0-3) was led by Jalen Green, who had two hits and drove home two Steelmen runs. Carlos Garcia added a pair of hits while Johnny Slattery. picked up an RBI.
Oswego East 14, Romeoville 6
Romeoville (1-11, 0-3) fell behind 8-1 but battled back to get six runs and nine hits, in their SPC defeat on Thursday.
WEST SUBURBAN GOLD
Downers Grove South 15, Proviso East 0 (Five Innings)
The Mustangs (6-3, 3-0) crushed Proviso East in a five-inning contest on Thursday. Joey Galvin led the DGS onslaught with two hits and three RBIs. Blair Thibault and Brett Riegler, each drove home a pair of Mustang runs.
WEST SUBURBAN SILVER
Oak Park 9, Downers Grove North 8
The Trojans (2-6, 2-2) gave the WSC Silver leaders Oak Park-River Forest (7-0, 4-0) everything they could handle on Thursday in Oak Park. Jack Carr, led the Trojan attack with two hits and three ribbies.
CENTRAL SUBURBAN CROSSOVERS
Maine South 2, Highland Park 0
Maine South (8-5, 2-0) blanked the Giants on a combined two-hit shutout from, Joe Gabel, Sean Sodaro and closer, Sam Corbett. Gabel went the first 4 2/3 innings while Sodaro shut the Giants out with 2 innings of scoreless relief. Corbett finished off the last Giant hitter in the top of the seventh.
Gabel and Torre Cecala, had RBI hits in the bottom of the sixth inning to break up a 0-0 tie and lead the Hawks to the CSL crossover win. Both Gabel and Cecala had two-hit days at the plate.
Niles West 3, Maine East 1
Niles West’s Sam Butera, put on a show on Wednesday in Skokie. Butera, fired a six-hitter at Maine East with 15 punch-outs. Butera and Andy Pabst drove home two of the three Wolf runs.
Maine East (4-4, 0-2) was led by Joe Gaiser who had two hits while Chris Illiopoulos, drove home the lone Demon run.
INTERSTATE 8 CROSSOVERS
Lisle 13, Wilmington 13 tie
Lisle (7-5-1, 2-0-1) battled to the tie before darkness called an end to the proceedings at Field No. 7 in Lisle. Zack Heidenry, drove home six of the 13 Lion runs, while Jay McGrath chipped in with two hits and two RBI.
Reed-Custer 9, Westmont 4
Westmont (7-4, 1-2) fell in Braidwood to the Comets. Caden Anderson had two hits and two RBIs to lead the Sentinels. Christian Alexander chipped in with a hit and an RBI.
NONCONFERENCE
Chicago Lab School 7, Northridge Prep 6
The Knights fell in walk-off fashion, at the Kroc Center in Chicago. Northridge Prep (7-5) was led by Matt Kelly, who had a pair of hits and two Knight RBIs. Danny Strunk, also had a pair of hits and drove home a Knight run.