The Triton College baseball team is still in the mix for the No. 2 seed and potential home game to open the Region 4 Division I Tournament set to begin on May 9. The Trojans picked up their third regional win in a row after taking care of Elgin Community College 10-0 April 29 at Symonds-Puckett Field.
The Trojans with 5 games remaining in the regular season have closed to gap in their late season push to surpass South Suburban College for the two seed.
Triton looked like the team they envisioned at the start the season before injuries hampered the squad. Now as the playoffs approach, the Trojans are getting healthy and showed the part against the Spartans in a game moved to River Grove the morning of the contest due to unplayable field conditions at Elgin from the heavy rains overnight.
A five-run third set the tone for a dominating afternoon all-around for Triton.
Donny Tober got things going with a double to left and scored the games first run on a
Ryne Lesnik RBI single to right. Lesnik would later on an
Alex Chaltin RBI single to make it 2-0. Then
Jason Sullivan capped the frame with a two-out three-run home run to left to give the Trojans a comfortable 5-0 advantage.
Triton would add three more runs in the fifth inning to break the game wide open.
Brady Small led off the home half of the sixth with a solo homer to left and then Tober ended matters via the run-rule in the seventh with an RBI double deep to center that drove in
Keyber Rodriguez who led the inning off with a double of his own.
The Trojans received excellent pitching as
Cody Bledsoe and
Bobby Lane combined for the shutout. Bledsoe earned the victory going six innings, allowed only two hits, no walks and nine strikeouts. Lane pitched a perfect one, two, three seventh inning.
For the game, Triton slugged out 14 hits with nine of them coming for the bottom four of the starting lineup of
Deeiby Garcia, Rodriquez, Tober and Lesnik.
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