The Chesterton baseball team took its show on the road for the first time last weekend with a two-day trip to Lafayette and picked up a pair of wins.

The Trojans opened the weekend on Friday night with an 11-6 victory over Lafayette Harrison and followed that with a 5-1 victory over Noblesville on Saturday morning. Lafayette Jeff handed the only loss of the weekend to Chesterton, 10-0, in Saturday’s finale.

“We sorted some things out a little bit,” Chesterton coach Jack Campbell said. “Zack (Novak) was our only returning position player and Steve Janes was our only pitcher back. Most everybody else is new.

“Overall, I’m pretty pleased considering the inexperience we have out there.”

Against Lafayette Harrison, the Trojans pounded out 11 hits and put together a seven-run fourth inning to pick up the win. Jack Wilson and Frank Raudry each had a pair of hits in the victory.

“We continued our hitting barrage,” Campbell said. “ We got some key hits and ran the bases well.”

The Trojans used three pitchers as Kevin Gates picked up the win, despite the defense committing six errors.

“Kevin didn’t get ahead of a lot of hitters, but made some good pitches to get himself out of things,” Campbell said. “Almost all of our errors were throwing errors. That happens sometimes when you’ve been inside a lot.”

The Trojans (3-1) offense stayed hot on Saturday morning as they collected nine hits in picking up the victory over Noblesville. John Thanos went 3-for-3 with three singles.

“We got hits when we needed them,” Campbell said.

Steve Janes got the start and worked two innings and allowed just one hit. Glenn Peterson came on in relief to pick up his first varsity win.

“We started Steve and got him a couple of innings,” Campbell said. “Glenn came in with five strong innings. He got ahead of hitters and we played well defensively.”

The Trojans committed just two errors and saw great defensive plays made by Gates (shortstop), Raudry (third base) and Ryan Lindquist (second base).

In game three, Lafayette Jeff jumped on top early against four Chesterton pitchers and silenced the Trojans’ hot bats.

Chesterton picked up just four hits, two of those by Zack Novak, in the loss.

“The idea in the first five games was to get all out pitchers on the mound,” Campbell said. “We’re carrying 10 and we needed to see what everybody can do.”

Chesterton returns to the field on Tuesday when they open to Duneland Athletic Conference play against Valparaiso at CHS.

The first pitch is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.

Chesterton 11, Lafayette Harrison 6

SCORING BY INNINGS

Chesterton 013 700 0 -- 11 11 6

Laf. Harrison 200 202 0 -- 6 5 0

2B -- Zack Novak, Frank Raudry, Kevin Gates (C); Ryan Black 2, Ayrton Siple (LH). Pitching Summary -- Chesterton -- Kevin Gates ( 3 1/3 IP, 3 K, 3 BB), Evan Parana (2 2/3 IP, 4 K, 2 BB), Glenn Peterson (1 IP, 2 K, 1 BB); Lafayette Harrison -- Shane Sullivan (3 1/3 IP, 3 K, 3 BB), Rob McConnell (1/3 IP, 0 K, 2 BB), Austin Schutter (3 1/3 IP, 4 K, 0 BB). WP -- Gates (1-0). LP -- Sullivan.

Chesterton 5, Noblesville 1

SCORING BY INNINGS

Noblesville 001 000 0 -- 1 2 3

Chesterton 001 301 x -- 5 9 2

2B -- Frank Raudry (C). 3B -- Ryan Wides (N). Pitching Summary -- Noblesville -- Andy Hays (4 IP, 8 H, 0 K, 1 BB), Solomon Reynolds (2 IP, 1 H, 0 K, 0 BB); Chesterton -- Steve Janes (2 IP, 1 H, 1 K, 0 BB), Glenn Peterson (5 IP, 1 H, 1 K, 3 BB). WP -- Peterson (1-0). LP -- Hays (1-1).

Lafayette Jeff 10, Chesterton 0

SCORING BY INNINGS

Chesterton 000 00 -- 0 4 5

Lafayette Jeff 143 02 -- 10 8 0

2B -- Jeff McNeely, Timmy Horner, Al Clark, Logan Frederick (LJ). 3B -- Jeff McNeely (LJ). Pitching Summary -- Chesterton -- Ryan Lindquist (1 2/3 IP, 5 H, 1 K, 2 BB), Nick Sharp (2/3 IP, 1 H, 1 K, 2 BB), Sloane Malay (1 2/3 IP, 1 H, 3 K, 0 BB), Zack Novak (1/3 IP, 1 H, 1 K, 0 BB); Lafayette Jeff -- Jeff McNeely (5 IP, 4 H, 7 K, 0 BB). WP -- McNeely (1-0). LP -- Lindquist (0-1).

Posted 4/7/2008