Lake Central High School

Girls' T/F Races to DAC Champions Last night, the girls' track and field team used a second place finish in the conference meet at Crown Point to finish 2nd overall in the DAC. During the regular season, the Indians finished 5-1-1: This was good enough for second. Valparaiso earned the top regular season spot at 7-0. At DACs last night, Valparaiso finished 4th allowing the Indians to leap frog them (conference meet is worth 2/3). Merrillville finished 3rd in the regular season and won the conference meet, leading them to the top spot. Below are the point scorers that helped lead LC to the 2nd place finish: 100M-Madison Parlor 6th/Morgan Williamson 8th 200M-Morgan Williamson 7th 400M-Aleena Navarro 2nd/Emma Murphy 5th 800M-Macey Thompson 1st/Brynn Hayes 2nd 1600M-Macey Thompson 1st/Lana Bruggeman 2nd 100MH-Allison Kreuger 7th/Taylor True 8th 300MH-Allison Kreuger 7th 4X100-Naomi Dilosa, Madison Parlor, Keegan McClaughlin, Morgan Williamson 4th 4X400-Brynn Hayes, Aleena Navarro, Emma Murphy, Macey Thompson 3rd 4X800-Brynn Hayes, Chloe Neal, Lana Bruggeman, Macey Thompson 1st High Jump-Nasira Callaway 3rd Pole Vault-Katelyn Smith 4th/Ireland Bonilla 5th Shot Put-Emma Reyes 2nd Discus-Emma Reyes 1st Results in MileSplit: https://in.milesplit.com/meets/754804-dac-girls-track-meet-2026-2026/results LANA BRUGGEMAN IS THE NEW DAC RECORD HOLDER IN THE 3200. SHE RAN A 10:55.42 TO BREAK THE 22 YEAR OLD RECORD. MACEY THOMPSON IS THE NEW DAC RECORD HOLDER IN THE 1600. SHE RAN A 4:55.82 TO BREAK THE RECORD. Softball Earns Guaranteed Share of DAC Conference With 2 games left to play, the Indians are 12-0 in the DAC. The next best team sits at 10-2. This ensures the Indians at least a share of the top spot. LC will play Merrillville and Valparaiso to wrap-up league play. Their magic number for the outright championship is one. Last night, LC left no doubt in the DAC as they trounced the Bulldogs 9-0. The Indians used a 3-run first inning and 6-run second inning to cruise to victory. Addy Mikolanis was the winning pitcher tossing 4 innings of scoreless relief. Mikolanis entered for Jada Lewis who worked 2 scoreless to start. Sophia Cembala worked a perfect 7th. The Indians had 11 hits. Tegan Tripp led the way with a 3-4 performance; she drove in 2 and scored 2. Sofia Beals homered and drove in 3 for LC. Madi Wainright added a pair of hits. Cali Ramirez and MaKayla Van Vossen contributed with homeruns. LC is 24-0 overall. The JV squandered a 1-0 lead late, and ultimately, they fell 3-2 in a great game. Madison Alexander had an excellent complete game, 5-hit, performance in the loss. LC mustered just 5 total hits. The Indians head to Merrillville this evening. ****HR TRACKER--SOFTBALL CLIMBS TO 4TH ALL TIME AS A TEAM WITH THEIR 62ND HR Baseball Extends Win Streak to 6 with Win Over Crown Point LC hosted the #2 team in Indiana the Crown Point Bulldogs last night. The Indians used 4 different arms to defeat the Bulldogs 4-1 in a 4-hit combined masterpiece. Marc Passo got the ball first working 2 innings, allowing one run. Anthony Sanchez earned the win with his 2 1/3 innings of 1-hit relief. JT Rozanski tossed 1 2/3 innings of no hit baseball, and Owen Kopercinski picked up the save in a scoreless 7th. Runs were at a premium in this one. LC outhit the Bulldogs 7-4. The Indians grinded at-bats against the Bulldogs ace forcing him to throw 95 pitches in just over 4 innings. Connor Friesema had the only 2-hit effort in the game. Brayden Walls added a double for LC. The Indians are 14-6 overall and 7-4 in the DAC. They'll look to draw even with Crown Point in the conference with a road win tonight. The JV Blue fell 7-4 on the road last night. Cam Bravo was the pitcher of record. Adrian Claussen had a pair of the Indians 5 hits. LC is 15-3-1 on the season. Boys' Golf Wins at Home vs Portage The boys' golf team fired a 150 to knock off the visiting Portage Indians. LC's JV shot a 169 to also defeat Portage. LC V--150 JC JV--169 Portage V--216 Logan Carroll and Cole Sullivan shared the top spot with a pair of 35s. Below are the LC scores for the evening: Cole Sullivan 35, Cooper Kroncke 40, Logan Carroll 35, Dru Barkauskas 40, Yianni Boufis 44, James Matlon 42, Tyler Kroczek 38, Trevor MacFarlane 44, Jake Gerritsen 45, Michael Bender 45, Max Veselsky 37, Noah Kirinac 52, Declan Stiteler 55, and Jack Snider 48.