Lake Central High School

Ben Perschon and Lucca Neves are Regional Champions The boys' track and field team took part in the IHSAA Valparaiso Regional last night. The team finished 4th in the loaded field, just behind Chesterton, Merrillville, and Crown Point. To qualify for the state finals, an individual/relay has to finish top 3 in their respective event or meet the state standard. LC qualified in 6 events. Listed below are the point scorers for the Indians. Those with an asterisk are state qualifiers, and will take part in the IHSAA State Finals at North Central on Saturday, June 6th. Full Results: https://in.milesplit.com/meets/734916-ihsaa-regional-1-boys-2026/results 200M-Jacob White Hutsler 3rd ** 400M-Kendell Bishop 8th 800M-Timothy O'Brien 2nd ** 1600M-Ben Perschon 1st in 4:25.40 ** 3200M-Lucca Neves 1st in 9:29.63 **/Ben Perschon 2nd in 9:30.68 ** 110H-Aaron O'Neill 2nd ** 300H-Aaron O'Neill 4th ** 4X100M-3rd ** 4X400M-3rd ** Pole Vault-Cody Kostecki 6th Discus-Luke Czaja 8th Find all track and field IHSAA State Finals information here: https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/boys/track-field/2025-26-tournament?round=state-finals- Softball Knocks Off Rival Munster in Sectional Semi-Final In front of a packed house on a cold, windy night, the Lake Central softball team won a 2-1 nailbiter over a strong Munster Mustangs team. This sets up a showdown between the number 1 and 2 teams in Indiana tonight at Lake Central. LC will square off against Crown Point and try to avenge last year's sectional loss. Crown Point defeated Hammond Morton in the first semi-final game of the evening. Maddie Such took the ball and tossed a gem last night: She allowed one run in the first inning and went unblemished from that point. Such struck out 10 Mustang hitters, allowing only 3 hits. The Indian bats were a bit cold in this one. LC had a combined 6 hits and fanned 11 times. After falling behind 1-0 after 1, LC manufactured a pair of runs in the 3rd and that proved to be all the scoring they would need. Piper Urbanski led off the inning with a base on balls. MaKayla Van Vossen went down on strikes. Madi Wainright laid down a bunt for a single to put runners on 1st and 2nd. Lexi Iwema flew out to shallow left, setting up a 2-out at bat for Tegan Tripp. Urbanski and Kaitlyn Streiler (courtesy ran for Wainright) moved to 2nd and 3rd on a passed ball. Tripp laced a 3-1 single to center field to score both.