Brian McNamara

“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” -Jim Bouton

[Heartland Sports Network @HeartlandSN]

🎙️ STATE CHAMPIONS SPEAK 🎙️

The celebration is on at Victory Field!

Hear from Lake Central players and coaches after the Indians captured the Class 4A State Championship with a 4-0 victory over Bloomington South.

They discuss Owen Kopercinski's complete-game shutout, the key moments that fueled the offense, and what bringing home the program's second 4A state title in three years means to Lake Central baseball.

🏆 Class 4A State Champions
⚾ 28-8 Final Record
🔥 Third State Championship in Program History
Watch the full postgame interviews now!

[Mason Williams @mvsonwilliams]

The front cover of Monday's @nwi E-edition Sports section, featuring state champion @LCIndiansBball ⬇️ #nwipreps

[Story of the Season @StoryTheSeason]

Indiana 4A State Champions 🏆
@LCIndiansBball Earned every inning. Owned the moment. Congratulations!
Check out their jpurney: https://t.co/fd2Jf5yeZU

[LC Athletics @LCIndians]

Congratulations to Tom Halterman on being recognized as our Champion Educator prior to the game.

[Mason Williams @mvsonwilliams]

With tonight's Class 4A State Championship win, Lake Central becomes the third team in @IHSAA1 history to win a baseball & softball state title in the same season.

The 2026 Indians join New Palestine (2004) and Penn (2023) as the only schools to accomplish the feat. #nwipreps

[LC Athletics @LCIndians]

CHAMPIONS!

[LC Indians Baseball @LCIndiansBball]

What a group and what a run this team has been on...

13 wins in a row & 19 out of the last 21

Can't say enough good things about our senior leadership, our entire 22 man roster, and the coaching staff.

Hope to see a large sea of BLUE on Saturday at Victory Field in Indy!!

[Champions Network @IHSAAtv]

How about a grand slam! Emma Wilkins of Lake Central clears the bases in the bottom of the 3rd in the 2026 @IHSAA1 4A Softball State Finals! Join us on https://t.co/nrgSchfc79 to catch all the action!

[LC Indians Baseball @LCIndiansBball]

Great Saturday for our young men!!! 11-1 win over Goshen to win the Regional.

Kopercinski (W) - 6IP, 4H, 1R, 8K

Brower-4 hits
O'Bryan & Forystek-3 hits
Walls & Thuftedal-2 hits
Robinson, Villegas, Ochoa, Friesema-1 hit

[Prep Baseball Indiana Scouting Coverage @PrepBaseINScout]

@Seandunlap28 @CadenMatusak Lake Central Wins it‼️‼️

Gutsy performance from Owen Kopercinski who threw 3.2 scoreless innings out of the ‘pen. Up to 86 multiple times.

Lake Central over Crown Point 4-3…

[LC Indians Baseball @LCIndiansBball]

#13 LC over #9 Munster 13-3 in the opening round of the Sectional tonight at CP. Next game Friday vs. Hammond Morton at 7 PM at CP.

Forystek w/3 hits
Walls (HR/3RBI), Thuftedal (2 2B) w/2 hits
Ochoa, O'Bryan, Robinson, Brower, Friesema w/hits

Kopercinski (W) - 5IP, 3ER, 4K

[LC Indians Baseball @LCIndiansBball]

Tonight we honor our 6 senior baseball players.

On field ceremony will take place around 4:15-4:20.

LC vs. Merrillville will follow.

We encourage everyone to come out tonight and honor these six young men who have put so much into our program over the past four years.

[LC Indians Baseball @LCIndiansBball]

Congratulations to Lake Central's class of 2027 catcher Brayden Walls who has committed to Ball State University. A lot of hard work young man...keep it up!!! Huge improvement in all skills since last spring. Looking forward to a big spring from him.

[MLB's Arizona Fall League @MLBazFallLeague]

Your Fall Stars lineups are here! First pitch is at 6PM MST, catch all the action in person at Sloan Park or live on MLB Network

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

October is why.

(Narrated by Anthony Rizzo)

[landon @landon_bsbl]

Since returning to Low-A, Josh Adamczewski is slashing .328/.444/.597 with 3 HRs and a 10:13 K:BB ratio in 19 G. He leads all Low-A players ≤20 y/o with a 183 wRC+, 19 pts ahead of the next best

Bat first 2B with + bat speed and a polished approach. CON% about avg for his age.

[Brewers Player Development @BrewersPD]

Josh Adamczewski has a dominant 1.124 OPS since his return to to the @CarolinaMudcats lineup on 7/18 ‼

Adamczewski has 3 home runs, 4 doubles, and 1 triple in the 12 games 🔥

#ThisIsMyCrew