LT Baseball Wins Summer League Championship

The Lyons Township High School baseball team (32-4-1) claimed the Phil Lawler Summer Classic title on Thursday night with a 7-3 victory over Joliet Catholic Academy, the team’s fourth such championship since 2002, but the first since 2006.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the Hilltoppers were held to a single three-run inning in the third, after which the Lions went up 5-3 in the fourth and never looked back, playing stellar defense, particularly second baseman Sam Cybulski and left fielder Jim Pavlik.

Junior Max Larsen was a standout for the Lions, reports YourSeason.com, pitching for the first five innings, four of them scoreless. The southpaw hurler also got two clutch RBI singles, the second to tie the game at 3-3.

"It was a great game for us," Larsen told the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark. "I didn't have my best stuff, but I battled… We really worked hard for this."

Star senior reliever Keith Lehmann got the save with a scoreless seventh inning.

The Lions had advanced to the finals by beating the Jacobs Golden Eagles 5-4. on a Cybulski extra-inning walk-off single.

The team previously placed second in the Class 4A playoffs earlier in the season.