All good things must come to an end. And so do winning streaks. Shooting for a baker's dozen of straight victories, the Trojans fell short against the Northridge Raiders. After playing under the Friday night lights against Hobart, Chesterton had a twin bill in a four-team tournament held at Chesterton High School on Saturday morning beginning at 9:00 am. The boys slept fast, prepared their prom tuxes. and donned the home white uni's and headed right back to the field that showed its temp as the frost glistened in the sunrise that hadn't touched most of the field upon arrival. After winning the first game the Trojans faced off with the winner between Elkhart and Northridge being played on the JV field simultaneously to when Chesterton battled Morgan Twp. Northridge got the better of Elkhart and made their way over to the Varsity field for the 11:30 start. Ethan Glassman(4IP, 9H, 7R, 7ER, 3BB, 5K) took the ball for his squad after not seeing the mound for two weeks or more due to dominating outings by his teammates. Northridge jumped on Glassman as he worked out the rust and ironed out the kinks over the first six outs. The Raiders put up crooked numbers in the first and second to a tune of five total while Chesterton pushed one across in their first at bat. They just hit it where we weren't and Glass took two of the outs himself via the K. After a three-run merry-go-round in the first Rob Czarniecki(1-2, R,RBI, BB, 3B) tripled to the wall in center and scored on a Troy Barrett(1-4, RBI, 2B) double in the same direction. Barrett would be a LOB statistic after Eli McClelland(0-3, R, BB), who had an 11-game hitting streak snapped earlier in the day, grounded out and Caden Hackett(0-3, BB, 2K) and G Kirkland(1-4, R, K) went down on strikes. The Raiders scored two times on three singles in the second and held the Trojans scoreless the next four innings. Chesterton would threaten in the fourth by putting a Trojan on every base for possibly the best hitter to ever sport a CHS jersey in Rob Czarniecki(1-2, R, RBI, BB, 3B). Czarniecki lined out to the second baseman who went horizontally to his left to snatch the ball headed to right field just off the dirt that would have surely driven in two runs. Had the ball been struck on the good part of the barrel instead of near the end there would have been no play and the Trojans may still be batting. None-the-less, ball met leather and it just seemed fitting for the way things were going in the Trojan loss. With the score at 7-1 and a new pitcher toeing the rubber for Northridge, Chesterton took advantage of a couple of miscues by the visitors. Kirkland led off with a hooking liner to right that got passed the outfielder allowing G to get to second for a double. A Michael Szostek(0-3, 2K) F6 brought Glassman to the plate where he struck out but the catcher failed to corral the pitch and then threw it into right field trying to get Glassman out at first on the dropped third strike. The ball that went nearly ninety feet down the line allowed Glassman to move up to second base and Kirkland scored. Sully Fleming(0-2, R, BB, K, HBP) then wore a pitch on the bicep and John Knight(1-2, BB) walked to pack the sacks. With the pond full of waterfowl, Czarniecki dug in at the dish. After taking a borderline strike he swung on and belted the next offering so high and far that it should've had a flight attendant on it, but with the cold north wind blowing stiffly in, the shot that would've been gone any other day fell into the left fielder's glove standing near the wall in left for a sac fly that scored two after the defender's errant throw. McClelland reached via the base on balls in the seventh and scored on three wild pitches. The Trojans would bring the tying run up to the plate with two dead but a strikeout ended the game and the winning streak. The #12 Trojans fall to 15-4 but still carry an 8-0 record in the DAC conference with #2 ranked Crown Point(DAC 7-1) slated for Tuesday(away) and Wednesday(home). Both contests have a first pitch scheduled for 4:30.