The Chesterton Trojans pulled out a win over #2 Crown Point behind Troy Barrett(6IP, 4H, 3BB, 10K) in a pitcher's duel that will be talked about for a long time. With the Purdue coach looking on Barrett proved why he was recruited by the Boilermakers skipper. He continually filled up the strike zone to get ahead of hitters and when he got into a jam he got out of it, no matter what Bulldog hitter stepped up to the plate. Even with four D1 commits in the Crown Point lineup, Barrett seemed unphased even if he did uncharacteristically walk three while fanning ten. One of those victims was the #1 rated player in the state of Indiana and University of Tennessee commit, Sean Dunlap, who was hitless in three plate appearances. The lefty hurler surrendered hits to C. Matusak, C. Trapp and C. Gaines, who recorded two knocks including a double that found its way into the right field corner between Nate Redman(0-3, 2K) and the foul line. The visitors on the scoreboard tallied five hits in which two were doubles for Caden Hackett(1-3, 2B) and Gary Kirkland(1-3, 2B). Dylan Bradford(1-2, R, K), Ethan Glassman(1-3) and Isaiah Prater(1-3, RBI) recorded one hit a piece for Chesterton with Prater's infield single proving to be the game winner off starting Bulldog pitcher, Logan Johnston, who went the distance for CP. Both teams went three up three down in the first with Crown Point turning a 1-6-3 double play off the bat of Eli McClelland(0-3, K) that erased Barrett after he reached on a hit by pitch. In the second, the Trojans would get a man in scoring position on a double to right by Kirkland. Dylan Bradford was then nicked on the wrist by the offering and Chesterton had something brewing with one out. Johnston got Glassman to roll a chopper near the bag at third allowing the third baseman to step on it and throw on to first nearly doubling up Glassman who reached just ahead of the throw. The runners would be left stranded when Redman lined out to center to end the inning. CP managed a knock in their half of the second after a lineout, but Barrett made the next two batters grab some bench with strikeouts. In the next frame Prater popped out and Rob Czarniecki(0-3, BB) hit a chopper and reached on an errant throw that forced the first baseman to leave hit feet to snag the high throw as Czarniecki stepped on the bag. Crown Point would erase both Czarniecki and Barrett on a 4-6-3 tailor made twin killing, one of the three they turned on the night. Caden Hackett(1-3, 2B) doubled in the fourth off the mitt of the left fielder who tried fielding the long fly ball like a wide receiver catches a football over the shoulder. Again no run would cross and the seventh straight goose egg lit up on the board. The Bulldogs couldn't capitalize on two Barrett walks in the fifth with the future Volunteer up and two on. The two studs went at it like a couple of heavy weight boxers exchanging blows. Dunlap tried jumping on the first pitch but the filthy Barrett slider rode in on his hands and all he could do was pull it foul toward the dugout. Barrett then broke off another nasty slider that Dunlap fouled straight back. Ball two was up and out. Great pitch down and away was spoiled by their rocket armed catcher keeping the count at 2 balls and 2 strikes. Ball three was down below the knees before the next two full count offerings were spoiled yet again by Dunlap. Finally, on the ninth pitch of the at bat, Dunlap would ground sharply to Prater at second for the easy toss to first to end the threat. Now in the top of the sixth, Czarniecki earned a seven-pitch base on balls but two Trojans would take strike three and Hackett hit a comebacker to the mound for the third out. With neither team on the board yet, Barrett went back out there to shove a little more and induced a lazy fly ball and two more whiffs totaling ten in his six innings of work. Chesterton would have the middle part of the order due up in the top of the seventh with Kirkland, Bradford, and Glassman. Kirkland, grounded out to second and Bradford reached on an infield single. Glassman followed that up with a frozen rope liner to right and the Trojans had something going. Redman went down on strikes but luckily on the fourth pitch of the at bat Johnston threw one past his catcher to the backstop advancing Bradford to third and Glassman to second. Prater was down no balls and two strikes when he swung at an inside pitch and hit a slow chopper to short. Prater then turned track star down the first base line and took an all out head first dive to the first base bag to beat the throw putting his team up 1-0 since Bradford raced home from third on contact. Czarniecki nearly pulled off the same feat as Prater but was called out by the first base ump on the bang-bang play to keep the score at 1-0 Chesterton. With Barrett done for the evening and sporting a one run advantage Trojan closer Czarniecki toed the rubber. Czarniecki was reaching back and giving it all he had in the clutch situation and got the first hitter to pop out to Prater at second. The Kentucky bound outfielder over-powered the next batter and he went down swinging for the second out. The next hitter fell behind one ball and two strikes before softly lining out to McClelland who had him played perfectly at first to end the game giving the Trojans the victory. The win moves the Trojans two games above the Bulldogs for first place in the Duneland Athletic Conference with another game slated for 4:30 at Chesterton on Wednesday. Conference record: 9-0 Overall 16-4