{"id":64525,"date":"2026-05-13T06:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64525\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:59:23","slug":"lake-county-high-school-baseball-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64525\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake County high school baseball rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Zurich returns to the top 10 after winning three of four games, and Carson Hamblin is the player of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Top 10<\/p>\n<p>With records through Sunday and previous rankings in parentheses.<\/p>\n<p>1. Libertyville 20-7-1 (1): Weston Wyzukovicz hits three home runs in four games and Jack Cenar homers in back-to-back games for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/06\/14\/baseball-4a-state-title-libertyville-joshua-holst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defending Class 4A state champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Grayslake Central 22-3 (2): Beau Barrows and the Rams, tied with Lakes atop the Northern Lake County Conference, are trying to win their sixth straight title.<\/p>\n<p>3. Lake Forest 21-4 (3): Luke Pasquesi hits .500 with 10 RBIs and Charlie Quick hits .625 with seven RBIs as the North Suburban Conference leader outscores four opponents 55-0.<\/p>\n<p>4. Lakes 18-5-1 (4): Brett Beerbower goes the distance with 14 strikeouts and also gets two hits in one of the Eagles\u2019 three NLCC wins over Antioch.<\/p>\n<p>5. Highland Park 19-6 (5): Outfielder Paxton Feder makes a diving catch to preserve a Central Suburban League North win and then doubles and homers against Lincoln Park.<\/p>\n<p>6. Vernon Hills 18-6-1 (6): Henry Olson pitches 5 2\/3 innings of scoreless relief and also gets three hits in the Cougars\u2019 11-inning CSL North win over Niles West.<\/p>\n<p>7. Warren 16-6 (7): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/03\/26\/high-school-baseball-warren-peyton-balanag\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peyton Balanag<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/04\/08\/baseball-braylan-mccarthy-warren\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braylan McCarthy<\/a> each pitches a complete game in a sweep of Stevenson as the Blue Devils extend their winning streak to seven.<\/p>\n<p>8. Wauconda 17-8 (8): Brothers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/10\/18\/football-antioch-wauconda-jackson-rudolph-brody-rudolph\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Rudolph<\/a>, who is hitting .457, and Brody Rudolph, who is hitting .430, fuel the Bulldogs\u2019 high-powered offense.<\/p>\n<p>9. Mundelein 14-8 (9): Peter Nanos goes 7-for-11 with seven RBIs and six runs scored as the Mustangs win three of four games.<\/p>\n<p>10. Lake Zurich 13-10 (NR): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/09\/06\/football-lake-zurich-antioch-reid-pfeifer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reid Pfeifer<\/a> goes 6-for-13 with six RBIs and Cooper Kaczmarek goes 7-for-12 with five RBIs as the Bears win three of four games.<\/p>\n<p>Player of the week<\/p>\n<p>Lake Zurich junior outfielder Carson Hamblin goes 12-for-16 with two triples, two doubles, five walks, four RBIs and 12 runs scored in four games, raising his batting average to .477 and his on-base percentage to .626.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Reaven is a freelance reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake Zurich returns to the top 10 after winning three of four games, and Carson Hamblin is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35255,6610,35256,8504,8505,8506,8507,35257,4573,35258,899,35259,35260,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-64525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zurich","8":"tag-gurnee","9":"tag-high-school-sports","10":"tag-highland-park","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-lake-county","13":"tag-lake-county-news-sun","14":"tag-lake-county-news-sun-sports","15":"tag-lake-forest","16":"tag-lake-zurich","17":"tag-libertyville","18":"tag-local-news","19":"tag-mundelein","20":"tag-vernon-hills","21":"tag-zurich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116565977500153347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}