Baseball: Antioch battles past Carmel
Baseball
Antioch 7, Carmel 3: At Kerry Wood Cubs Field in Chicago, the Sequoits scored 4 runs in the top of the fifth inning to snap a 2-2 tie and went on to beat the Corsairs in the second semifinal of the Class 3A Lake View sectional on Thursday night.
John Petty, who led off the game with a double and scored the first of his 3 runs, and Jack Gillespie both went 2-for-4 for No. 3 Antioch (19-13), which advances to Saturday's 1 p.m. final against No. 5 Prairie Ridge (21-13).
Colin Wieska drove in a pair of runs and earned the win, giving up 3 runs in 4⅔ innings. He allowed a 2-run homer to Ben Wiegman in the third and a solo shot to Lukas Galdoni in the fifth.
JR Johnson had a single and 2 RBI for Antioch.
No. 2 Carmel (21-11) got a pair of hits from Austin Ehren.