No snow, no go?

Not when Pullman Park is sitting less than an hour away.

Indiana got hit with 5 inches of snow Monday, rendering its high school baseball field unplayable Tuesday for the Little Indians’ critical Section 4-AAA game against Knoch.

So coach Mark Morrow decided to have his team hit the road for a home game — and it worked to the tune of a 4-0 win over the Knights on a chilly Tuesday evening at Pullman Park.

“I made the decision to move the game this (Tuesday) morning when Pullman Park was made available to us,” Morrow said. “We love playing here. This is a beautiful place to play baseball.”

Indiana played a pretty game in its own right, playing errorless defense, throwing a runner out at the plate and producing timely hits.

“They only had five hits, but they made them count,” Knoch coach George Bradley said. “That’s how you win games. We just couldn’t string anything together.”

The Knights collected six hits and stranded one runner in every inning but the seventh, when they stranded two.

Indiana sophomore right-hander Sean Thompson went the distance for the shutout, throwing strikes on 70 of his 103 pitches. He walked the first batter he faced — mound opponent Justin Grossman — and did not allow another free pass until walking two in the seventh.

“All of our pitchers are freshmen and sophomores,” Morrow said. “Sean’s our No. 1 guy. His best pitch is his changeup and it was working tonight.”

Bradley agreed.

“We had a lot of bad swings against him,” the Knoch coach said. “But we were pulling our heads out a little bit, too. We have to go back to taking shorter swings, making better contact.

“They’re adolescents. This isn’t fatal. We’ll work on it.”

Indiana’s victory pulls the Little Indians into a third-place tie with Knoch in the section. Indiana batters walked to lead off the first two innings and both scored. Ryan Creps doubled with one out in the third and scored on Thompson’s single up the middle.

Indiana added a fourth run in the fifth when Danny Clark hit a two-out RBI double to left.

Knoch actually had a 6-5 edge in hits, but got two hits in an inning only once. That occurred in the third when Gavin Miller led off with a double. Chase Voltz blooped a one-out single to center, but Miller’s courtesy runner was thrown out at the plate on a strong relay from shortstop Brandon Smith.

Catcher Nick Holuta successfully blocked the plate on the play.

“With one out, we have our runners go halfway on bloops like that,” Bradley said. “Our runner froze just a little bit and it cost him. He knows what he did.”

Indiana’s win made up for a disappointing loss to 1-9 Kittanning last Friday.

“We beat Mars, lost to Hampton and Knoch by a run. ... We’ve been right there,” Morrow said. “We can play with the top teams. Hopefully, that (Kittanning) loss won’t wind up biting us in the end.

“We played well tonight in hitting, fielding and pitching. We do that and I like our chances no matter where we’re playing.”

Knoch 000 000 0 — 0 6 1Indiana 111 010 x — 4 5 0W: Sean Thompson 7IP 7(K, 3BB).

L: Justin Grossman 3IP (0K, 2BB).

Knoch (7-6, 5-3): Justin Grossman 1B, Chase Voltz 1B, Mac Megahan 1B, Ty Smith 2-1B, Gavin Miller 2B

Indiana (6-7, 5-3): Ryan Creps 2B 1B, Sean Thompson 1B RBI, Danny Clark 2B RBI, P.J. Kuta 1B RBI

Wednesday: Knoch at East Allegheny