Baseball Preview: Lebanon Cedars vs. Lampeter-Strasburg Pioneers
Lebanon is 0-10 against Lampeter-Strasburg since March of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Lebanon Cedars will head out on the road to take on the Lampeter-Strasburg Pioneers at 7:00 p.m. Lebanon will be strutting in after a win while Lampeter-Strasburg will be coming in after a defeat.
Lebanon's pitching crew heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. They walked away with a 4-0 victory over Elizabethtown. The win made it back-to-back victories for Lebanon.
Lebanon saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Colby Robb, who went 1-for-2 with two RBI.
Meanwhile, it was a hard-fought match, but Lampeter-Strasburg had to settle for a 5-3 loss against Central York on Tuesday.
Lampeter-Strasburg also got a good showing from Devin Aponte, who pitched 2.1 innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. Aponte has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't given up more than one hit in three consecutive pitching appearances.
Lebanon's win bumped their record up to 2-10. As for Lampeter-Strasburg, their defeat dropped their record down to 8-5.
Lebanon came up short against Lampeter-Strasburg in their previous matchup two weeks ago, falling 6-3. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Lampeter-Strasburg's Anthony Turek, who kept things locked down with no earned runs or hits over four innings pitched. Now that Lebanon knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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