Baseball Game Preview: Orchard Farm on Home-Turf

By Team Reports May 1, 2024, 3:23am

Baseball Preview: Orchard Farm Eagles vs. Christian

Orchard Farm is 3-0 against Christian since April of 2018, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. The Orchard Farm Eagles will be playing in front of their home fans against Christian at 4:15 p.m.

Orchard Farm is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Hazelwood West just ended the team's three-game winning streak on Tuesday. They fell 5-1 to the Wildcats. Having soared to a lofty 20 runs in the game before, Orchard Farm couldn't push the score so high this time.

Orchard Farm saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Bryce Daniel, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.

Meanwhile, Christian got themselves on the board against Crystal City on Tuesday, but Crystal City never followed suit. Everything went their way against the Hornets as they made off with a 7-0 win.

Orchard Farm's defeat dropped their record down to 7-10. As for Christian, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five contests, which provided a nice bump to their 8-8 record this season.

Orchard Farm skirted past Christian 5-4 when the teams last played back in May of 2019. Will Orchard Farm repeat their success, or does Christian have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.

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