Baseball Game Preview: Sterling Silver Knights vs. Paulsboro Red Raiders

The Sterling Silver Knights will head out on the road to challenge the Paulsboro Red Raiders at 3:45 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Sterling has ten straight victories, Paulsboro has nine straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.

Sterling let Cardinal O'Hara stack five runs on them in the fifth inning on Monday but luckily Sterling prevailed anyway. The Silver Knights won by a run and slipped past the Lions 6-5. While the Silver Knights didn't have the best season last year (they finished 9-16), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past.

Sterling got a great performance from Vaughn McVeigh as he pitched 6.1 innings while giving up just two earned (and three unearned) runs off nine hits.

Luke Lomax

Hits (Career)

04/21/25 @ Cardinal O'Hara	2
04/19/25 vs Woodstown	1
04/16/25 @ Collingswood	1
04/15/25 vs Gloucester County Tech	1
04/10/25 @ Collingswood	1

On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Luke Lomax, who went 2-for-3 with one home run, three runs, and two RBI. Those two hits gave him a new career-high. Evan Miller also deserves some recognition as he hit his first triple of the season.

Meanwhile, Paulsboro came up short against Collingswood on Tuesday, falling 20-2.

Sterling's win was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 10-1. The road victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 8.0 runs over those games. As for Paulsboro, their loss dropped their record down to 0-8.