Softball Game Preview: Exeter Township Eagles vs. Reading Red KNights

Exeter Township is a perfect 10-0 against Reading since May of 2017 and they'll have a chance to extend that dominance on Monday. The Eagles will host the Red KNights at 5:00 p.m. Exeter Township is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.5 runs per game this season.

Exeter Township proved they can win big on Wednesday (they won by ten) and on Friday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Lampeter-Strasburg 9-7.

Mackenzie O'Brien made a big impact while hitting and pitching. She struck out eight batters over seven innings while giving up four earned (and three unearned) runs off ten hits. O'Brien was also big at the plate, going 2-for-4 with two runs, two RBI, and one double.

Cheyenne Boyles

Runs Batted In (Career)

04/25/25 vs Lampeter-Strasburg	3
04/04/25 vs Muhlenberg	2
04/03/25 @ Reading	2
03/31/25 vs Governor Mifflin	2
03/27/25 @ Solanco	2

In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Cheyenne Boyles, who went 2-for-3 with three RBI and one run. Those three RBI gave her a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Avery Gibbons, who went 1-for-4 with two RBI and one run.

Exeter Township was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .433. They are a perfect 5-0 when they post a batting average of .375 or better.

Meanwhile, Reading was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their 11th straight loss. They lost 15-0 to J.P. McCaskey. The game snapped a strange streak: the last four times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.

Reading saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Kellyn Paulino, who went 1-for-2 with one stolen base.

Reading's defeat dropped their record down to 3-13. As for Exeter Township, their victory ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 7-10.

Exeter Township took their win against Reading in their previous matchup on April 3rd by a conclusive 19-0 score. Do the Eagles have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Red KNights turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.