Baseball Preview: Ringgold Rams vs. South Park Eagles
Ringgold is 2-8 against South Park since April of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Thursday. The Ringgold Rams will be playing in front of their home fans against the South Park Eagles at 4:00 p.m. Ringgold will be strutting in after a win while South Park will be coming in after a defeat.
Ringgold will head into Tuesday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Monday (they won by 12) but on Tuesday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Albert Gallatin 8-6.
Andrew Sprinkle and Spencer Behrendt did most of the damage at the plate: Sprinkle scored three runs and stole three bases while going 1-for-3, while Behrendt scored a run while going 2-for-3. Sprinkle has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last three times he's played. Alex Kolano was another key contributor, scoring a run while going 2-for-2.
Meanwhile, South Park came up short against East Allegheny on Thursday and fell 9-5.
Ringgold is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 7-8 record this season. As for South Park, their loss dropped their record down to 7-6.
Ringgold suffered a grim 12-0 defeat to South Park in their previous meeting back in April of 2022. Thankfully for Ringgold, Austin Lafferty (who didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out six over four innings pitched) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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