Baseball Game Preview: Crooms Academy Panthers vs. Lake Mary Prep Griffins

Panthers

Runs

03/06/25 vs Lake Mary Prep	1
03/03/25 vs Holy Cross Lutheran Academy	16
02/27/25 @ Windermere Prep	1
02/19/25 @ Master's Academy	3
02/14/25 @ Jones	20
02/12/25 vs Jones	18

Crooms Academy is 1-8 against Lake Mary Prep since February of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The Crooms Academy Panthers will venture away from home to square off against the Lake Mary Prep Griffins at 6:00 p.m. Crooms Academy is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 9.8 runs per game this season.

Crooms Academy is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 16 runs on Monday, they were much more limited against Lake Mary Prep on Thursday. They lost 7-1 to the Griffins.

For Lake Mary Prep's part, the team relied heavily on Malachi Beedle, who went 2-for-4 with three RBI, one triple, and one stolen base. The dominant performance gave Beedle a new career-high in RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Landon Trauger, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-4.

The victory made it two in a row for Lake Mary Prep and bumps their season record up to 4-5. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 6 runs. As for Crooms Academy, the loss was their first at home , dropping their record down to 3-3.