Baseball Game Preview: Payne Tech Lions vs. Bloomfield Bengals

The Payne Tech Lions will challenge the Bloomfield Bengals at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Neither of those teams managed to put together many runs in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual.

Payne Tech is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Barringer just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Tuesday. They fell just short of the Blue Bears by a score of 3-1. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest defeat the Lions have suffered since May 1, 2024.

Meanwhile, Bloomfield was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their seventh straight loss. They lost 9-2 to Newark Academy. That's two games in a row now that the Bengals have lost by exactly seven runs.

Bloomfield saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Darious Rivas, who went 2-for-3 with one run and one double.

Bloomfield's defeat dropped their record down to 3-12. As for Payne Tech, their loss dropped their record down to 7-4.

Payne Tech suffered a grim 8-2 defeat to Bloomfield in their previous meeting on April 14th. Can the Lions avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.