Baseball Preview: Coventry Oakers vs. South Kingstown Rebels
The Coventry Oakers will be playing at home against the South Kingstown Rebels at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Coventry is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Rhode Island's top teams: Smithfield, who was ranked 22nd in their home state at the time (Coventry was ranked 13th). Coventry never let Smithfield onto the board and left with a 1-0 victory on Wednesday. That's two games straight that Coventry has won by just one run.
Coventry saw seven different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Aaron Anderson, who went 2-for-2 with two stolen bases.
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for South Kingstown, who bounced back after a loss on the road on Monday. They had just enough and edged Cumberland out 3-2.
Coventry is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 7-5-1 record this season. As for South Kingstown, their win bumped their record up to 11-2.
Coventry came out on top in a nail-biter against South Kingstown in their previous matchup back in May of 2023, sneaking past 8-7. Will Coventry repeat their success, or does South Kingstown have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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