Baseball Preview: Overlea Falcons vs. Carver A&T Wildcats
The Overlea Falcons will be staying on the road on Friday to face off against the Carver A&T Wildcats at 1:00 p.m. Carver A&T took a loss in their last matchup and will be looking to turn the tables on Overlea, who comes in off a win.
Overlea is headed into the contest fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They put the hurt on Milford Mill Academy with a sharp 27-19 win on Wednesday. Overlea might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team's won four matches by eight runs or more this season.
Meanwhile, Carver A&T fell victim to a rough 17-10 defeat at the hands of Chesapeake on Wednesday.
Landen Gendimenico made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and went 2-for-3 with two stolen bases, two runs, and a triple. The team also got some help courtesy of Trevor Schnirel, who scored a run while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
Overlea is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-3 record this season. As for Carver A&T, their loss dropped their record down to 4-6.
Overlea couldn't quite finish off Carver A&T in their previous meeting on April 8th and fell 3-1. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Schnirel, who struck out 11 batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned run off four hits (and not a single walk). Now that Overlea knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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