Baseball Recap: Faith Lutheran Comes Up Short

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Faith Lutheran can now relate to. They fell just short of the Basic Wolves by a score of 8-7 on Thursday. The Crusaders were not able to repeat the success they had when they faced the Wolves earlier this season, when they won 7-5.

Rouselle Shepard

Runs

05/08/25 @ Basic	3
04/25/25 vs Basic	2
04/12/25 vs Las Vegas	2
04/03/25 @ Spring Valley	2
03/27/25 @ Mater Academy Charter	2
+ 15 more games

Rouselle Shepard was cooking despite his team's loss, going 2-for-3 with three runs and two doubles. Faith Lutheran is 7-2 when Shepard posts two or more runs, but 12-13 otherwise. Connor Gries was another key player, going 3-for-4 with two RBI.

Faith Lutheran's defeat dropped their record down to 19-15. As for Basic, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight games. That's provided a nice bump to their 21-6 record this season.

As of now, neither Faith Lutheran nor Basic have any future games scheduled.