Baseball Recap: Long Beach's Win on Tuesday Extends Winning Streak to Three

By Team Reports Apr 9, 2025, 9:07am

Baseball Recap: Long Beach Bearcats vs. West Harrison Hurricanes

After losing to West Harrison the last time they met, Long Beach decided to demonstrate that turnabout is fair play. The Bearcats walked away with a 7-2 win over the Hurricanes on Tuesday. The victory was nothing new for the Bearcats as they're now sitting on three straight.

Will Brady spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered only one earned (and one unearned) run on five hits. He has become a key player for Long Beach: the team is undefeated when he allows at most one earned run, but 9-10 otherwise.

Aiden Downey

Runs Batted In (Career)

04/08/25 @ West Harrison3
03/03/25 @ Forrest County Agricultural2
02/15/25 @ St. Martin2
02/14/25 vs D'Iberville2
03/13/25 vs Stone1

At the plate, Long Beach let Wayne Ulrich and Aiden Downey run wild. Ulrich scored two runs while going 2-for-3, while Downey scored a run while going 2-for-4. The dominant performance also gave Downey a new career-high in RBI (three).

Long Beach's win bumped their record up to 13-10. As for West Harrison, they dropped their record down to 8-15 with the loss, which was their sixth straight at home.

Long Beach will have a chance to go back-to-back against the Hurricanes: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.

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