Baseball Preview: Wilmington Wildcats vs. Peoria Notre Dame Irish
The Wilmington Wildcats are on the road again on Monday to play the Peoria Notre Dame Irish at 1:00 p.m. Both teams have allowed few runs on average, (Wilmington: 2.1, Peoria Notre Dame: 3.5) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Wilmington is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Saturday. They came out on top against Herscher by a score of 5-1. Five seems to be a good number for Wilmington as the team scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Lucas Rink spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered one run (which was unearned) on two hits and racked up ten Ks. He has been nothing but reliable: he hasn't tossed less than six strikeouts in nine consecutive pitching appearances.
At the plate, Wilmington let Kyle Farrell and Zach Ohlund loose on the outfield. Farrell scored two runs and stole a base while going 1-for-2, while Ohlund went 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Cade McCubbin, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a double.
Meanwhile, Peoria Notre Dame had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2 runs), and they went ahead and made it five on Saturday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Chargers a 2-0 shutout.
Wilmington's win bumped their record up to 26-1. As for Peoria Notre Dame, they have been performing well recently as they've won seven of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 22-10 record this season.
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