Baseball Preview: Vanguard Knights vs. South Sumter Raiders
Vanguard has been on the road for three straight, but on Friday they'll finally head home. They will take on the South Sumter Raiders at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
On Thursday, Vanguard had just enough and edged Interlachen out 9-7.
Brendan McLaughlin looked comfortable as he pitched four innings while giving up just one earned run off three hits.
On the hitting side, Jake Wells was excellent, scoring a run and stealing a base while going 3-for-4.
Meanwhile, South Sumter had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6 runs), and they went ahead and made it five on Thursday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past the Hornets 5-3.
Malakhi Boone was incredible, going 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Ishmael Rodriguez, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-3.
Vanguard's win bumped their record up to 13-8. As for South Sumter, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 11-9 record this season.
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