Baseball Preview: Shippensburg Greyhounds vs. Chambersburg Trojans
The Shippensburg Greyhounds have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Chambersburg Trojans at 4:15 p.m. on Friday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
If Shippensburg beats Chambersburg with two runs on Friday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two matchups with that exact score. Shippensburg narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Northern York 2-1.
Meanwhile, Chambersburg came into Wednesday's game having lost three straight, but that streak is now in the rearview. They had just enough and edged Red Land out 6-4.
Chambersburg got a great performance from Colton Wadel as he pitched five innings while giving up just one earned run off three hits.
At the plate, the team relied heavily on Joey Diaz, who scored a run while getting on base in four of his six plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Tyler Brechbiel, who scored a run while getting on base in two of his six plate appearances.
Shippensburg has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 15-4 record this season. As for Chambersburg, their win ended an eight-game drought on the road and puts them at 5-12.
Everything went Shippensburg's way against Chambersburg in their previous meeting back in April of 2016 as Shippensburg made off with an 8-2 victory. Does Shippensburg have another victory up their sleeve, or will Chambersburg turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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