Baseball Preview: Cathedral Fighting Irish vs. El Paso Leadership Academy East Leaders
The Cathedral Fighting Irish will be playing at home against the El Paso Leadership Academy East Leaders at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Cathedral is strutting in with some hitting muscle, as they've averaged 7.6 runs per game this season.
Cathedral is probably headed into the contest with a chip on their shoulder considering El Paso Leadership Academy East just ended the team's three-game winning streak on Thursday. They fell just short of the Leaders by a score of 6-5.
Derek Armendariz was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring two runs while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Julian Escalante, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Even though they lost, Cathedral didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 12 strikeouts. That's the most strikeouts they've managed all season.
Cathedral's loss dropped their record down to 17-9. As for El Paso Leadership Academy East, their defeat dropped their record down to 18-13.
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