Baseball Game Preview: Briar Woods Falcons vs. Paul VI Panthers
By Team Reports
Apr 6, 2025, 2:10am
Baseball Preview: Briar Woods Falcons vs. Paul VI Panthers
The Briar Woods Falcons will face off against the Paul VI Panthers at 6:00 p.m. on Monday.
Paul VI is facing Briar Woods at the wrong time: Briar Woods suffered their first home loss of the season on Friday and they're likely out for redemption. They fell just short of the Wolverines by a score of 4-3.
Meanwhile, Paul VI had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 14 runs) and they went ahead and made it four on Saturday. Everything went their way against the Wolves as they made off with a 15-2 win.
Ryan Bahr made a splash while hitting and pitching. He pitched one inning while giving up no earned runs or hits. Bahr was also big at the plate, scoring a run while going 1-for-2.
In other pitching news, Lucas Driscoll looked comfortable as he tossed two innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. What's more, he posted two strikeouts, the most he's had over his last three matchups.
Back at the plate, Paul VI let Landon Sirois and Ryan Vaxmonsky run wild. Sirois scored a run while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances, while Vaxmonsky went a perfect 1-for-1 with one triple, two RBI, and one run. The dominant performance also gave Sirois a new career-high in RBI (two). Holden Colio was another key player, scoring two runs and stealing a base while going 1-for-1.
Paul VI was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .400. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Saint John Paul the Great Catholic only posted a batting average of .158.
Paul VI pushed their record up to 13-3 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home. The home wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 10.6 runs over those games. As for Briar Woods, their defeat dropped their record down to 5-3.
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