Baseball Game Preview: Archbishop Spalding Cavaliers vs. Mount St. Joseph Gaels

For the second straight game, Archbishop Spalding will face off against Mount St. Joseph. The Cavaliers will square off against the Gaels at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Archbishop Spalding 3.5, Mount St. Joseph 3.7) so any runs scored will be well earned.

Archbishop Spalding is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Maryland's top teams: Mount St. Joseph, who was ranked seventh at the time (Archbishop Spalding was ranked second). The Cavaliers put the hurt on the Gaels with a sharp 13-1 win on Wednesday. The result was nothing new for the Cavaliers, who have now won ten matches by six runs or more so far this season.

The defeat snapped Mount St. Joseph's winning streak at three games and leaves them with a 13-6 record. As for Archbishop Spalding, they moved to 21-8 with that victory, which also ended their three-game losing streak.