Baseball Preview: Covington Catholic Colonels vs. Beechwood Tigers
The Covington Catholic Colonels will stay at home for another game and welcome the Beechwood Tigers at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average, (Covington Catholic: 1.8, Beechwood: 3.9) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Covington Catholic will head into Wednesday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Monday (they won by seven) but on Wednesday they proved they can win the close ones too. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 4-2 victory over Campbell County.
Meanwhile, after a string of six wins, Beechwood's good fortune finally ran out on Wednesday. They lost 8-1 to Dixie Heights. Having soared to a lofty 11 runs in the game before, Beechwood couldn't push the score so high this time.
Beechwood saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Tyler Fryman, who went 1-for-1 with an RBI.
Covington Catholic's win was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 25-1. As for Beechwood, their loss dropped their record down to 19-9.
Covington Catholic was able to grind out a solid victory over Beechwood when the teams last played back in May of 2023, winning 7-4. Does Covington Catholic have another victory up their sleeve, or will Beechwood turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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