Baseball Preview: Bishop Brossart Mustangs vs. Dixie Heights Colonels
The Bishop Brossart Mustangs will head out on the road to challenge the Dixie Heights Colonels at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Bishop Brossart is strutting in with some hitting muscle, as they've averaged 6.3 runs per game this season.
Ludlow typically has all the answers at home, but on Thursday Bishop Brossart proved too difficult a challenge. They blew past the Panthers 13-5. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Bishop Brossart.
Ben Doyle and Alex Amin did most of the damage at the plate: Doyle went 5-for-5 with five RBI, three runs, and a stolen base, while Amin got on base in all five of his plate appearances with two runs, a triple, and two RBI. Another player making a difference was Alex Noe, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, Dixie Heights came tearing into Saturday's matchup with four straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 10 runs) and they left with even more momentum. They came out on top in a nail-biter against the Colonels and snuck past 7-5.
Bishop Brossart's victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 5-7. Those good results were due in large part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 8.3 runs per game. As for Dixie Heights, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-4 record this season.
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