Baseball Preview: Heritage Panthers vs. Sebastian River Sharks
Heritage is 0-10 against Sebastian River since February of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Monday. The Heritage Panthers will be playing at home against the Sebastian River Sharks at 6:00 p.m. Heritage will be looking to keep their five-game home win streak alive.
Heritage stacked a tenth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Wednesday. Everything went their way against Palm Bay as Heritage made off with a 14-1 victory. The high-flying hitting performance was a huge turnaround for Heritage considering their two-run performance the match before.
Noriega Gonzalez looked comfortable as he pitched 3.2 innings while giving up just one earned run off two hits. He has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't given up more than two hits in four consecutive pitching appearances.
At the plate, the team relied heavily on AJ Francisco, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Austin Maccardle, who scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances.
Meanwhile, Sebastian River fell victim to Centennial and their airtight pitching crew on Thursday. They took a 5-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Eagles. The loss unfortunately continues a disappointing trend for Sebastian River in their matchups with Centennial: they've now lost three in a row.
Sebastian River saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Thomas Villars, who went 1-for-2 with a stolen base.
Heritage is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 16-8 record this season. As for Sebastian River, their defeat dropped their record down to 8-14.
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