Baseball Preview: Lewisburg Patriots vs. Arlington Tigers
The Lewisburg Patriots will head out on the road to face off against the Arlington Tigers at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Neither of those teams managed to put together many runs in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual.
Lewisburg will head into Saturday's matchup hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Friday (they won by 13) but on Saturday they proved they can win the close ones too. They never let Southaven onto the board and left with a 2-0 victory.
Not much got past Cayden Baker, who gave up just zero hits and racked up 12 Ks to keep Southaven off the board. Baker has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts in five consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Lewisburg saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Andrew Hendrichovsky, who went 2-for-3 with a stolen base.
Meanwhile, after a string of ten wins, Arlington's good fortune finally ran out on Monday. They fell just short of Bartlett by a score of 3-1.
Lewisburg is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matches, which provided a nice bump to their 20-7 record this season. As for Arlington, their defeat ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 16-5.
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