Baseball Game Preview: Centralia Orphans vs. Althoff Catholic Crusaders

Centralia is 2-8 against Althoff Catholic since April of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Orphans will take on the Crusaders at 4:30 p.m. Given that the two teams suffered a loss in their last games, they both have a little extra motivation heading into this game.

Centralia made up a huge gap compared to their last game against Freeburg, but they still couldn't quite topple them. The Orphans wound up with the same score they had in their last game (6-4), but sadly the team found themselves on the wrong side of the score this time. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest defeat they have suffered against the Midgets since May 12, 2018.

Meanwhile, Althoff Catholic didn't have quite enough to beat Civic Memorial on Friday and fell 3-2.

Althoff Catholic saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Indy Johaningmeyer, who went 1-for-3 with one triple.

Centralia now has a losing record of 12-13. As for Althoff Catholic, their loss dropped their record down to 5-22.