Baseball Recap: Shepherd Drops Season-High Score on Harrison

By Team Reports May 14, 2025, 6:12pm

Baseball Recap: Shepherd Bluejays vs. Harrison Hornets

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Team Score (Highest)

05/14/25 vs Harrison15
04/12/25 vs Laker12
04/17/25 vs Clare9
04/14/25 vs Beal City8
04/12/25 vs East Jordan8

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Shepherd). Everything went their way against the Harrison Hornets on Wednesday as they made off with a 15-5 win. The victory continues a trend for the Bluejays in their matchups with the Hornets: they've now won seven in a row.

Michael Pung was a major factor no matter where he played. He looked comfortable on the mound, tossing six innings while giving up just one earned (and four unearned) runs off eight hits. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in strikeouts (five). He was also solid in the batter's box, going 2-for-4 with one run and one RBI.

In other batting news, Shepherd got a massive performance out of Brady Robinson, who went 2-for-4 with three stolen bases, four runs, and one RBI. Those four runs gave Robinson a new career-high. Easton VanAlstine was another key player, going 1-for-3 with two stolen bases, five RBI, and one run.

Shepherd always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .571. That's the best OBP they've posted all season.

Shepherd's win bumped their record up to 14-6-1. As for Harrison, they are on a three-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 2-14.

Shepherd will have a chance to go back-to-back against the Hornets: the pair will be back at it again later today.

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