Baseball Game Preview: St. Francis de Sales Plays at Home

By Team Reports May 8, 2024, 2:50am

Baseball Preview: St. Francis de Sales Knights vs. Evergreen Vikings

The St. Francis de Sales Knights have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Evergreen Vikings at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. St. Francis de Sales will be strutting in after a win while Evergreen will be coming in after a loss.

Last Monday, St. Francis de Sales got the win against De La Salle Collegiate by a conclusive 11-1. That's two games straight that St. Francis de Sales has won by exactly ten runs.

Nick Hood and Evan Dudley did most of the damage at the plate: Hood scored two runs while going 1-for-2, while Dudley got on base in all three of his plate appearances with a stolen base and an RBI.

Meanwhile, Evergreen was not able to break out of their rough patch last Tuesday as the team picked up their third straight defeat. They fell just short of Oak Harbor by a score of 9-8. That's two games in a row now that Evergreen has lost by just one run.

St. Francis de Sales pushed their record up to 11-10 with that victory, which was their third straight at home. As for Evergreen, their loss dropped their record down to 7-7.

Everything went St. Francis de Sales' way against Evergreen in their previous matchup back in May of 2023 as St. Francis de Sales made off with a 15-5 win. Will St. Francis de Sales repeat their success, or does Evergreen have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.

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