Baseball Preview: Phillips Exeter Academy Lions vs. Winchendon Wapiti
Phillips Exeter Academy has enjoyed a three-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will square off against the Winchendon Wapiti at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Both teams come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Phillips Exeter Academy will roll into the game after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up one run on Saturday, then bounced right back against Phillips Academy on Saturday. Phillips Exeter Academy won by a run and slipped past Phillips Academy 10-9.
Phillips Exeter Academy saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Dana Mussulman, who went 1-for-3 with a home run.
Meanwhile, Winchendon is ranked highly in their home state and on Saturday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Stony Brook. Winchendon had just enough and edged Stony Brook out 2-1. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Winchendon.
Phillips Exeter Academy's win ended a five-game drought at home and bumped them up to 7-10. As for Winchendon, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 17-6 record this season.
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