Baseball Recap: Franklin Academy Sets Scoring Season-High Against American Leadership Academy-Johnston

Patriots

Team Score (Highest)

03/28/25 vs American Leadership Academy-Johnston	6
03/21/25 vs Cary Academy	5
03/07/25 vs American Leadership Academy-Johnston	4
03/06/25 @ North Johnston	3
03/03/25 vs Oxford Prep	3

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Franklin Academy). They walked away with a 6-3 victory over American Leadership Academy-Johnston on Friday. This was a revenge game for Franklin Academy: when they faced off against American Leadership Academy-Johnston on March 7th, they had to take a 5-4 defeat.

Franklin Academy saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Chase Liner, who scored a run while going 2-for-4. Hayden Denton also deserves some recognition as he snagged his first stolen base of the season.

The win made it two in a row for Franklin Academy and bumps their season record up to 2-6. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered a grand total of 4 runs in those games. As for American Leadership Academy-Johnston, their loss ended a seven-game streak of away wins dating back to last season and brought them to 10-2.

Looking ahead, Franklin Academy will look to defend their home field on Tuesday against East Wake Academy at 4:00 p.m. As for American Leadership Academy-Johnston, they will face off against Ravenscroft at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday.