Baseball Preview: Chapel Hill Tigers vs. East Chapel Hill Wildcats
The Chapel Hill Tigers will be playing in front of their home fans against the East Chapel Hill Wildcats at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Chapel Hill is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.6 runs per game this season.
Chapel Hill fought the good fight in their extra-innings matchup against East Chapel Hill on Tuesday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Wildcats by a score of 3-2. Having soared to a lofty 15 runs in the game before, Chapel Hill couldn't push the score so high this time.
Jackson Evans spent all 7.2 innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered only one earned (and two unearned) runs on seven hits and racked up 12 Ks.
On the hitting side, Chapel Hill saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Teagan CoyneSmith, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-4.
Chapel Hill's defeat ended an 11-game streak of away wins dating back to last season and brought them to 13-5. As for East Chapel Hill, their victory was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 9-10.
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