Baseball Recap: New Palestine Dragons vs. Fishers Tigers
It was a good run, but New Palestine unfortunately witnessed the end of their eight-game winning streak on Friday. They fell just short of the Fishers Tigers by a score of 4-2. New Palestine has not had much luck with Fishers recently, as the team's come up short the last three times they've met.
New Palestine saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Gavin Neal, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
On Fishers' side, they got a great performance from Austin Conley as he tossed 4.2 innings while giving up just one earned run off one hit.
On the hitting side, Mayo Fernandez was excellent, scoring two runs while going 2-for-2. The team also got some help courtesy of Deagan Repp, who went 1-for-4 with two RBI and a double.
New Palestine's loss ended a four-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 15-3. As for Fishers, they are on a roll lately: they've won 11 of their last 12 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 16-7 record this season.
New Palestine will look to defend their home field on Saturday against Connersville at 10:00 a.m. New Palestine is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.9 runs per game this season. As for Fishers, they will be playing at home against Yorktown at 6:30 p.m. on Monday. Fishers is coming into the game hot, having won their last four games.
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