Baseball Game Preview: St. Francis de Sales Knights vs. Central Catholic Fighting Irish

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Previous Games

04/23/25 - Away	10-4 W
05/22/24 - Home	4-0 W
04/09/24 - Home	0-7 L
03/25/24 - Away	8-1 W
05/21/23 - Home	17-0 W
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St. Francis de Sales has gone 9-1 against Central Catholic recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Knights will be playing at home against the Fighting Irish at 5:00 p.m. Neither of those teams managed to put together many runs in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual.

St. Francis de Sales' pitching crew heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Catholic Central, sneaking past 2-0. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest victory the Knights have posted since April 24th.

St. Francis de Sales got a great performance from Nate Gamby as he didn't allow a single earned run while striking out seven over five innings pitched. Those seven strikeouts gave Gamby a new career-high.

At the plate, St. Francis de Sales saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Gabe Lisowski, who went 1-for-3 with one run, one double, and one RBI.

Meanwhile, Central Catholic fell victim to Defiance and their airtight pitching crew on Thursday. They came up short against the Bulldogs, falling 8-0. The loss continues a trend for the Fighting Irish in their meetings with the Bulldogs: they've now lost six in a row.

Central Catholic also got a good showing from Vinny Reamer, who pitched three innings while giving up just one earned run off two hits.

Central Catholic's defeat dropped their record down to 4-13. As for St. Francis de Sales, their win bumped their record up to 11-8-1.

Everything went St. Francis de Sales' way against Central Catholic in their previous matchup last Wednesday, as St. Francis de Sales made off with a 10-4 victory. Will the Knights repeat their success, or do the Fighting Irish have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.