Baseball Preview: Santa Fe Trail Chargers vs. Silver Lake Eagles
Santa Fe Trail has been on the road for two straight, but on Friday they'll finally head home. They will take on the Silver Lake Eagles at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The pair have allowed few runs on average, (Santa Fe Trail: 2.8, Silver Lake: 3.5) so any runs scored will be well earned.
On Tuesday, it was a hard-fought contest, but Santa Fe Trail had to settle for a 6-5 defeat against Wellsville.
Kyle Strother put in work while hitting and pitching. He didn't allow a single hit, only two earned runs while striking out eight over five innings pitched. Strother was also stellar in the batter's box, firing off two home runs and four RBI while going 3-for-4.
Strother wasn't the only one making solid contact as five players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Trent Sleichter, who scored two runs while going 3-for-4.
Meanwhile, Silver Lake came tearing into Tuesday's match with three straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 14.3 runs) and they left with even more momentum. They had just enough and edged the Wildcats out 9-8.
Santa Fe Trail's loss dropped their record down to 16-3. As for Silver Lake, their win bumped their record up to 6-4-2.
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