Baseball Preview: Draper APA Eagles vs. Freedom Prep Academy Eagles
The Draper APA Eagles will face off against the Freedom Prep Academy Eagles at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. Draper APA is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 12.4 runs per game this season.
Draper APA's pitching crew heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. Everything went their way against Freedom Prep Academy as Draper APA made off with a 15-0 win. Draper APA might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three games by 12 runs or more this season.
Kason Crafts made a splash while hitting and pitching. He looked comfortable on the mound, not allowing a single earned run and only one hit while striking out eight over four innings pitched. Draper APA is 2-1 when Crafts allowsone or fewer hits, but 2-3-1 otherwise. Crafts was also big at the plate, scoring two runs and stealing five bases while going 1-for-1. Crafts is crushing it when it comes to stolen bases: he's stolen at least one every time he's taken the field this season.
In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Hayden Caldwell, who scored two runs and stole five bases while going 2-for-2. He has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last three times he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Weston Stratton, who scored two runs and stole four bases while going 1-for-1.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Draper APA was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .727. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .333 or higher in six consecutive contests.
The victory got Draper APA back to even at 4-4-1. As for Freedom Prep Academy, they are on a six-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 0-8-1.
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