Baseball Recap: Boyd-Buchanan extends home winning streak to eight

By Team Reports May 4, 2024, 6:37am

Baseball Recap: Boyd-Buchanan Buccaneers vs. King's Academy Lions

With a playoff game on the line, Boyd-Buchanan rose to the challenge on Friday. They won by a run and slipped past the King's Academy Lions 3-2. For Boyd-Buchanan, this counts as revenge for the 13-3 loss King's Academy walked away with the last time they faced one another back in May of 2021.

Read Butler spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered only one earned (and one unearned) run on six hits.

At the plate, Boyd-Buchanan's win was truly a team effort as seven different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Xavier Embry, who went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.

Boyd-Buchanan's victory was their eighth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 28-4. As for King's Academy, they have traveled a rocky road recently having lost three of their last four contests, which put a noticeable dent in their 11-9 record this season.

The teams didn't have to wait long for a rematch: Boyd-Buchanan beat King's Academy by a score of 8-0 later that day.

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