Baseball Game Preview: Althoff Catholic Crusaders vs. Centralia Orphans

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04/06/23 - Home	7-6 W
04/04/23 - Away	7-9 L
05/12/22 - Away	7-3 W
04/05/22 - Home	6-0 W
05/29/21 - Neutral	2-9 L
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Althoff Catholic is 8-2 against Centralia since April of 2018 and they'll have a chance to extend that dominance on Wednesday. The Crusaders will welcome the Orphans at 4:30 p.m. Althoff Catholic is coming into the matchup on a five-game losing streak.

On Friday, Althoff Catholic didn't have quite enough to beat Civic Memorial and fell 3-2.

Althoff Catholic saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Indy Johaningmeyer, who went 1-for-3 with one triple.

Meanwhile, Centralia suffered their closest loss since April 17th on Saturday. They wound up with the same score they had in their last game (6-4), but sadly the team found themselves on the wrong side of the score this time. The defeat continues a trend for them in their meetings with the Midgets: they've now lost six in a row.

Althoff Catholic's loss dropped their record down to 5-22. As for Centralia, they now have a losing record of 12-13.

Althoff Catholic skirted past Centralia 7-6 in their previous meeting back in April of 2023. Will the Crusaders repeat their success, or do the Orphans have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.