Baseball Recap: Orangeburg-Wilkinson Beats Battery Creek for Their Third Straight Win

Orangeburg-Wilkinson waltzed into their match on Tuesday with two straight wins... but they left with three. They never let the Battery Creek Dolphins get on the board and left with a 16-0 victory.

Xavier Glover

Runs Batted In (Career)

04/22/25 vs Battery Creek	3
04/08/25 @ North Charleston	2
03/24/25 @ Westwood	2
03/19/25 vs Bamberg-Ehrhardt	2

Xavier Glover was a major factor no matter where he played. On the mound, he tossed three innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. He is becoming a predictor of Orangeburg-Wilkinson's success: when he allows at most one hit the team is 2-1 (and 5-6 when he doesn't). Glover was even better at the plate, going 3-for-4 with three RBI, two runs, and one triple. Those three RBI gave him a new career-high.

In other batting news, Kaleb Jamison was a standout: he went 2-for-3 with four stolen bases and two runs. Orangeburg-Wilkinson is 4-1 when Jamison posts two or more runs, but 3-6 otherwise. The team also got some help courtesy of Donovan Hughes, who went 1-for-2 with three runs, one stolen base, and one double.

Orangeburg-Wilkinson always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .677. They are 6-2 when they post an OBP of .513 or better.

The win got Orangeburg-Wilkinson back to even at 7-7. As for Battery Creek, they dropped their record down to 3-6 with the loss, which was their ninth straight on the road dating back to last season.

Both teams will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. Orangeburg-Wilkinson will head out to face off against Edisto at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. As for Battery Creek, they will square off against Whale Branch at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday.