Baseball Game Preview: Lampeter-Strasburg Pioneers vs. Elizabethtown Bears

The Lampeter-Strasburg Pioneers will challenge the Elizabethtown Bears at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Lampeter-Strasburg 3.4, Elizabethtown 3.6) so any runs scored will be well earned.

Lampeter-Strasburg is probably headed into the matchup with a chip on their shoulder considering Hempfield just ended the team's seven-game winning streak on Friday. They came up short against the Black Knights, falling 8-2. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest loss the Pioneers have suffered since April 26, 2024.

Lampeter-Strasburg saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Chase Messinger, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-4. Another was Cooper Hillen, who scored a run while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.

Meanwhile, Elizabethtown had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 12 runs) and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. They came within a single run of losing the streak, but they secured a 5-4 W against the Buckskins. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest win the Bears have posted since May 6, 2024.

Elizabethtown now has a winning record of 4-3. As for Lampeter-Strasburg, their defeat dropped their record down to 7-2.

Lampeter-Strasburg was able to grind out a solid victory over Elizabethtown when the teams last played back in May of 2024, winning 11-8. Will the Pioneers repeat their success, or do the Bears have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.