Friends' Central entered their tilt with Perkiomen School with five consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with six. They won by a run and slipped past the Perkiomen School Panthers 2-1. For Friends' Central, this counts as revenge for the 6-4 loss Perkiomen School walked away with the last time they faced one another back in April.
For Perkiomen School's part, Hunter Petrich was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he tossed 6.1 innings while giving up just two earned runs off six hits.
On the hitting side, Perkiomen School saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Henry Clausell, who went 1-for-2 with a double.
Friends' Central's victory was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 10-4. As for Perkiomen School, their defeat ended a five-game streak of away wins and brought them to 11-3.
Friends' Central will head out on the road to challenge Episcopal Academy at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams have allowed few runs on average, (Episcopal Academy: 3.8, Friends' Central: 2.8) so any runs scored will be well earned. As for Perkiomen School, they didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next match, a 1-0 win vs. Shipley on the 1st.
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