The Lake Park Lancers will head out to take on the Padua Franciscan Bruins at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Lake Park has four straight victories, Padua Franciscan has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Lake Park is headed in fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. Everything went their way against East Carter on Tuesday as they made off with a 13-1 win. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
Gianna Furlano tossed a big game, tossing five innings while giving up just one earned run off four hits.
On the hitting side, Arianna O'Connell and Ava Arenz did most of the damage at the plate: O'Connell scored three runs and stole a base while going 3-for-4, while Arenz went 3-for-4 with three runs, one triple, and two RBI. That's the most runs Arenz has posted since back in April of 2024. Reese Nolbertowicz also deserves some recognition as she brought in her first RBI of the season.
Lake Park was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .500. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .304 or higher every time they've taken the field this season.
Meanwhile, Padua Franciscan fought the good fight in their extra-innings match against Boyd County on Wednesday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Lions by a score of 4-3.
Lake Park's win was their fourth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 4-0. Those road victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.3 runs on average this season. As for Padua Franciscan, they now have a losing record of 2-3.
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