The South Plantation Paladins will be playing in front of their home fans against the South Broward Bulldogs at 3:45 p.m. on Thursday. The pair are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
South Plantation's pitching crew heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. Everything went their way against Piper as South Plantation made off with a 10-0 win. The victory made it back-to-back wins for South Plantation.
South Plantation got a great performance from Justin Martin as he kept things locked down with no earned runs or hits over five innings pitched.
At the plate, the team relied heavily on Elijah Pierce, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 3-for-4. Another player making a difference was Gio Mejia, who scored a run while going 1-for-2.
South Broward never got on the board in their matchup last Tuesday, but that sure wasn't the case in their game against Fort Lauderdale last Friday. They put the hurt on the Flying L's with a sharp 10-0 victory.
John Luechauer tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run and only one hit while striking out nine over 5.1 innings pitched.
On the hitting side, Cristian Brennan was a standout: he scored two runs while going 3-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Ricky Losada, who scored two runs while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
South Plantation's win ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 5-11. As for South Broward, the victory got them back to even at 10-10-1.
Everything went South Plantation's way against South Broward when the teams last played back in March of 2022 as South Plantation made off with a 10-0 win. Does South Plantation have another victory up their sleeve, or will South Broward turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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