Baseball Recap: Make It Eight in a Row for Anchor Bay

Tars

Previous Games

05/17/25 vs Fraser	11-2
05/17/25 vs Fraser	4-2
05/15/25 @ St. Clair	4-3
05/14/25 @ St. Clair	15-4
05/12/25 vs St. Clair	7-1
+ 3 more games

Anchor Bay waltzed into their match on Saturday with seven straight wins... but they left with eight. They blew past the Fraser Ramblers 11-2. That's the second time they've managed to beat them this season, as they also won 4-2 on Saturday.

N Vanacker looked comfortable as he tossed four innings while giving up just two earned runs off three hits. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in strikeouts (five).

At the plate, Anchor Bay let Jackson Salter and Austin McMahon run wild. Salter got on base in three of his four plate appearances with three runs and one stolen base, while McMahon went 2-for-4 with two runs and two doubles. Those three runs gave Salter a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Eli Bechtel, who went 1-for-2 with two RBI and one double.

Anchor Bay always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .514. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Fraser only posted an OBP of .281.

Anchor Bay's victory was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 16-9. Those home wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.2 runs on average over those games. As for Fraser, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 15-13.

Anchor Bay and Fraser should be looking forward to their upcoming games as both have a sizable advantage in the MaxPreps Michigan Rankings. The Tars (ranked 92nd) will meet L'Anse Creuse (ranked 315th) at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Meanwhile, Fraser will take on Mott at 4:00 p.m. on Monday with a big rank advantage (204 vs. 439).