Baseball Recap: Brother Rice Falls Short Against Ranked St. Laurence

Crusaders

Previous 5 Games

05/23/25 vs St. Laurence	3-8
05/19/25 @ Marist	9-2
05/17/25 vs St. Laurence	6-2
05/15/25 @ St. Laurence	12-2
05/14/25 vs Chicago Mt. Carmel	5-4

Brother Rice faced St. Laurence in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Friday. The Crusaders fell 8-3 to the Vikings. The Crusaders' loss signaled the end of their four-game winning streak.

Brady Cunningham was huge no matter where he played even without the win. On the mound, he didn't allow a single earned run over four innings pitched. Cunningham was also solid in the batter's box, going 1-for-3 with one triple and one run.

Cunningham wasn't the only one making solid contact as five players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Conner Stack, who got on base in three of his four plate appearances with one RBI.

Brother Rice's defeat dropped their record down to 30-3. As for St. Laurence, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 28-5.

Brother Rice does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for St. Laurence, they will head out on the road to face off against Andrean on Monday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (the Vikings 3.7, the Fighting 59ers 2.5) so any runs scored will be well earned.