Baseball Game Preview: Mason Comets vs. St. Xavier Bombers

Comets

Runs

05/13/25 vs Centerville	3
05/10/25 vs St. Ignatius	2
05/09/25 @ Sycamore	8
05/07/25 vs Sycamore	11
05/05/25 vs Middletown	7
+ 17 more games

The Mason Comets will venture away from home to face off against the St. Xavier Bombers at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. Mason is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.5 runs per game this season.

Mason will head out to face St. Xavier after giving up their first home loss of the season on Tuesday. The Comets fell just short of Centerville by a score of 4-3. That's two games in a row now that the Comets have lost by just one run.

Aiden Henger was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he didn't allow a single earned run and allowed only one hit over five innings pitched. He has been consistent: he hasn't given up more than two walks any time he's pitched this season.

On the hitting side, Mason saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was JJ Darst, who went 2-for-4 with one stolen base and one RBI.

Meanwhile, St. Xavier won against Talawanda on Monday with ten runs and they decided to stick to that run total again on Wednesday. The Bombers put the hurt on Batavia with a sharp 10-3 win. Winning may never get old, but the Bombers sure are getting used to it with their third in a row.

This is the second loss in a row for Mason and nudges their season record down to 18-4. Even worse, they were so close both times: the defeats came by an average of only one runs. As for St. Xavier, the victory got them back to even at 11-11.

Mason beat St. Xavier 4-1 when the teams last played back in May of 2024. Do the Comets have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Bombers turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.