Hudsonville is 5-0 against South Christian since April of 2018, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Tuesday. The Hudsonville Eagles will be playing at home against the South Christian Sailors at 4:30 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Hudsonville has five straight wins, South Christian has four straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Hudsonville is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Michigan's top teams: Byron Center, who was ranked 23rd in their home state at the time (Hudsonville was ranked 19th). Hudsonville's pitcher stepped up to hand Byron Center a 5-0 shutout on Friday. That's two games straight that Hudsonville has won by exactly five runs.
Hudsonville got a great performance from Breylan McPhaul as he didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out nine over six innings pitched.
At the plate, Hudsonville's victory was truly a team effort as five different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Ferris Eldred, who went 3-for-4 with an RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Kaden Howard, who got on base in three of his four plate appearances with two RBI.
Meanwhile, South Christian came up short against Wayland on Monday and fell 7-2.
Hudsonville has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 18 of their last 20 games, which provided a nice bump to their 27-10 record this season. As for South Christian, their defeat dropped their record down to 11-8.
Everything went Hudsonville's way against South Christian when the teams last played back in April of 2023 as Hudsonville made off with a 6-0 win. Will Hudsonville repeat their success, or does South Christian have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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