The King Lions will face off against the McKeel Academy Wildcats at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. King will aim to continue their four-game streak of scoring more runs each contest than the last.
King is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Monday. Everything went their way against Tenoroc as they made off with a 17-0 victory. The game marked the Lions' most dominant win of the season.
Jacob Stepanek looked comfortable as he pitched 2.1 innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. He has become a key player for King: the team is 2-1 when he allows at most one hit, but 10-11 otherwise.
Xavier Gori
| 04/14/25 vs Tenoroc | 3 |
| 04/10/25 vs Brandon | 1 |
| 04/08/25 vs Tampa Bay Tech | 1 |
| 03/25/25 vs Armwood | 1 |
| 03/19/25 vs Lennard | 1 |
On the hitting side, King got a massive performance out of Xavier Gori, who scored three runs while going 3-for-3. Those three runs gave Gori a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Martin Galo, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 2-for-2.
King was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .500. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .379 or higher in three consecutive matches.
Meanwhile, McKeel Academy unfortunately witnessed the end of their eight-game winning streak on Thursday. They fell just short of Lakeland Christian by a score of 5-4.
McKeel Academy saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Logan Gill, who scored a run while going 1-for-2.
King is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine contests. That's provided a nice bump to their 12-12 record this season. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.3 runs on average over those games. As for McKeel Academy, their defeat dropped their record down to 16-7.
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