Colonial Beach is on a nine-game streak of home losses (dating back to last season), Lackey a seven-game streak of away losses (dating back to last season), but someone's luck is about to change. The Colonial Beach Drifters will take on the Lackey Chargers at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. Neither Colonial Beach nor Lackey posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.
On Thursday, Colonial Beach didn't have quite enough to beat Westmoreland and fell 3-2.
Zachary Combs put in work no matter where he played. He looked comfortable on the mound, not allowing a single earned run and only one hit while striking out 11 over 4.2 innings pitched. Combs has been consistent recently: he hasn't tossed less than seven strikeouts in five consecutive pitching appearances. Combs was also solid in the batter's box, scoring a run while going 2-for-3.
Combs wasn't the only one making solid contact as seven players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Gary Tompkins, who went 2-for-3 with two doubles and an RBI.
Meanwhile, Saturday just wasn't the day for Lackey's offense. They lost 13-0 to McDonough on Saturday.
Colonial Beach's loss dropped their record down to 3-8. As for Lackey, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-7.
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