The Bolles Bulldogs will venture away from home to square off against the Bishop Kenny Crusaders at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Bolles has three straight wins, Bishop Kenny has five straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
If Bolles beats Bishop Kenny with six runs on Thursday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two matchups with that exact score. Bolles beat Mandarin on Tuesday by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 6-3.
Kline Cummings looked comfortable as he didn't allow a single earned run and allowed only one hit over four innings pitched. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than one earned run in four consecutive appearances.
At the plate, Bolles saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Denzel Del Valle Delgado, who scored two runs while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, Tuesday just wasn't the day for Bishop Kenny's offense. They came up short against Episcopal School of Jacksonville on Tuesday, falling 6-0. The game marked the first time this year in which the Crusaders were not able to get on the board.
Bishop Kenny also got a good showing from Michael Valley, who tossed 2.1 innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. The dominant performance also gave Valley a new career-high in strikeouts (two).
Bolles pushed their record up to 11-3 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.9 runs on average over those games. As for Bishop Kenny, their loss dropped their record down to 1-12.
Bolles suffered a grim 11-1 defeat to Bishop Kenny in their previous matchup back in April of 2024. Can Bolles avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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