The Ocean View Christian Patriots will look to defend their home field on Wednesday against the Liberty Charter Lions at 2:30 p.m. Neither of those teams managed to put together many runs in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual.
Ocean View Christian's hitters might be in the hot seat on Wednesday considering what happened against Mountain Empire on Tuesday. Their tough 17-0 defeat to the Redhawks might stick with them for a while.
Meanwhile, Liberty Charter came up short against High Tech CV on Tuesday and fell 4-1.
Liberty Charter saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Brody Harris, who went 1-for-3 with a stolen base and an RBI.
Ocean View Christian's loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 5-4. As for Liberty Charter, their defeat dropped their record down to 5-12.
The batters for both teams will have to hit smart on Wednesday as both have some strikeout artists on the roster. Ocean View Christian has been retiring batters left and right this season, having averaged 8.9 strikeouts per game. However, it's not like Liberty Charter struggles in that department as they've been averaging 9.5. Considering how easily both teams rack up Ks, the hitters on both teams better bring their A-game into this one.
Ocean View Christian suffered a grim 11-0 defeat to Liberty Charter in their previous meeting on April 9th. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Harris, who didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out nine over four innings pitched. Now that Ocean View Christian knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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