The Castle Knights will head out to take on the Apollo Eagles at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Castle will aim to continue their four-game streak of scoring more runs each match than the last.
Castle is headed in fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. Everything went their way against Evansville Bosse on Tuesday as they made off with a 13-1 victory. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest win of the season.
Meanwhile, Apollo got themselves on the board against Owensboro Catholic on Tuesday, but Owensboro Catholic never followed suit. They didn't even let the Aces on the board, marking their second-straight 6-0 shutout. Considering the Eagles have won six contests by more than five runs this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.
Ross Milburn made a splash while hitting and pitching. He didn't allow a single earned run and allowed only two hits while striking out six over seven innings pitched. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than one earned run in four consecutive appearances. He was also solid in the batter's box, going 3-for-4 with one run and one double.
In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Ryleigh Logan, who went a perfect 4-for-4 with two RBI, one run, and one double. Those four hits gave him a new career-high. Will Wilkins also deserves some recognition as he brought in his first RBI of the season.
Apollo was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .387. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Owensboro Catholic only posted a batting average of .087.
Apollo has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four games. That's provided a nice bump to their 10-5 record this season. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.3 runs on average over those games. As for Castle, their win was their first in the conference, bumping their conference record up to 1-2 and their overall record up to 7-3.
Castle couldn't quite finish off Apollo in their previous meeting back in March of 2024 and fell 7-5. Can the Knights avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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