Baseball Recap: Hopkinsville Drops Season-High Score on Fort Campbell

Tigers

Team Score (Highest)

04/18/25 vs Fort Campbell	16
04/10/25 vs Northeast	14
04/17/25 @ Fort Campbell	11
03/18/25 vs Union County	11
04/02/25 vs Talawanda	10

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Hopkinsville). Everything went their way against the Fort Campbell Falcons on Friday as they made off with a 16-1 win. Winning may never get old, but the Tigers sure are getting used to it with their third in a row.

Joshua ?Deuce? Embrey II made a big impact while hitting and pitching. He looked comfortable on the mound, pitching three innings while giving up no earned runs off two hits. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in strikeouts (five). He was also big at the plate, going 1-for-2 with two stolen bases, two RBI, and one run.

In other batting news, Hopkinsville got a massive performance out of Chase Fort, who got on base in three of his four plate appearances with three RBI, two runs, and one stolen base. Those three RBI gave Fort a new career-high. Jayden Kellum was another key player, getting on base in all three of his plate appearances with three stolen bases and two runs.

Hopkinsville hit smart and finished the game with only one strikeout. They are a perfect 3-0 when they post two or more strikeouts.

Hopkinsville pushed their record up to 8-7 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. Those home wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.7 runs on average over those games. As for Fort Campbell, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 2-10.

Coming up, Hopkinsville will face off against McLean County at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. As for Fort Campbell, they will square off against Ballard Memorial at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. The Falcons are facing the Bombers at the right time seeing as the Bombers are stuck on a four-game losing streak.