Bishop O'Connell is 2-8 against DeMatha since April of 2017 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The Bishop O'Connell Knights will head out on the road to take on the DeMatha Stags at 4:30 p.m. Bishop O'Connell is strutting in with some hitting muscle, as they've averaged 6.4 runs per game this season.
Bishop O'Connell had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.5 runs), and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. Everything went their way against the Cougars as they made off with a 9-2 win. Nine seems to be a good number for Bishop O'Connell as the squad scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Jack Rampy looked comfortable as he struck out six batters over three innings while giving up no earned runs or hits (and not a single walk).
On the hitting side, Bishop O'Connell got a big performance out of Truman Leckey, who went 1-for-3 with a home run and two runs. The team also got some help courtesy of Noah Haught, who scored a run while going 3-for-4.
Meanwhile, DeMatha unfortunately witnessed the end of their eight-game winning streak on Saturday. They fell just short of Gonzaga by a score of 2-1. The result shouldn't come as a shock considering that's the fewest runs DeMatha has scored all season.
Bishop O'Connell now has a winning record of 3-2. As for DeMatha, their loss ended a seven-game streak of away wins dating back to last season and brought them to 8-1.
Bishop O'Connell came out on top in a nail-biter against DeMatha when the teams last played back in May of 2023, sneaking past 1-0. Will Bishop O'Connell repeat their success, or does DeMatha have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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