The Royal Palm Beach Wildcats will head out on the road to take on the King's Academy Lions at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty run totals in their previous games.
Royal Palm Beach scored the most runs they've had all season to find success on Thursday. They put the hurt on Leonard with a sharp 33-23 victory. That's two games straight that Royal Palm Beach has won by exactly ten runs.
Meanwhile, King's Academy had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 14.8 runs), and they went ahead and made it six on Tuesday. They came out on top against the Panthers by a score of 10-5.
Gracyn Needle and Lily Stone did most of the damage at the plate: Needle scored two runs and stole two bases while going 3-for-4, while Stone went 2-for-3 with two runs, a triple, and two RBI. Needle is on a roll when it comes to stolen bases, as she's now stolen at least one in the last six games she's played. Kiersten Zimmerman was another key contributor, scoring two runs and stealing a base while going 2-for-4.
The win made it two in a row for Royal Palm Beach and bumps their season record up to 3-6. As for King's Academy, they pushed their record up to 14-1 with that victory, which was their 15th straight at home dating back to last season.
Royal Palm Beach suffered a grim 15-0 defeat to King's Academy when the teams last played back in March. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of King's Academy's Caroline Duncan, who tossed two innings while giving up no earned runs or hits (she also didn't allow any walks). Now that Royal Palm Beach knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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