Baseball Game Preview: St. Bernard-Elmwood Place Titans vs. Gamble Montessori Gators

The St. Bernard-Elmwood Place Titans will challenge the Gamble Montessori Gators at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.

St. Bernard-Elmwood Place is headed in fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They never let Stivers School for the Arts get on the board and left with a 30-0 victory on Monday. The result was nothing new for the Titans, who have now won seven games by ten runs or more so far this season.

Keenan Derrenkamp

Runs (Career)

04/28/25 vs Stivers School for the Arts	4
04/09/25 vs North College Hill	2
04/07/25 @ Taft	2
04/02/25 vs Lockland	2
04/19/25 @ Finneytown	1

Keenan Derrenkamp made a big impact no matter where he played. He pitched one inning while giving up no earned runs off one hit. Derrenkamp was also big at the plate, getting on base in three of his four plate appearances with four runs, one triple, and one stolen base. Those four runs gave him a new career-high.

In other pitching news, Evan Hovenga looked comfortable as he pitched one inning while giving up no earned runs or hits.

Back at the plate, St. Bernard-Elmwood Place got a massive performance out of Jason Helphinstein, who went a perfect 4-for-4 with one home run, five RBI, and three runs. Helphinstein is becoming a predictor of the Titans' success: when he posts at least two runs the team is undefeated (and 2-3 when he doesn't). Another player making a difference was Nathan Schulte, who went 2-for-3 with one home run, four runs, and four RBI.

St. Bernard-Elmwood Place was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .654. They are a perfect 7-0 when they post a batting average of .375 or better.

Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Gamble Montessori, who bounced back after a loss on the road on Saturday. Everything went their way against Spencer Center on Monday as they made off with an 18-6 win. The high-flying hitting performance was a huge turnaround for the Gators considering their one-run performance the match before.

St. Bernard-Elmwood Place is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five contests. That's provided a nice bump to their 9-3 record this season. Gamble Montessori's first victory this season bumped their record up to 1-3.