The St. Brendan Sabres will face off against the Southwest Eagles at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Neither St. Brendan nor Southwest posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.
St. Brendan's pitching crew heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. They skirted past Mater Academy Charter 2-0.
Not much got past Jan Perez Fernandez, who gave up just three hits and racked up seven Ks to keep Mater Academy Charter off the board. Those seven strikeouts gave Perez Fernandez a new career-high.
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At the plate, the team relied heavily on Kevin Leon, who scored a run while going 3-for-3. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in hits.
Meanwhile, Southwest was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their third straight loss. They were a single run away from ending the streak, but they lost a 3-2 heartbreaker at the hands of Miami Christian.
Southwest also got a good showing from Kaleb Hernandez, who didn't allow a single earned run over four innings pitched. Hernandez has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than two walks in three consecutive appearances.
On the hitting side, Southwest saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Orisjoe Valdes, who scored a run while going 2-for-4. Matthew Salazar also deserves some recognition as he hit his first double of the season.
St. Brendan has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four matchups. That's provided a nice bump to their 7-4 record this season. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to strikeouts: they averaged an imposing 8.25 strikeouts in those games compared to only 3.71 in the others. Southwest now has a losing record of 3-4.
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