The Sports Leadership & Management Spartans will challenge the Seffner Christian Crusaders at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. Sports Leadership & Management will be looking to extend their current three-game winning streak.
Sports Leadership & Management is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They skirted past Cambridge Christian 7-6. That's two games straight that the Spartans have won by just one run.
Sports Leadership & Management's win was truly a team effort as five different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Adonys Nova, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, Seffner Christian made easy work of Victory Christian Academy on Tuesday and carried off a 12-2 victory. That's two games straight that the Crusaders have won by exactly ten runs.
Seffner Christian also got a great performance from Alejandro Hamana as he struck out six batters over five innings while giving up just two earned runs off three hits. Those hits marked the first that Hamana allowed this season.
At the plate, Kris Colondres and Brayden Nanns did most of the damage at the plate: Colondres went 2-for-4 with one home run, three RBI, and two runs, while Nanns scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-4. Colondres has become a key player for Seffner Christian: the team is 7-1 when he posts at least two runs, but 6-9 otherwise. Kalab Williams was another key player, scoring a run while going 2-for-3.
Seffner Christian was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .500. That's the best batting average they've posted all season.
Seffner Christian is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight games. That's provided a nice bump to their 13-10 record this season. Those wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 9.9 runs over those games. As for Sports Leadership & Management, their victory bumped their record up to 9-14.
Sports Leadership & Management came up short against Seffner Christian when the teams last played back in February, falling 9-4. Can the Spartans avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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