St. Peter came tearing into Thursday's match with ten straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4.8 runs) and they left with even more momentum. They never let the St. Joseph-by-the-Sea Vikings onto the board and left with a 1-0 win. For St. Peter's, this counts as revenge for the 1-0 loss St. Joseph-by-the-Sea walked away with the last time they faced one another back in April of 2023.
Not much got past Chris Bedford, who gave up just five hits and racked up seven Ks to keep St. Joseph-by-the-Sea off the board. Bedford has been consistent recently: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in six consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, St. Peter's victory was truly a team effort as three different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Ty Mainolfi, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
St. Peter's pushed their record up to 22-2 with that win, which was their seventh straight on the road. As for St. Joseph-by-the-Sea, they now have a losing record at 1-2.
St. Peter's will have a chance to go back-to-back against St. Joseph-by-the-Sea: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 4:15 p.m. on Monday.
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