Gainesville has won four straight games at home, while St. John has won four straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Wednesday. The Cardinals will host the Cadets at 4:30 p.m. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Gainesville 1.4, St. John's 1.6) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Gainesville is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Virginia's top teams: Abingdon, who was ranked fifth at the time (Gainesville was ranked sixth). The Cardinals never let the Falcons get on the board and left with a 1-0 victory on Monday. The one-run effort marked the Cardinals' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Meanwhile, St. John's made easy work of Our Lady of Good Counsel on Tuesday and carried off a 6-0 win. Considering the Cadets have won 15 games by more than five runs this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.
Gainesville's victory bumped their record up to 10-1. As for St. John's, their win bumped their record up to 19-1.
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