The Armwood Hawks will square off against the Sickles Gryphons at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Armwood has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the contest with four straight defeats, while Sickles will come in with six straight wins.
Armwood saw some tournament action on Saturday. They took a 6-2 hit to the loss column at the hands of Carrollwood Day.
Zalen Hicks was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he didn't allow a single earned run over six innings pitched.
At the plate, Armwood saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Rhys Brush, who scored a run while going 1-for-3. Princeton Clark also deserves some recognition as he hit his first double of the season.
Meanwhile, Sickles has relied on a stalwart pitchers averaging 3.92 runs allowed per game, but that average took a hit on Saturday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Tampa Catholic 13-12. Sickles' win was all the more impressive since the Crusaders were averaging only 2.47 runs allowed on the season.
Sickles got a massive performance out of Jordan Yost, who got on base in all four of his plate appearances with one home run, three runs, and four RBI. That's the most runs Yost has posted since back in February. Another player making a difference was Jake Taylor, who went 2-for-4 with one home run, three runs, and two RBI.
Sickles was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .417. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .344 or higher in four consecutive games.
Sickles' victory was their eighth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 10-3. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.9 runs on average over those games. As for Armwood, their loss dropped their record down to 3-9.
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