Baseball Game Preview: Atlantic Coast Stingrays vs. Creekside Knights

Stingrays

Runs

03/19/25 vs Bartram Trail	5
03/17/25 vs Oviedo	10
03/14/25 vs Wolfson	11
03/13/25 @ Paxon School For Advanced Studies	3
03/11/25 vs Englewood	2
+ 9 more games

Atlantic Coast is 2-8 against Creekside since February of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Thursday. The Atlantic Coast Stingrays will be taking part in a tournament against the Creekside Knights at 7:00 p.m. Atlantic Coast is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 8.1 runs per game this season.

Atlantic Coast easily dispatched Oviedo on Monday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. Atlantic Coast fell just short of Bartram Trail by a score of 7-5 on Wednesday.

Atlantic Coast saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Wade Surber, who went 2-for-4 with one triple, two RBI, and one run. That triple marked the first that Surber hit this season.

Meanwhile, Creekside had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4 runs) and they went ahead and made it five on Wednesday. They came within a single run of losing the streak, but they secured a 6-5 W against the Wolverines. Six seems to be a good number for the Knights as the team scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.

Nicholas Romeu tossed a big game, striking out nine batters over six innings while giving up just two earned runs off five hits. Those nine strikeouts gave him a new career-high.

Creekside's victory bumped their record up to 9-6. As for Atlantic Coast, their defeat dropped their record down to 8-6.

Creekside's pitching crew has a crucial task ahead of them: Atlantic Coast has hit smart this season, having averaged an OBP of .433. It's a different story for Creekside, though, as they've only averaged .360. Will they be able to contain Atlantic Coast's hitters?

Atlantic Coast skirted past Creekside 4-2 in their previous matchup back in February. The rematch might be a little tougher for Atlantic Coast since the squad won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.