The Kaplan Pirates will face off against the Barbe Buccaneers at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Kaplan has 13 straight wins, Barbe has five straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Kaplan is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Louisiana's top teams: St. Thomas More, who was ranked 13th at the time (Kaplan was ranked seventh). The Pirates came out on top against the Cougars by a score of 7-4 on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Barbe lost 13-3 to Sulphur on Tuesday.
Kaplan pushed their record up to 23-1 with the victory, which was their seventh straight on the road. Those road wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 10.0 runs over those games. As for Barbe, their defeat dropped their record down to 12-11.
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