The Forest Park Panthers are taking a road trip to challenge the Pace Academy Knights at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: both posted some lofty run totals in their previous games.
On Monday, everything went Forest Park's way against Salem as Forest Park made off with a 16-6 win.
Meanwhile, Pace Academy came tearing into Tuesday's game with four straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 13.3 runs) and they left with even more momentum. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Seminoles a 12-0 shutout. Considering the Knights have won nine matchups by more than eight runs this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.
Katie Wrigley and Megan Wrigley made a splash while hitting and pitching. Throwing, Wrigley didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out ten over four innings pitched. Meanwhile, Megan struck out eight batters over three innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. Katie has been consistent recently: she hasn't tossed less than eight strikeouts in four consecutive pitching appearances. At bat, Wrigley got on base in three of her four plate appearances with a home run, two runs, and two RBI, while Megan scored two runs and stole two bases while going 2-for-4.
In other batting news, Kate Grice was incredible, going 2-for-4 with four RBI, two runs, and a triple. The team also got some help courtesy of Amelit Hall, who went 1-for-3 with two runs and a triple.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Pace Academy didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 18 strikeouts. That's the most strikeouts they've posted since was before the start of last season.
The victory got Forest Park back to even at 8-8. As for Pace Academy, they pushed their record up to 12-4 with that win, which was their third straight on the road.
Forest Park suffered a grim 19-0 defeat to Pace Academy when the teams last played back in August. Can Forest Park avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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