The St. Mary Catholic Zephyrs will challenge the Luxemburg-Casco Spartans at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. St. Mary Catholic will be strutting in after a win while Luxemburg-Casco will be coming in after a loss.
If St. Mary Catholic beats Luxemburg-Casco with eight runs on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. The Zephyrs beat Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah on Thursday by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 8-3. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Zephyrs.
Alex Rice and Luke Fairweather did most of the damage at the plate: Rice went a perfect 2-for-2 with one run and one RBI, while Fairweather went 2-for-4 with two RBI and one double. That's the most RBI Fairweather has posted since back in May of 2024. The team also got some help courtesy of Carter Nicholson, who went 2-for-3 with two runs.
St. Mary Catholic always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .528. They are a perfect 3-0 when they post an OBP of .513 or better.
Meanwhile, after a string of four wins, Luxemburg-Casco's good fortune finally ran out on Thursday. They took a 7-3 hit to the loss column at the hands of Fox Valley Lutheran.
Luxemburg-Casco saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Caleb Radart, who went 2-for-3 with one stolen base. Carson Blohowiak also deserves some recognition as he scored his first run of the season.
St. Mary Catholic pushed their record up to 6-5 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. Those home wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.7 runs on average over those games. As for Luxemburg-Casco, their defeat dropped their record down to 9-3.
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