The Ascend Leadership Aviators will head out on the road to face off against the River Mill Jaguars at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Ascend Leadership is coming into the contest on a five-game losing streak.
Last Tuesday, it was a hard-fought match, but Ascend Leadership had to settle for an 8-7 defeat against Southern Wake Academy.
Ascend Leadership got a big performance out of Trenton Ruhlman, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of Jude Reyes, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a double.
River Mill won a close one the last time they played, but unfortunately they suffered a serious change of fortune on Tuesday. They wound up on the wrong side of a tough 10-0 walloping at the hands of Chatham Charter. Having soared to a lofty 11 runs in the game before, River Mill's shutout was a dramatic turnaround.
Ascend Leadership's loss dropped their record down to 1-9. As for River Mill, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-7.
Ascend Leadership couldn't quite finish off River Mill in their previous meeting on Monday and fell 11-9. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of River Mill's Blake Lutterloh, who struck out 13 batters over 6.2 innings while giving up just one earned run off one hit. Now that Ascend Leadership knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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