Paramus Catholic is 1-9 against St. Joseph Regional since April of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Paladins will host the Green Knights at 4:15 p.m. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Paramus Catholic 4, St. Joseph Regional 3.7) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Paramus Catholic is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 11 runs on Saturday, they were much more limited against St. Joseph Regional on Monday. They fell just short of the Green Knights by a score of 3-2.
For St. Joseph Regional's part, they got a great performance from Neylin Navarro as he pitched 5.1 innings while giving up just two earned runs off four hits. The dominant performance also gave Navarro a new career-high in strikeouts (four).
At the plate, the team relied heavily on Carter Grande, who went 2-for-3 with one home run, one triple, and two RBI. That triple marked the first that he has hit this season.
St. Joseph Regional always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .519. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Paramus Catholic only posted an OBP of .250.
The win (which was St. Joseph Regional's third in a row) raised their record to 15-6. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.3 runs on average over those games. As for Paramus Catholic, their loss dropped their record down to 9-8.
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