Lawrence North entered their tilt with Decatur Central with eight consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with nine. They walked away with a 6-1 victory over the Decatur Central Hawks on Wednesday. Six seems to be a good number for Lawrence North as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Lawrence North got a great performance from Brendan Boynton as he struck out seven batters over six innings while giving up just one earned run off six hits.
On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Logan Crock, who scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances. Theo Kramer was another key contributor, going 2-for-3 with a triple and a run.
On Decatur Central's side, they saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Michael Garrison, who scored a run while going 1-for-2.
Lawrence North pushed their record up to 18-3 with that victory, which was their seventh straight at home. As for Decatur Central, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 8-13.
Lawrence North will head out on the road to square off against Pike at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. Pike is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.2 runs per game this season. As for Decatur Central, they will look to defend their home field on Friday against Martinsville at 6:00 p.m. Decatur Central is facing Martinsville at the right time seeing as Martinsville is stuck on an 11-game losing streak.
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