The Green Hope Falcons will venture away from home to take on the Laney Buccaneers at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
Green Hope easily dispatched Panther Creek on Thursday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. The Falcons fell just short of Apex Friendship by a score of 7-5 on Friday. The defeat continues a trend for the Falcons in their meetings with the Patriots: they've now lost four in a row.
Mason Dean
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Mason Dean was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring two runs and stealing three bases while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances. He has been hot recently, having posted two or more stolen bases the last three times he's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Troy Haynes, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, Laney waltzed into their match on Tuesday with three straight wins... but they left with four. They came out on top against the Pirates by a score of 6-1. Six seems to be a good number for the Buccaneers as the squad scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
TJ Ziermann made a splash while hitting and pitching. He didn't allow a single earned run while striking out nine over seven innings pitched. Ziermann was also solid in the batter's box, going 2-for-3 with one triple and one double.
Ziermann wasn't the only one making solid contact as five players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Trent Fowler, who went 1-for-2 with two RBI and one double. Another was Owen Gore, who went 1-for-3 with two RBI and one double.
Laney's record is now 8-4. As for Green Hope, their loss dropped their record down to 4-10.
Green Hope suffered a grim 12-1 defeat to Laney in their previous meeting back in March. Can the Falcons avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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