The King's Academy Lions will look to defend their home field on Friday against the Calvary Christian Academy Eagles at 6:30 p.m. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
Last Friday, King's Academy suffered a rough 10-4 defeat at the hands of St. John Paul II Academy.
Luke Shelhamer was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring a run and stealing a base while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances. Another player making a difference was Dalton Needle, who scored a run while going 2-for-4.
Meanwhile, after a string of seven wins, Calvary Christian Academy's good fortune finally ran out on Wednesday. They fell 5-0 to Miami Christian. The matchup marked that first time this season in which Calvary Christian Academy was not able to get on the board.
Calvary Christian Academy saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Carlos Lugo, who went 1-for-3 with a double.
King's Academy now has a losing record at 5-6. As for Calvary Christian Academy, their loss ended a five-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 10-2.
King's Academy suffered a grim 12-0 defeat to Calvary Christian Academy when the teams last played back in February. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Calvary Christian Academy's Blake Sundberg, who kept things locked down with no earned runs or hits over four innings pitched. Now that King's Academy 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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