It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Brookville had no problem doing just that on Wednesday. They beat the Oakwood Lumberjacks by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 4-3. This was a revenge game for the Blue Devils: when they faced off against the Lumberjacks back in April, they had to take a 6-4 defeat.
Lane Willoughby spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered three earned runs on three hits and racked up 11 Ks. Brookville is 2-1 when Willoughby posts ten or more strikeouts, but 7-15 otherwise.
Carson Collins
| 05/28/25 @ Oakwood | 3 |
| 05/09/25 @ Madison | 2 |
| 05/08/25 vs Monroe | 2 |
| 04/11/25 vs Twin Valley South | 2 |
| 03/31/25 @ Bath County | 2 |
On the hitting side, Brookville saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Carson Collins, who went 3-for-4 with one run. Those three hits gave Collins a new career-high. Grayson Reynolds was another, going 3-for-4 with one double.
Brookville was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .387. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Oakwood only posted a batting average of .130.
Brookville's win ended a four-game drought on the road and puts them at 9-16. As for Oakwood, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 15-6-1.
As of now, neither Brookville nor the Lumberjacks have any future games scheduled.
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