The Gray's Creek Bears will head out on the road to square off against the Cape Fear Colts at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average, (Gray's Creek: 3.3, Cape Fear: 3.5) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Last Friday, Gray's Creek came up short against South View and fell 6-2. That's two games in a row now that Gray's Creek has lost by exactly four runs.
Gray's Creek saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Amaury Brockington, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Meanwhile, in what's become a running theme this season, Cape Fear gave their fans yet another huge win on Tuesday. Everything went their way against South View as Cape Fear made off with an 11-2 victory. Winning may never get old, but Cape Fear sure is getting used to it with their eighth in a row.
Logan Rayburn looked comfortable as he pitched 2.2 innings while giving up no earned run off one hit.
At the plate, Mason Hughes was incredible, scoring three runs and stealing a base while getting on base in four of his five plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Landon Underwood, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 1-for-3.
This is the second loss in a row for Gray's Creek and nudges their season record down to 12-7. As for Cape Fear, they are on a roll lately: they've won 15 of their last 16 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 18-4 record this season.
Gray's Creek came up short against Cape Fear in their previous meeting back in March, falling 6-1. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Cape Fear's Ethan Plesser, who struck out eight batters over six innings while giving up just one earned run off three hits (and only one walk). Now that Gray's Creek 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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