Buckeye Trail and Strasburg-Franklin are an even 4-4 against one another since May of 2019, but likely not for long. The Buckeye Trail Warriors will head out on the road to face off against the Strasburg-Franklin Tigers at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
If Buckeye Trail beats Strasburg-Franklin with four runs on Tuesday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. Buckeye Trail came out on top against Cambridge by a score of 4-1 on Wednesday. The win made it back-to-back victories for Buckeye Trail.
Meanwhile, Strasburg-Franklin had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4.5 runs), and they went ahead and made it three on Monday. They walked away with a 5-2 victory over the Trojans.
Strasburg-Franklin got a great performance from Bradyn Whitman as he tossed 6.1 innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off three hits.
At the plate, Strasburg-Franklin saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Drew Lancaster, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Avery Keffer, who scored two runs while getting on base in two of his three plate appearances.
Buckeye Trail pushed their record up to 7-2 with that win, which was their fourth straight at home. As for Strasburg-Franklin, they now have a winning record of 10-9.
Buckeye Trail came out on top in a nail-biter against Strasburg-Franklin in their previous meeting on Tuesday, sneaking past 4-3. The rematch might be a little tougher for Buckeye Trail since the squad won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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