The Pace Academy Knights will face off against the Forest Park Panthers at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Forest Park is hoping to do what Creekside couldn't on Tuesday: put an end to Pace Academy's winning streak, which now stands at five games. Pace Academy never let Creekside onto the board and left with a 12-0 victory. The Knights might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won nine contests by nine runs or more this season.
Katie Wrigley and Megan Wrigley were a major factor while hitting and pitching. Throwing, Wrigley didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out ten over four innings pitched. Meanwhile, Megan struck out eight batters over three innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. Katie has been nothing but reliable on the mound: she hasn't tossed less than eight strikeouts in four consecutive pitching appearances. At the plate, Wrigley got on base in three of her four plate appearances with a home run, two runs, and two RBI, while Megan scored two runs and stole two bases while going 2-for-4.
In other batting news, Kate Grice was incredible, going 2-for-4 with four RBI, two runs, and a triple. The team also got some help courtesy of Amelit Hall, who went 1-for-3 with two runs and a triple.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Pace Academy didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 18 strikeouts. That's the most strikeouts they've managed all season.
Forest Park never got on the board in their matchup on Thursday, but that sure wasn't the case in their game against Salem on Monday. Everything went their way against the Seminoles as they made off with a 16-6 win.
Pace Academy has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 12-4 record this season. As for Forest Park, their victory ended a four-game drought on the road and puts them at 8-8.
Pace Academy took their win against Forest Park when the teams last played back in August by a conclusive 19-0. Will Pace Academy repeat their success, or does Forest Park have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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