The Grace Academy Lions will venture away from home to take on the Combine Academy Global Goats at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Grace Academy is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.2 runs per game this season.
Grace Academy blew Lake Norman Christian out of the water the last time the pair played, but on Thursday Lake Norman Christian got their revenge. Grace Academy fell just short of Lake Norman Christian by a score of 5-3. That's two games in a row now that Grace Academy has lost by exactly two runs.
Grace Academy saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Ryan Hartnett, who went 2-for-4 with one stolen base, one double, and one RBI. Brody Mcnamara was another, scoring a run and stealing a base while going 2-for-4.
Meanwhile, Combine Academy Global came up short against Ambassador Christian School back in March and fell 5-1.
This is the second loss in a row for Grace Academy and nudges their season record down to 10-7. Those defeats can't be blamed on the team's pitching effort, having only surrendered a grand total of 7 runs in those games. As for Combine Academy Global, their loss dropped their record down to 1-1.
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