After four games on the road, Carrboro is heading back home. They will take on the South Granville Vikings at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Carrboro is strutting in with some hitting muscle, as they've averaged 6.8 runs per game this season.
Things were looking good for Carrboro after they put the first points on the board on Wednesday, but unfortunately for them things went downhill from there. They wound up on the wrong side of a rough 15-5 walloping at the hands of Southern Alamance.
Carrboro saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Aric Stewart, who scored two runs while going 2-for-2.
Meanwhile, South Granville sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 win over Falls Lake on Wednesday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for South Granville.
Carrboro has been struggling recently as they've lost three of their last four games, which put a noticeable dent in their 7-9 record this season. As for South Granville, their victory was their seventh straight at home, which pushed their record up to 12-2.
Carrboro came up short against South Granville in their previous matchup on Tuesday, falling 10-6. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of South Granville's Brendan Chamberlain, who struck out eight batters over 4.2 innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off two hits (and only one walk). Now that Carrboro 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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