IMG Academy Gray is 1-6 against Canterbury since April of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Thursday. The IMG Academy Gray Ascenders will be playing in front of their home fans against the Canterbury Cougars at 7:00 p.m. The pair have allowed few runs on average, (IMG Academy Gray: 3.8, Canterbury: 3.9) so any runs scored will be well earned.
IMG Academy Gray came tearing into Tuesday's matchup with four straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.3 runs) and they left with even more momentum. They won by a run and slipped past the Spartans 5-4. That's two games straight that IMG Academy Gray has won by just one run.
Kazuma Uehara and JD Wolff did most of the damage at the plate: Uehara scored a run and stole a base while going 3-for-3, while Wolff scored a run while going 2-for-3. Another player making a difference was James Carter, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a double.
Meanwhile, Canterbury made easy work of Mariner on Tuesday and carried off a 12-2 win. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Canterbury.
IMG Academy Gray is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 9-4 record this season. As for Canterbury, they pushed their record up to 8-3 with that victory, which was their third straight at home.
IMG Academy Gray couldn't quite finish off Canterbury in their previous meeting back in April of 2023 and fell 2-0. Thankfully for IMG Academy Gray, Austin Schrowe (who didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out 12 over 6.2 innings pitched) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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