The Everglades Gators will venture away from home to take on the South Broward Bulldogs at 6:30 p.m. on Monday. Everglades will be strutting in after a victory while South Broward will be coming in after a loss.
On Thursday, Everglades needed a bit of extra time to put away Ferguson. They won by a run and slipped past the Falcons 3-2. That's two games straight that the Gators have won by just one run.
Gabriel Billini was excellent, getting on base in all four of his plate appearances with one stolen base and one RBI. That stolen base marked the first that he's stolen this season. The team also got some help courtesy of Matthew Urena, who scored two runs while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, South Broward came up short against NSU University on Thursday, falling 10-3. The Bulldogs haven't had much luck with the Sharks recently, as the team has come up short the last five times they've met.
South Broward saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Christian Font, who scored two runs while going 1-for-3. Those two runs gave Font a new career-high.
The win made it two in a row for Everglades and bumps their season record up to 2-3. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.0 runs over those games. As for South Broward, they now have a losing record of 2-3-1.
The batters for both teams will have to hit smart on Monday as both have some strikeout artists on the roster. Everglades has been retiring batters left and right this season, having averaged 8.6 strikeouts per game. However, it's not like South Broward struggles in that department as they've been averaging 8.8 strikeouts. Considering how easily both teams rack up Ks, the hitters on both teams better bring their A-game into this one.
Everglades came up short against South Broward when the teams last played back in April of 2024, falling 5-2. Can Everglades avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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