Freedom is on a ten-game streak of home losses dating back to last season, and Gateway a ten-game streak of away losses also dating back to last season. However, someone's due for a change in luck on Friday. The Freedom Patriots will look to defend their home field against the Gateway Panthers at 6:00 p.m.
On Thursday, Freedom didn't have quite enough to beat Legacy Charter and fell 3-2.
Freedom saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Kaylin Braasch, who went 1-for-4 with two RBI and one double. Those two RBI gave Braasch a new career-high. Ja'Lynn Merriex also deserves some recognition as she snagged her first stolen base of the season.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Gateway). Everything went their way against Liberty on March 11th as Gateway made off with a 24-8 win.
Gateway's victory bumped their record up to 2-4. As for Freedom, their loss dropped their record down to 1-12.
Freedom took their win against Gateway in their previous matchup back in February of 2018 by a conclusive 18-3. Does Freedom have another victory up their sleeve, or will Gateway turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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