Softball Game Preview: Christ's Church Academy Eagles vs. Mandarin Mustangs

Eagles

Runs

03/25/25 @ Bolles	7
03/07/25 @ St. Johns Country Day	11
03/06/25 vs Crescent City	11
03/04/25 vs Cedar Creek Christian	18
02/27/25 vs Harvest Community	4
+ 3 more games

The Christ's Church Academy Eagles will challenge the Mandarin Mustangs at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Christ's Church Academy is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 8.9 runs per game this season.

Things were looking good for Christ's Church Academy after they put the first points on the board on Tuesday, but unfortunately for them things went downhill from there. They fell just short of Bolles by a score of 8-7. That's two games in a row now that the Eagles have lost by just one run.

Callie Flanagan was cooking despite her team's loss, scoring two runs and stealing a base while getting on base in all four of her plate appearances. She has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last three times she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Rylee Dynesius, who scored a run while going 2-for-4.

Meanwhile, after soaring to 12 runs the game before, Mandarin was a bit more limited in their contest on Tuesday. They took a 5-1 hit to the loss column at the hands of Atlantic Coast. The loss continues a trend for the Mustangs in their meetings with the Stingrays: they've now lost three in a row.

Mandarin saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Ryleigh Booth, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-3.

Christ's Church Academy's defeat was their fourth straight on the road dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 3-5. Even worse, they were so close so many times: the losses came by an average of only 3.75 runs. As for Mandarin, they now have a losing record of 6-7.