Lake Wales is on a four-game streak of home wins, while McKeel Academy is on a four-game streak of away wins: one of those streaks is about to end. The Lake Wales Highlanders will take on the McKeel Academy Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams have allowed few runs on average, (Lake Wales: 3.6, McKeel Academy: 2.2) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Lake Wales will bounce into Thursday's game after beating Lakeland, who they hadn't topped in nine consecutive meetings. Lake Wales came out on top against Lakeland by a score of 4-1 on Tuesday. That's two games straight that Lake Wales has won by exactly three runs.
Lake Wales got a great performance from GAGE CHANDLEY as he struck out nine batters over 5.2 innings while giving up just one earned run off five hits.
At the plate, Lake Wales' win was truly a team effort as five different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was DYLAN SIMMONS, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, it was a hard-fought matchup, but McKeel Academy had to settle for a 5-3 loss against Seffner Christian on Tuesday.
McKeel Academy also got a good showing from Austin Peddycoart, who pitched three innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off three hits.
On the hitting side, KJ Scobey made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and scored a run and stole two bases while going 1-for-2.
Lake Wales is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a massive bump to their 12-11 record this season. As for McKeel Academy, their defeat dropped their record down to 19-4.
Lake Wales came up short against McKeel Academy in their previous matchup back in February, falling 4-0. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of McKeel Academy's Braxten Plemons, who didn't allow a single earned run over five innings pitched. Now that Lake Wales knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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