The Clover Garden School Grizzlies will head out on the road to take on the Ascend Leadership Aviators at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Clover Garden School has four straight victories, Ascend Leadership has 13 straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
If Clover Garden School beats Ascend Leadership with 13 runs on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Clover Garden School sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 13-12 win over Chatham Charter on Wednesday. Clover Garden School's victory was all the more impressive since Chatham Charter was averaging only 3.92 runs allowed on the season.
The team relied heavily on Sydnee Summers, who scored four runs while getting on base in three of her five plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of MacKenzie Shepherd, who scored three runs while going 2-for-4.
Ascend Leadership played against Chatham Charter and lost via forfeit.
Clover Garden School pushed their record up to 8-4 with that win, which was their third straight at home. As for Ascend Leadership, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-10.
Everything went Clover Garden School's way against Ascend Leadership in their previous meeting back in March as Clover Garden School made off with a 15-0 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for Clover Garden School since the squad won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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