On Thursday, Taft School faced Westminster School in a battle between two of the state's top teams. The Taft School Big Red had just enough and edged the Westminster School Martlets out 9-8. Nine seems to be a good number for Taft School as the team scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
For Westminster School's part, Alexander Mihailovich made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and scored two runs and stole a base while going 4-for-5. The team also got some help courtesy of Shaw Turton, who scored a run while going 3-for-4.
Taft School is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six games, which provided a nice bump to their 11-5 record this season. As for Westminster School, their defeat ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 14-6.
Taft School will have a chance to go back-to-back against Westminster School: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.
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