Tates Creek waltzed into their matchup on Tuesday with four straight wins... but they left with five. They never let the Lexington Christian Eagles onto the board and left with a 4-0 victory. This was payback for Tates Creek, who suffered a 5-3 defeat the last time these two teams met.
Not much got past Carson van Haaren, who gave up just one hit and racked up 12 Ks to keep Lexington Christian off the board. Those 12 strikeouts set a new season-high mark for him.
On the hitting side, Tates Creek's win was truly a team effort as five different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was DJ Carter, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Tates Creek is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight matches, which provided a massive bump to their 6-9 record this season. As for Lexington Christian, their loss was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 2-8.
Tates Creek will have a chance to go back-to-back against Lexington Christian: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
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