It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact King's Academy can now relate to. They fell just short of the Boyd-Buchanan Buccaneers by a score of 3-2 on Friday. Having soared to a lofty ten runs in the game before, King's Academy couldn't push the score so high this time.
For Boyd-Buchanan's part, Read Butler spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered only one earned (and one unearned) run on six hits.
At the plate, Boyd-Buchanan's win was truly a team effort as seven different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Xavier Embry, who went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.
King's Academy dropped their record down to 11-9 with that defeat, which was their third straight on the road. As for Boyd-Buchanan, their victory bumped their record up to 28-4.
The teams didn't have to wait long for a rematch: they beat King's Academy by a score of 8-0 later that day.
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