The Southern Durham Spartans will look to defend their home field on Monday against the Louisburg Warriors at 6:00 p.m. Southern Durham will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each contest than the last.
Southern Durham scored the most runs they've had all season to find success on Tuesday. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 13-12 win over NCSSM: Durham. Both teams can probably skip cardio this week after making that many trips around the bases.
Southern Durham got a massive performance out of Carlos Joseph, who went 2-for-4 with two stolen bases, a triple, and two RBI. Another player making a difference was Ethan Hargrove, who scored two runs and stole two bases while getting on base in four of his five plate appearances.
Meanwhile, it was a hard-fought game, but Louisburg had to settle for a 4-3 defeat against Carrboro on Friday. Louisburg has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
The victory got Southern Durham back to even at 5-5. As for Louisburg, their loss dropped their record down to 6-5.
Southern Durham suffered a grim 15-5 defeat to Louisburg in their previous meeting back in March. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Louisburg's Jodus Leonard, who struck out ten batters over four innings while giving up just two earned runs off four hits. Now that Southern Durham knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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