The Boca Raton Bobcats will venture away from home to face off against the North Broward Prep Eagles at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. The squads are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: Boca Raton has struggled recently with four defeats in a row, while North Broward Prep will arrive with three straight victories.
It was a proper cat-fight when Boca Raton duked it out with Chaminade-Madonna on Tuesday. Boca Raton fell 8-3 to Chaminade-Madonna.
Aidan Donnelly was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring a run while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, it was close, but on Thursday North Broward Prep sidestepped Pine Crest for a 2-1 win. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest victory the Eagles have posted against the Panthers since May 1, 2017.
Jack Rostock tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run over 4.2 innings pitched. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in strikeouts (five).
On the hitting side, North Broward Prep saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Anthony Mestre, who scored a run while going 2-for-3. Adrian Rodriguez also deserves some recognition as he snagged his first stolen base of the season.
North Broward Prep's win was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 11-5. Those victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 8.6 runs over those games. As for Boca Raton, their loss dropped their record down to 2-12.
Boca Raton came up short against North Broward Prep in their previous meeting back in April of 2022, falling 9-4. Can Boca Raton avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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