The Evangelical Christian Sentinels are on the road again on Wednesday to play the Union County Fightin' Tigers at 12:30 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
On Tuesday, everything went Evangelical Christian's way against Orangewood Christian as Evangelical Christian made off with a 9-3 victory. Nine seems to be a good number for Evangelical Christian as the team scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Connor Beckman spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered just two earned (and one unearned) runs on five hits and racked up eight Ks. Those seven innings set a new season-high mark for him.
On the hitting side, Evangelical Christian got a massive performance out of Hogan Gibbs, who scored a run and stole a base while going 3-for-3. Another player making a difference was Anthony Cabrera, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 1-for-2.
Meanwhile, Union County had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 10.5 runs), and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. They put the hurt on the Lions with a sharp 7-1 victory.
RIGGS DAVIS was incredible, scoring two runs while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Kacen Thomassen, who scored a run and stole a base while getting on base in two of his three plate appearances.
Evangelical Christian is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight contests, which provided a nice bump to their 8-4 record this season. As for Union County, the win got them back to even at 6-6.
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