The Seaforth Hawks will venture away from home to challenge the North Moore Mustangs at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Seaforth has seven straight wins, North Moore has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
If Seaforth beats North Moore with 12 runs on Wednesday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. Everything went the Hawks' way against Bartlett Yancey on Tuesday as they made off with a 12-2 victory. Considering the Hawks have won eight matchups by more than five runs this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.
Meanwhile, North Moore came up short against Chatham Central on Tuesday, falling 12-5. That's two games in a row now that the Mustangs have lost by exactly seven runs.
John Carre was cooking despite his team's loss, going 2-for-3 with one run and one RBI. Beau Lambert was another key player, going 2-for-4 with one run and one RBI.
Seaforth pushed their record up to 13-7 with the win, which was their seventh straight at home. The home victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.3 runs on average over those games. As for North Moore, they now have a losing record of 7-8.
Everything went Seaforth's way against North Moore in their previous meeting last Saturday, as Seaforth made off with an 11-1 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for the Hawks since the squad won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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