The Blazer Baseball team traveled to Seffner Christian on Tuesday to take on the Crusaders. The first inning started out with a
Justin Brock walk, bringing up hot hitting
Evan Poznanski. Poznanski would lace a double past the center fielder, scoring Brock to take the 1-0 lead. But the Blazers would give up one in the bottom of the first and then couldn't get out of the bottom of the second as
Rowan Baum and
Bronson Hoke struggled with their control on the mound, hitting four batters, walking three, and giving up just three hits as the Crusaders put up 8 runs. The Blazers still had plenty of game left to play, but couldn't mount a comeback after the deflating inning and wound up losing 11-1 in five innings. The lose marks three in a row for the Blazers that seemingly came through one bad inning. Poznanski led the team, going 2-3 in the game and bringing in the lone run for the Blazers. Hoke figured things out on the mound after a rocky start midway through the second inning and ended up going two and a third innings, striking out four.
The Blazers will look to fix their control issues as they will host Southwest Florida Christian on Friday evening for senior night. The Blazers played the Kings at the beginning of March, with a similar outcome as they gave away eight runs in the second inning with two outs, walking six batters in that inning and giving up just three hits.