The JFK baseball team. (Source:: JFMHS Yearbook staff on Twitter @Camelot_JFK)
The first four games didn’t produce the results the JFK baseball team wanted.
The next four did.
After starting 2023 with two straight losses, and a 1-3 record in their first four games, the Mustangs have won four straight.
And while three of those wins came over teams below them in the GMC Blue Division standings, the resume also includes a 12-2 win over Sayreville, the first place team up in the White Division. That could help as a “quality” win, a win against a team “on the board,” when it comes time to seed the GMC Tournament.
Kennedy is led at the plate by senior Jeremy Ricourt, who’s tearing the cover off the ball with a .586 batting average and 14 runs batted in, while junior RJ Coleman is hitting .455 and has just a 0.47 ERA on the mound in 15 innings pitched spanning three appearances. His only earned run allowed came in a 4-3 loss at JP Stevens on opening day.
But now JFK puts its streak on the line against another team from a higher division, Edison – also out of the GMC White.
Head coach Tim Ballard has not shied away from playing tough opponents over the years. And they’ve even come up with some tournament upsets.
Two seasons ago, as the 16-seed in the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament, they knocked off top-seed Monroe in the opening round. Then, last year, they pulled off a similar upset in the states. As the 15th-seed in Central Jersey Group 4, they knocked out second-seed Brick Memorial on the road.
You can hear Friday’s game on Central Jersey Sports Radio, starting with pregame at 3:45, and first pitch between Edison and JFK at 4:00. Mike Pavlichko will call all the action; click here to listen
Click below to hear JFK head coach Tim Ballard talk about the Mustangs’ season and the matchup with Edison:
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