Baseball Game Preview: Karns Beavers vs. Powell Panthers

By Team Reports Apr 7, 2024, 2:44am

Baseball Preview: Karns Beavers vs. Powell Panthers

Karns is 0-10 against Powell since April of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Monday. The Karns Beavers will head out on the road to square off against the Powell Panthers at 6:00 p.m. Karns will be hoping to continue their four-game streak of scoring more runs each game than the last.

On Saturday, while Karns put up plenty of runs, the same can't be said for Fulton. Everything went Karns' way against Fulton as Karns made off with a 13-0 win.

Meanwhile, Powell entered their tilt with Heritage with ten consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with 11. They had just enough and edged the Mountaineers out 5-3. That's two games straight that Powell has won by exactly two runs.

Cameron Cole tossed a big game, pitching six innings while giving up just two earned (and one unearned) runs off five hits.

On the hitting side, Powell's victory was truly a team effort as six different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Lucas Mayes, who scored a run while going 2-for-4.

Karns' win ended a three-game drought on the road and puts them at 3-9. As for Powell, they pushed their record up to 13-1 with that victory, which was their fourth straight on the road.

Karns came up short against Powell in their previous meeting back in March of 2023, falling 3-0. Can Karns avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.

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