Softball Game Preview: Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Thunder vs. Swanville Bulldogs

The Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Thunder will venture away from home to take on the Swanville Bulldogs at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. Long Prairie-Grey Eagle has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the match with five straight defeats, while Swanville will come in with 11 straight victories.

Long Prairie-Grey Eagle lost 11-1 to Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Tuesday. That's two games in a row now that the Thunder have lost by exactly ten runs.

Meanwhile, Swanville hadn't done well against Royalton recently (they were 0-4 in their previous four matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Tuesday. The Bulldogs put the hurt on the Royals with a sharp 14-7 win. The result was nothing new for the Bulldogs, who have now won eight games by seven runs or more so far this season.

Swanville pushed their record up to 11-0 with the victory, which was their sixth straight on the road. The road wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.3 runs on average over those games. As for Long Prairie-Grey Eagle, their loss dropped their record down to 2-7.

Long Prairie-Grey Eagle suffered a grim 10-0 defeat to Swanville when the teams last played back in April. Can the Thunder avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.