Baseball Game Preview: Maple Hill Wildcats vs. Coxsackie-Athens Riverhawks

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Previous Games

04/29/24 - Away	2-12 L
05/04/23 - Home	3-7 L
05/09/22 - Home	8-6 W
04/11/22 - Away	12-1 W
05/31/21 - Away	4-5 L
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Maple Hill and Coxsackie-Athens are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2017, but likely not for long. The Wildcats will look to take advantage of their home field for the first time this season as they take on the Riverhawks at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.

The home team had won the previous four meetings between Maple Hill and Chatham, and Chatham kept the tradition alive. The Wildcats fell 6-3 to the Panthers on Wednesday. The Wildcats have struggled against the Panthers recently, as the game was their eighth consecutive lost meeting.

Meanwhile, after soaring to 16 runs the game before, Coxsackie-Athens was a bit more limited in their match on Thursday. They fell just short of Chatham by a score of 4-2. The loss was the Riverhawks' first of the season.

Coxsackie-Athens saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Jackson Purdy, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 1-for-3.

Maple Hill now has a losing record of 1-2. As for Coxsackie-Athens, their loss was their first of the season and makes their record 3-1.

Maple Hill suffered a grim 12-2 defeat to Coxsackie-Athens when the teams last played back in April of 2024. Will the Wildcats have more luck at home instead of on the road? Come back here after the game to get an analysis of the match and other baseball content.