Baseball Game Preview: Blue Island Eisenhower Cardinals vs. Shepard Astros

Cardinals

Runs

04/14/25 vs Shepard	5
04/12/25 vs Cristo Rey Jesuit	23
04/10/25 @ Hillcrest	13
04/08/25 vs Reavis	3
04/07/25 @ Reavis	3
+ 7 more games

For the second straight game, Blue Island Eisenhower will face off against Shepard. The Cardinals will head out on the road to challenge the Astros at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Blue Island Eisenhower is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 8.1 runs per game this season.

Blue Island Eisenhower will bounce into Tuesday's contest after beating Shepard, who they had gone 0-8-1 against in their nine prior meetings. The Cardinals had just enough and edged out the Astros 5-3. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest win the Cardinals have posted since March 22nd.

Jo'Mari Dixon was excellent, going 1-for-3 with one home run and three RBI. Those three RBI gave him a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Favian Barcena, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.

Shepard's defeat was their first in the conference, dropping their conference record down to 2-1-1 and their overall record down to 5-4-2. As for Blue Island Eisenhower, the victory was the third in a row for them, bringing their record up to 6-6.