Baseball Game Preview: National Trail Blazers vs. Tri-County North Panthers

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Previous Games

04/12/25 - Away	3-4 L
03/28/24 - Home	12-5 W
05/04/23 - Away	5-6 L
05/04/22 - Home	4-3 W
05/05/21 - Away	6-5 W
+ 5 more games

National Trail and Tri-County North are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2015, but likely not for long. The Blazers will be playing at home against the Panthers at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Having both just faced considerable losses, both teams are looking to turn things around.

Fairborn hit National Trail with a four-run second inning on Friday, which goes a long way in explaining the final result. The Blazers might be feeling deja-vu: they lost 11-1 to the Skyhawks, which was the same score (and result) they got the week prior. The Blazers haven't had much luck with the Skyhawks recently, as the team has come up short the last three times they've met.

National Trail saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Grady Ott, who went 1-for-2 with one double.

The home team had won the previous five meetings between Tri-County North and Valley View, and Valley View kept the tradition alive. The Panthers lost 15-5 to the Spartans on Thursday. The Panthers' defeat signaled the end of their three-game winning streak.

Tri-County North's loss dropped their record down to 14-7. As for National Trail, their defeat dropped their record down to 7-15.