Baseball Game Preview: Haines City Hornets vs. South Lake Eagles

The Haines City Hornets will venture away from home to take on the South Lake Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Haines City has given up an average of 11.2 runs per game this season, so hopefully the team got some pitching drills in this week.

Haines City is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 14 runs two weeks ago, they were much more limited against Celebration on Wednesday. They came up short against the Storm, falling 12-2.

Haines City saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Juan Valbuena-Laballos, who went 1-for-3 with one RBI. That RBI was Valbuena-Laballos' first of the season.

Meanwhile, South Lake might've scored the first runs on Friday, but it was Eustis who claimed the real prize. South Lake fell just short of Eustis by a score of 2-1. The Eagles have struggled against the Panthers recently, as the game was their fourth consecutive lost matchup.

J Brewer was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he struck out seven batters over 6.1 innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off three hits.

South Lake's loss dropped their record down to 5-3. As for Haines City, their defeat was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 1-4.