Baseball Game Preview: Millard West Wildcats vs. Papillion-LaVista Monarchs

Millard West has gone 9-1 against Papillion-LaVista recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Monday. The Wildcats will challenge the Monarchs at 10:00 a.m. Neither Millard West nor Papillion-LaVista posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.

Millard West heads in on the heels of a playoff matchup on Friday. They fell just short of Millard South by a score of 2-1. The Wildcats have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.

Brady Ferguson

Batters Struck Out

05/16/25 vs Millard South	11
05/10/25 vs Elkhorn South	7
05/01/25 @ Millard North	13
04/25/25 @ Papillion-LaVista	8
04/17/25 vs Omaha Westside	5
+ 3 more games

Brady Ferguson was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he struck out 11 batters over six innings while giving up just two earned runs off three hits (and only one walk). He has been nothing but reliable: he hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts in eight consecutive appearances.

On the hitting side, Millard West saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Sam Kidd, who went 2-for-3 with one RBI.

Meanwhile, Papillion-LaVista fell victim to Lincoln East and their airtight pitching crew on Friday. They lost 6-0 to the Spartans. The Monarchs haven't had much luck with the Spartans recently, as the team has come up short the last six times they've met.

Brett Hoelscher was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he tossed 4.1 innings while giving up three earned (and three unearned) runs off five hits.

Millard West's record now sits at 21-13. As for Papillion-LaVista, their record is now 20-12.

Everything went Millard West's way against Papillion-LaVista in their previous meeting two weeks ago, as Millard West made off with an 8-1 victory. Will the Wildcats repeat their success, or do the Monarchs have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.