Baseball Game Preview: Windsor Owls vs. Valley Park Hawks

The Windsor Owls are taking a road trip to challenge the Valley Park Hawks at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. The squads are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: Windsor has struggled recently with three defeats in a row, while Valley Park will arrive with seven straight victories.

Windsor came into this matchup off a tough nine-run loss on Monday. This time they kept things ultra-competitive, but unfortunately the final result was the same. They fell just short of Festus by a score of 5-3 on Tuesday.

Windsor saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Keegan Murphy, who went 1-for-3 with one triple, one run, and one RBI. That triple marked the first that Murphy hit this season.

Meanwhile, Valley Park earned a 4-1 win over St. Francis Borgia on Wednesday.

Valley Park's victory was their sixth straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 10-2. The team dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 10.3 runs. As for Windsor, their defeat dropped their record down to 5-8.