Baseball Recap: Mountainburg Dragons vs. Cedarville Pirates
Mountainburg stacked a seventh blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Tuesday. Everything went their way against the Cedarville Pirates as the Mountainburg Dragons made off with an 18-8 win. That's more bragging rights for Mountainburg, who also won the pair's last head-to-head.
Caedmon Cowett and John Shepherd made a big impact while hitting and pitching. Throwing, Cowett struck out eight batters over five innings while giving up four earned (and four unearned) runs off five hits. Meanwhile, Shepherd pitched an inning while giving up no earned runs off one hit. Cowett has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts in five consecutive pitching appearances. At bat, Cowett scored three runs and stole five bases while getting on base in four of his five plate appearances, while Shepherd scored two runs and stole two bases.
In other batting news, Levi Cowett and Levi Pense did most of the damage at the plate: Cowett scored two runs and stole a base while going 3-for-4, while Pense scored two runs and stole two bases while getting on base in four of his five plate appearances. Pense has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last seven times he's played. Another player making a difference was Ryan Allen, who scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in three of his five plate appearances.
Mountainburg has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 9-3 record this season. As for Cedarville, they are on an 11-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 1-11.
Mountainburg is on the road again on Thursday to play Mansfield at 4:30 p.m. Mansfield will roll in looking for their eighth straight victory, something Mountainburg surely won't give up without a fight. Cedarville does not have any more games scheduled as of now.
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