Baseball Game Preview: Somerset Briar Jumpers vs. Elizabethtown Panthers

The Somerset Briar Jumpers will head out on the road to face off against the Elizabethtown Panthers at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday.

For some reason, the away team has come away with the win the last five times Somerset and Boyle County have met, but the home crowd finally got their W on Friday. The Briar Jumpers lost 12-2 to the Rebels. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest loss the Briar Jumpers have suffered against the Rebels since March 27, 2018.

Somerset saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Caynan Sizemore, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI.

Elizabethtown let Central Hardin stack four runs on them in the third inning on Friday but luckily Elizabethtown prevailed anyway. The Panthers walked away with an 8-4 win over the Bruins. While the Panthers didn't have the best season last year (they finished 13-17), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past.

Elizabethtown has been performing well recently as they've won nine of their last 11 contests. That's provided a nice bump to their 11-5 record this season. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.7 runs on average over those games. As for Somerset, their defeat dropped their record down to 7-11.

Somerset couldn't quite get it done against Elizabethtown in their previous meeting back in April of 2016 as they fell 4-0. Can the Briar Jumpers avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.