Baseball Recap: Rapides Comes Up Short

If Rapides was feeling good fresh off their 16-3 takedown of Hornbeck last Saturday, their most recent game may have dampened their spirits a bit. The Rapides Mustangs fell 7-2 to the Avoyelles Charter Vikings on Monday. The Mustangs were not able to make up for their loss to the Vikings from their previous meeting back in May of 2024.

Rapides now has a losing record of 4-5. As for Avoyelles Charter, they pushed their record up to 5-3 with the win, which was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season.

While Rapides had to take the loss, they won't have to wait long to give it another shot: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday.