Baseball Game Preview: Poland Seminary Bulldogs vs. Struthers Wildcats

Poland Seminary has gone a perfect 10-0 against Struthers recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Monday. The Bulldogs will look to take advantage of their home field for the first time this season as they take on the Wildcats at 5:00 p.m. Poland Seminary will be strutting in after a victory while Struthers will be coming in after a defeat.

Poland Seminary's pitching crew heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. They put the hurt on Columbiana with a sharp 14-0 win. The high-flying hitting performance was a huge turnaround for the Bulldogs considering their two-run performance the match before.

Jacob Hayes made a big impact no matter where he played. He didn't allow a single earned run and allowed only one hit while striking out ten over five innings pitched. Those ten strikeouts gave him a new career-high. He was also big at the plate, scoring three runs and stealing a base while getting on base in three of his five plate appearances.

Joe Zuccaro

Runs Batted In (Career)

04/03/25 @ Columbiana	2
05/06/24 vs Canfield	1
04/30/24 vs Hubbard	1
04/24/24 vs South Range	1

In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Joe Zuccaro, who scored a run while going 2-for-2. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in RBI (two). Another player making a difference was Carmine Tukalo, who scored two runs and stole two bases while going 1-for-3.

Poland Seminary always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .525. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Columbiana only posted an OBP of .176.

Meanwhile, after some red-hot attacks at the plate in their last three games, Struthers finally came back down to earth on Friday. They came up short against Lakeview, falling 9-2.

Struthers saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Anthony Pastella, who went 3-for-4 with one RBI.

Poland Seminary has started the season off flawlessly and has a 2-0 record to show for it. The victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they've averaged 8.0 runs this season. As for Struthers, their loss dropped their record down to 2-2.

Poland Seminary took their win against Struthers when the teams last played back in April of 2024 by a conclusive 10-3 score. Will the Bulldogs repeat their success, or do the Wildcats have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.