Baseball Game Preview: Starkville Yellowjackets vs. Madison Central Jaguars

Yellowjackets

Runs

03/18/25 @ Madison Central	2
03/14/25 vs Amory	14
03/13/25 @ Houston	10
03/13/25 vs Amory	14
03/11/25 vs Jackson Prep	5
+ 13 more games

The Starkville Yellowjackets will take on the Madison Central Jaguars at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Starkville is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.5 runs per game this season.

Starkville is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Mississippi's top teams: Madison Central, who was ranked eighth at the time (Starkville was ranked 23rd). Starkville took a 5-2 hit to the loss column at the hands of Madison Central on Tuesday. The Yellowjackets were red-hot at the plate heading into the contest (they scored no less than ten runs in the three matches prior), but the Jaguars' pitcher proved too tough.

Starkville saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Torian Knox, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.

Madison Central is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six games. That's provided a nice bump to their 6-2 record this season. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.7 runs on average over those games. Starkville moved to 12-6 with that defeat, which also ended their three-game winning streak.