Baseball Recap: Muscatine Find Success

After losing to Prairie the last time they met, Muscatine decided to demonstrate that turnabout is fair play. The Muskies sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 5-3 victory over the Hawks on Thursday.

Muscatine is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups. That's provided a nice bump to their 10-5-1 record this season. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.2 runs on average over those games. Having lost for the first time this season, Prairie fell to 10-1.

Muscatine has already played their next game (against Oskaloosa), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. As for Prairie, they also didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next contest, a 13-1 victory against Washington on the 13th.