Preview: Ponca City Wildcats vs. Bixby Spartans
Ponca City is 0-7 against Bixby since March of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Monday. The Ponca City Wildcats will be staying on the road to face off against the Bixby Spartans at 5:30 p.m.
Saturday just wasn't the day for Ponca City's offense. They fell just short of Heritage Hall by a score of 2-0 on Saturday.
Lance Arbona was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he didn't allow a single earned run over 5.1 innings pitched.
On the hitting side, Ponca City saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was J.R. Goddard, who went 1-for-2 with a stolen base.
Meanwhile, Bixby had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 9 runs), and they went ahead and made it seven on Saturday. They walked away with a 6-1 victory over the Tigers. That's two games straight that Bixby has won by exactly five runs.
Ponca City's defeat dropped their record down to 1-7. As for Bixby, their win was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 9-2.
Ponca City couldn't quite finish off Bixby in their previous meeting back in May of 2023 and fell 2-0. Thankfully for Ponca City, Grayson Connell (who didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out nine over six innings pitched) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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