Baseball Game Preview: North Medford Plays at Home

By Team Reports May 8, 2024, 2:33am

Baseball Preview: North Medford Black Tornado vs. Roseburg Indians

North Medford and Roseburg are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2018, but likely not for long. The North Medford Black Tornado will look to defend their home field on Saturday against the Roseburg Indians at 12:00 p.m. The last three games North Medford has played have been within two runs, so don't be surprised if it's a close one.

North Medford's hitters might be in the hot seat on Saturday considering what happened against South Medford on Tuesday. They fell just short of the Panthers by a score of 2-0. The shutout was out of character for North Medford seeing as the last time the team failed to score was back in April.

Meanwhile, Roseburg had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2.5 runs), and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past the Wolverines 4-2.

North Medford's loss dropped their record down to 12-7. As for Roseburg, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matches, which provided a nice bump to their 15-7 record this season.

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