Baseball Game Preview: Grace Community Cougars vs. Hawkins Hawks

The Grace Community Cougars will venture away from home to challenge the Hawkins Hawks at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Grace Community will be strutting in after a victory while Hawkins will be coming in after a defeat.

It was a proper cat-fight when Grace Community took on Oakwood on Friday. Grace Community's pitchers stepped up to hand Oakwood a 12-0 shutout. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Cougars.

Meanwhile, Hawkins came up short against Overton on Saturday and fell 6-2. The contest marked the Hawks' lowest-scoring game so far this season.

Hawkins saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Hunter Kirklin, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-2. Kirklin also put up a stolen base, which washis first of the season.

Hawkins now has a losing record of 2-3. As for Grace Community, the win got them back to even at 2-2.

Everything went Grace Community's way against Hawkins in their previous matchup back in March of 2017, as Grace Community made off with a 12-2 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for Grace Community since the team won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.