Baseball Preview: Murphysboro Red Devils vs. Zeigler-Royalton Tornadoes
The Murphysboro Red Devils are on the road again on Thursday to play the Zeigler-Royalton Tornadoes at 4:30 p.m. Murphysboro is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.2 runs per game this season.
Murphysboro will head into Saturday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Friday (they won by eight) but on Saturday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Chester 4-2.
The team relied heavily on Trey Gillespie, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 2-for-3. William Bess was another key contributor, scoring a run and stealing two bases while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
Meanwhile, it was a hard-fought matchup, but Zeigler-Royalton had to settle for a 10-9 defeat against Farina South Central on Monday.
Murphysboro has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 15-15-1 record this season. As for Zeigler-Royalton, their loss dropped their record down to 25-6.
Everything went Murphysboro's way against Zeigler-Royalton in their previous meeting back in May of 2016 as Murphysboro made off with a 9-1 win. Does Murphysboro have another victory up their sleeve, or will Zeigler-Royalton turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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