Baseball Preview: Roxana Shells vs. Freeburg Midgets
The Roxana Shells have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Freeburg Midgets at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Roxana is strutting in with some hitting muscle, as they've averaged 6.9 runs per game this season.
While Roxana has not struggled against Civic Memorial recently, they managed to flip the script on Saturday. Roxana beat Civic Memorial by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 3-1.
Dalton Carriker spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered only one earned run on four hits.
On the hitting side, Roxana's win was truly a team effort as four different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Kael Hester, who scored two runs while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, Freeburg didn't have quite enough to beat Southwestern in their second game on Saturday and fell 3-1.
Freeburg saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Lain Krauss, who went 1-for-3 with a home run.
Roxana has been performing well recently as they've won eight of their last ten contests, which provided a nice bump to their 14-8 record this season. As for Freeburg, they have not been sharp recently as the team has lost eight of their last nine matchups, which put a noticeable dent in their 7-11 record this season.
Roxana skirted past Freeburg 5-3 in their previous matchup two weeks ago. Will Roxana repeat their success, or does Freeburg have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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