Baseball Preview: Grant Park Dragons vs. Momence Momence Athletics
The Grant Park Dragons will head out on the road to challenge the Momence Momence Athletics at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. Grant Park is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.3 runs per game this season.
On Thursday, Grant Park sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with an 8-7 win over Gardner-South Wilmington. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Grant Park.
Aiden Overbeek was excellent, scoring a run while going 3-for-4. Brayden Heldt was another key contributor, scoring two runs while going 2-for-4.
Meanwhile, Momence was not able to break out of their rough patch on Thursday as the team picked up their fourth straight loss. They fell 4-0 to St. Anne.
Momence saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Jevon Sneed, who went 1-for-1 with a double.
Grant Park's victory ended a five-game drought at home and bumped them up to 7-14. As for Momence, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-14.
Grant Park came up short against Momence when the teams last played back in April, falling 8-4. Can Grant Park avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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