Softball Preview: Evansville Central Bears vs. Evansville Mater Dei Wildcats
Evansville Central is 0-10 against Evansville Mater Dei since April of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Monday. The Evansville Central Bears will be playing in front of their home fans against the Evansville Mater Dei Wildcats at 5:00 p.m. Evansville Central will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each matchup than the last.
Evansville Central headed into their last contest having not scored more than two runs for three straight, but Evansville Harrison let them put that streak behind them. Evansville Central's pitcher stepped up to hand Evansville Harrison a 15-0 shutout on Saturday. With that victory, Evansville Central brought their scoring average up to 6.5 runs per game.
Katelyn Peterson tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run over five innings pitched.
At the plate, Evansville Central got a massive performance out of Hailee Vallee, who scored three runs while going 3-for-3. Another player making a difference was Kaylee Magro, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, Saturday just wasn't the day for Evansville Mater Dei's offense. They lost 6-0 to Cascade on Saturday. Evansville Mater Dei just can't catch a break and has now endured three defeats in a row.
Evansville Central's win bumped their record up to 5-15. As for Evansville Mater Dei, their loss dropped their record down to 11-10.
Evansville Central suffered a grim 14-3 defeat to Evansville Mater Dei when the teams last played back in April. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Evansville Mater Dei's Alessia Baumann, who struck out seven batters over 4.2 innings while giving up just two earned runs off one hit (and only one walk). Now that Evansville Central knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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