Softball Preview: Piedmont Bulldogs vs. Southside Panthers
The Piedmont Bulldogs will be playing in front of their home fans against the Southside Panthers at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. Both teams come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Piedmont had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.5 runs), and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They walked away with a 5-2 win over the Wildcats.
Meanwhile, it was close, but on Thursday Southside sidestepped Sardis for a 3-2 victory.
Southside saw seven different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Peyton Burrell, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.
Piedmont pushed their record up to 11-1 with that win, which was their sixth straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Southside, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 12 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 19-6-1 record this season.
Piedmont beat Southside 3-0 when the teams last played back in April of 2023. Will Piedmont repeat their success, or does Southside have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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