Baseball Preview: Marissa Meteors vs. Metro-East Lutheran Knights
The Marissa Meteors will head out on the road to challenge the Metro-East Lutheran Knights at 4:30 p.m. on Monday.
Last Wednesday, it was a hard-fought game, but Marissa had to settle for a 5-4 defeat against Wesclin. Marissa has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Meanwhile, everything went Metro-East Lutheran's way against Lutheran North on Saturday as Metro-East Lutheran made off with a 19-2 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for Metro-East Lutheran.
Logan Johnson and Jacob Kober did most of the damage at the plate: Johnson scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3, while Kober scored three runs and stole a base while going 2-for-2. Another player making a difference was Lucas Abbott, who scored three runs while getting on base in all three of his plate appearances.
Marissa's loss dropped their record down to 0-2. As for Metro-East Lutheran, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 7-3 record this season.
Marissa might still be hurting after the 10-1 defeat they got from Metro-East Lutheran when the teams last played back in May of 2016. Thankfully for Marissa, Paul Kubicek (who struck out ten batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned run off four hits (and only one walk)) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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