Baseball Preview: Delta Bobcats vs. Risco Tigers
The Delta Bobcats will be playing at home against the Risco Tigers at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Delta will be strutting in after a win while Risco will be coming in after a defeat.
Risco is hoping to do on Wednesday what Gideon couldn't on Tuesday: put an end to Delta's winning streak, which now stands at three games. Delta narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Gideon 9-8. That's two games straight that Delta has won by just one run.
Paxton Hornbuckle made a splash no matter where he played. On the mound, he struck out six batters over three innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit (and only one walk). Hornbuckle was also big at the plate, scoring three runs and stealing a base while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
In other batting news, Bryce Cox was excellent, going 1-for-4 with a home run, two runs, and two RBI. Rylin Huffman was another key contributor, scoring a run while going 2-for-4.
Meanwhile, Risco unfortunately witnessed the end of their four-game winning streak on Friday. They fell 11-8 to Bell City.
Delta has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 5-17 record this season. As for Risco, their loss ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 11-9.
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