Baseball Game Preview: Gautier Gators vs. Laurel Golden Tornadoes

Gautier has gone a perfect 7-0 against Laurel recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Gautier Gators will welcome the Laurel Golden Tornadoes at 6:45 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Gautier has three straight victories, Laurel has four straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.

If Gautier beats Laurel with 18 runs on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Gautier beat Laurel on Thursday by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 18-2.

The win got Gautier back to even at 7-7. As for Laurel, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-5.