Baseball Game Preview: Belle Plaine on Home-Turf

By Team Reports May 14, 2024, 5:01am

Baseball Preview: Belle Plaine Tigers vs. Glencoe-Silver Lake Panthers

The Belle Plaine Tigers will be playing at home against the Glencoe-Silver Lake Panthers at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Belle Plaine has seven straight wins, Glencoe-Silver Lake has five straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.

Belle Plaine will head into Thursday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Thursday (they won by eight) but on Thursday they proved they can win the close ones too. They skirted past Mayer Lutheran 3-1.

Meanwhile, Glencoe-Silver Lake fell victim to Central and their airtight pitching crew on Friday. They took a 3-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Raiders.

Belle Plaine has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won ten of their last 11 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 11-5 record this season. As for Glencoe-Silver Lake, their defeat dropped their record down to 11-6.

Belle Plaine beat Glencoe-Silver Lake 5-1 when the teams last played back in May of 2023. Does Belle Plaine have another victory up their sleeve, or will Glencoe-Silver Lake turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.

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