Baseball Preview: Sacred Heart-Griffin Cyclones vs. Pleasant Plains Cardinals
Sacred Heart-Griffin is 8-1 against Pleasant Plains since March of 2015, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Monday. The Sacred Heart-Griffin Cyclones will look to defend their home field against the Pleasant Plains Cardinals at 4:30 p.m. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Pleasant Plains is hoping to do on Monday what Springfield couldn't on Thursday: put an end to Sacred Heart-Griffin's winning streak, which now stands at three games. Sacred Heart-Griffin skirted past Springfield 3-1.
Meanwhile, Pleasant Plains sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 2-1 win over Williamsville on Thursday.
Taylor Brewer spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered one run (which was unearned) on two hits.
At the plate, Pleasant Plains' victory was truly a team effort as two different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Charlie Severino, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-3.
Sacred Heart-Griffin's win bumped their record up to 14-6. As for Pleasant Plains, they are on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten matches, which provided a nice bump to their 19-3 record this season.
Sacred Heart-Griffin came up short against Pleasant Plains when the teams last played back in May of 2023, falling 13-10. Thankfully for Sacred Heart-Griffin, Seth Kieninger (who tossed 6.1 innings while giving up just one earned (and five unearned) runs off nine hits) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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