Softball Game Preview: Eastside on Home-Turf

By Team Reports Aug 28, 2024, 2:19am

Softball Preview: Eastside Eagles vs. Walnut Grove Warriors



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The Eastside Eagles will play host again on Thursday to welcome the Walnut Grove Warriors, where first pitch is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.

Last Saturday, everything went Eastside's way against Newton as Eastside made off with an 11-3 victory.

Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Walnut Grove). They never let Cedar Shoals onto the board and left with a 15-0 win on Tuesday. The victory was nothing new for the Warriors as they're now sitting on three straight.

Eastside pushed their record up to 6-0 with that win, which was their fifth straight at home dating back to last season. As for Walnut Grove, their victory ended a nine-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 4-8.

Eastside beat Walnut Grove 5-1 in their previous meeting back in October of 2021. Will Eastside repeat their success, or does Walnut Grove have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.

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