Baseball Game Preview: Sanger Indians vs. Celina Bobcats

The Sanger Indians will take on the Celina Bobcats at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Sanger is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.3 runs per game this season.

Sanger is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 15 runs on Friday, they were much more limited against Krum on Tuesday. They took a 6-1 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Bobcats. The defeat continues a trend for the Indians in their meetings with the Bobcats: they've now lost three in a row.

Sanger saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Levi Hendricks, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.

Meanwhile, Celina beat Gainesville 7-2 last Tuesday. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Bobcats.

Celina pushed their record up to 4-1 with the victory, which was their eighth straight on the road dating back to last season. Those victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 6.3 runs over those games. As for Sanger, their loss dropped their record down to 8-6.

Sanger suffered a grim 11-2 defeat to Celina in their previous meeting back in April of 2022. Will Sanger have more luck at home instead of on the road? Come back here after the game to get an analysis of the match and other baseball content.