Baseball Game Preview: Kingwood Park Panthers vs. Grapevine Mustangs

The Kingwood Park Panthers will square off against the Grapevine Mustangs at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. Kingwood Park's pitching crew has only allowed three runs per game this season, so Grapevine's hitters will have their work cut out for them.

Kingwood Park is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Saturday. They never let Liberty Hill get on the board and left with a 6-0 win. The result was nothing new for Kingwood Park, who have now won 14 games by six runs or more so far this season.

On Friday fans watched as two of the best teams in the nation hit the field. Grapevine won by a run and slipped past Lovejoy 6-5. The victory was familiar territory for the Mustangs, who have now won eight contests in a row.

Kingwood Park is on a roll lately: they've won 27 of their last 31 matches. That's provided a nice bump to their 34-9-1 record this season. Those wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.9 runs on average over those games. As for Grapevine, they pushed their record up to 35-3 with the victory, which was their 15th straight at home dating back to last season.