Baseball Recap: Maize Eagles vs. Blue Springs Wildcats
Maize is ranked highly in their home state and on Friday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Blue Springs. The Maize Eagles came out on top against the Blue Springs Wildcats by a score of 7-3. Winning may never get old, but Maize sure is getting used to it with their sixth in a row.
Gunner Hewitt was excellent, scoring two runs and stealing a base while getting on base in two of his four plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Drake Blasi, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.
Maize has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 14-3 record this season. As for Blue Springs, their defeat dropped their record down to 12-7.
Maize didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next match, a 4-3 win vs. Washburn Rural on the 19th. As for Blue Springs, they will be playing at home against Fort Osage at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Blue Springs' pitching crew has only allowed 3.3 runs per game this season, so Fort Osage's hitters will have their work cut out for them.
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