Baseball Preview: Wallenpaupack Area Buckhorns vs. Honesdale Hornets
Wallenpaupack Area is 8-2 against Honesdale since April of 2016, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Monday. The Wallenpaupack Area Buckhorns are on the road again to play the Honesdale Hornets at 2:00 p.m.
On Thursday, it was a hard-fought contest, but Wallenpaupack Area had to settle for a 4-3 defeat against Wyoming Valley West.
Wallenpaupack Area saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Mark Nilsen, who went 1-for-4 with a stolen base.
Even though they lost, Wallenpaupack Area didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 13 strikeouts. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Wyoming Valley West only tossed seven.
Meanwhile, Honesdale sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 4-3 victory over Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday. That's two games straight that Honesdale has won by just one run.
Wallenpaupack Area now has a losing record at 1-2. As for Honesdale, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 2-0.
Wallenpaupack Area came up short against Honesdale in their previous matchup back in April of 2023, falling 9-6. Can Wallenpaupack Area avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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