Baseball Preview: Newton Railroaders vs. Hesston Swathers
The Newton Railroaders will head out on the road to square off against the Hesston Swathers at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
Newton will head into Friday's game out to bounce back: they came back down to earth on Friday after soaring to a seven-run match in their last game. They fell just short of Andover by a score of 7-5.
Meanwhile, Hesston didn't have quite enough to beat Pratt on Friday and fell 3-1. Hesston has not had much luck with Pratt recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Hesston saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Levi Flaming, who scored a run while getting on base in all three of his plate appearances.
Even though they lost, Hesston was hitting in the alleys and finished the game with three doubles. This was only their first loss (out of five games) when they post three or more doubles.
Newton dropped their record down to 6-8 with that loss, which was their third straight at home. As for Hesston, their defeat dropped their record down to 13-4.
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