Baseball Recap: Pleasant Plains Beats Geneseo for Their Seventh Straight Victory

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Previous Games

04/26/25 vs Geneseo	5-1
04/26/25 vs Eureka	2-1
04/25/25 vs Macomb	5-1
04/24/25 @ Riverton	8-3
04/22/25 @ Athens	3-2
+ 2 more games

Pleasant Plains waltzed into their game on Saturday with six straight wins... but they left with seven. They came out on top against the Geneseo Maple Leafs by a score of 5-1.

Sean Lowder tossed a big game, pitching 6.2 innings while giving up just one earned run off five hits. He has been consistent for a while: he hasn't given up more than one earned run in ten consecutive appearances.

On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Andrew Potthoff, who went 2-for-3 with three RBI, one triple, and one run. Those three RBI gave him a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Trager Shultz, who went 1-for-2 with one stolen base and one run.

Pleasant Plains' win was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 18-3. The home victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 7.4 runs over those games. As for Geneseo, they are on a four-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 8-13.

Coming up, Pleasant Plains will venture away from home to take on St. Joseph-Ogden at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. As for Geneseo, they will square off against Routt Catholic at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. The Maple Leafs' pitchers better be ready for this one: the Rockets have averaged an impressive 7.7 runs per game this season.