Baseball Game Preview: Starpoint Plays at Home

By Team Reports Apr 28, 2024, 2:31am

Baseball Preview: Starpoint Spartans vs. Sweet Home Panthers

Starpoint and Sweet Home are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2016, but likely not for long. The Starpoint Spartans will take on the Sweet Home Panthers at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. Starpoint will come in still looking for their first win of the season.

Last Friday, it was a hard-fought contest, but Starpoint had to settle for a 9-8 defeat against Sweet Home. That's two games in a row now that Starpoint has lost by just one run.

For Sweet Home's part, Rocco Panepinto made a big impact no matter where he played. On the mound, he tossed five innings while giving up three earned runs off six hits. Panepinto was also stellar in the batter's box, going 4-for-6 with three RBI, two runs, and a triple.

In other batting news, Tommy Cauana was excellent, scoring a run while going 2-for-6.

Starpoint's loss dropped their record down to 0-3. As for Sweet Home, their win was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 4-5-1.

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