Baseball Game Preview: Rock Falls Rockets vs. North Boone Vikings

The Rock Falls Rockets will take on the North Boone Vikings at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. Rock Falls has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the contest with four straight losses, while North Boone will come in with six straight victories.

Rock Falls fought the good fight in their extra-innings game against North Boone on Thursday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Vikings by a score of 6-5. Give some credit to the fans of both teams: the last seven times they've met, the home team has come away the winner.

AJ Moore

Hits

05/08/25 @ North Boone	3
04/29/25 @ Dixon	3
04/28/25 @ Genoa-Kingston	3

Rock Falls saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was AJ Moore, who went 3-for-4 with one RBI. Moore has been hot recently, having posted three or more hits the last three times he's played.

North Boone pushed their record up to 25-4 with the win, which was their 12th straight at home. The home victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.0 runs on average over those games. As for Rock Falls, their defeat dropped their record down to 10-15-1.