Baseball Recap: 12 Straight Home Wins for Benton

There's no place like home for Benton, who bounced back after a loss on the road on Saturday. Everything went their way against the Oak Park Northmen on Saturday as they made off with a 12-2 win. Considering the Cardinals have won four games by more than five runs this season, Saturday's blowout was nothing new.

Cardinals

Previous Games (Home)

04/05/25 vs Oak Park	12-2
03/31/25 vs Maryville	13-7
05/21/24 vs St. Pius X	1-0
05/16/24 vs Savannah	4-1
05/14/24 vs Cameron	15-0
+ 7 more games

Benton pushed their record up to 6-4 with the victory, which was their 12th straight at home dating back to last season. Those home wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.7 runs on average over those games. As for Oak Park, their defeat ended a seven-game streak of away wins dating back to last season and brought them to 5-4.

Benton has already played their next matchup (against Webb City), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Oak Park also has no score uploaded for their next contest, this one against Kickapoo.