Baseball Game Preview: Waubonsie Valley Warriors vs. DeKalb Barbs

For the second straight game, Waubonsie Valley will face off against DeKalb. The Warriors will look to defend their home field on Thursday against the Barbs at 4:30 p.m. Waubonsie Valley has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the game with three straight defeats, while DeKalb will come in with four straight victories.

Waubonsie Valley is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to ten runs on Monday, they were much more limited against DeKalb on Tuesday. They took a 5-2 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Barbs. The game snapped a strange streak: the last four times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.

For DeKalb's part, their win was truly a team effort as seven different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Cole Latimer, who went 1-for-2 with one run.

DeKalb pushed their record up to 15-2-1 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. Those home wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 10.3 runs over those games. As for Waubonsie Valley, they now have a losing record of 7-8.