Softball Game Preview: Eastview on Home-Turf

By Team Reports May 8, 2024, 7:52am

Softball Preview: Eastview Lightning vs. Prior Lake Lakers

Eastview is 2-8 against Prior Lake since April of 2017 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Eastview Lightning will look to defend their home field against the Prior Lake Lakers at 4:30 p.m. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.

Eastview is probably headed into the matchup with a chip on their shoulder considering Hastings just ended the team's six-game winning streak on Tuesday. They fell 6-3 to the Raiders.

Ireland Murphy was cooking despite her team's loss, scoring a run while going 3-for-4.

Meanwhile, Prior Lake unfortunately witnessed the end of their four-game winning streak on Monday. They fell just short of Rosemount by a score of 4-3. Prior Lake has struggled against Rosemount recently, as their contest on Monday was their sixth consecutive lost matchup.

Eastview's defeat ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 9-8. As for Prior Lake, they now have a losing record at 7-8.

Everything went Eastview's way against Prior Lake in their previous meeting back in April as Eastview made off with a 16-3 victory. Does Eastview have another victory up their sleeve, or will Prior Lake turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.

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