Baseball Preview: Western Wayne Wildcats vs. Honesdale Hornets
Western Wayne is 0-7 against Honesdale since April of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Monday. The Western Wayne Wildcats will be playing at home against the Honesdale Hornets at 4:30 p.m. Western Wayne will be strutting in after a victory while Honesdale will be coming in after a loss.
Western Wayne will head into Saturday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they only won by two when they last took the field, which might have inspired the ten-run they dealt Forest City on Saturday. Western Wayne blew past Forest City 12-2. That looming 12-2 mark stands out as the most commanding margin for Western Wayne yet this season.
Ethan Lamberton and Jamie Chapman did most of the damage at the plate: Lamberton went 2-for-2 with a home run, four RBI, and two runs, while Chapman went 4-for-4 with five RBI, a stolen base, and a run. The team also got some help courtesy of Ethan Grodack, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, Honesdale came up short against Lake-Lehman on Saturday and fell 6-2. Honesdale has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Honesdale saw seven different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Travis Beisner, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.
Even though they lost, Honesdale didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 15 strikeouts. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Lake-Lehman only tossed three.
Western Wayne's win ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 6-11. As for Honesdale, their defeat dropped their record down to 10-5.
Western Wayne couldn't quite finish off Honesdale when the teams last played back in April and fell 3-1. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Honesdale's Peter Modrovsky, who didn't allow a single earned run while striking out 14 over six innings pitched. Now that Western Wayne knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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