Baseball Preview: Thornwood Thunderbirds vs. Crete-Monee Warriors
Thornwood is 2-7 against Crete-Monee since May of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Monday. The Thornwood Thunderbirds will head out on the road to face off against the Crete-Monee Warriors at 4:30 p.m. Thornwood will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each match than the last.
On Saturday, Thornwood made easy work of Thornton and carried off a 16-2 victory.
Meanwhile, Crete-Monee sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with an 8-6 win over Argo on Saturday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Crete-Monee.
Crete-Monee saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Bren Milburn, who scored two runs and stole three bases while going 4-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of Samuel McCandless, who went 2-for-4 with two RBI and a double.
Thornwood is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 7-8-1 record this season. As for Crete-Monee, their victory bumped their record up to 12-8.
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