The Ellinwood Eagles will square off against the Ellis Railroaders at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Ellinwood has three straight wins, Ellis has ten straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
17 must be Ellinwood's lucky number: they beat Ness City with that score not once but twice on Thursday. Ellinwood beat Ness City by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 17-1. The result was nothing new for Ellinwood, who have now won six matches by six runs or more so far this season.
Ellinwood let Kennedy Behnke and Ali Gonzalez run wild. Behnke went 2-for-3 with three stolen bases, four RBI, and two runs, while Gonzalez went a perfect 3-for-3 with four stolen bases, two runs, and two RBI. That's the most RBI Behnke has posted over her last 11 contests. The team also got some help courtesy of Shyria Quintana, who went a perfect 2-for-2 with two stolen bases, two runs, and one RBI.
Ellinwood always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .846. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved their OBP total in six consecutive games.
Skyline hit Ellis with a four-run second inning on Tuesday, which goes a long way in explaining the final result. The Railroaders lost 13-5 to the Thunderbirds. That's two games in a row now that the Railroaders have lost by exactly eight runs.
Ellis' defeat dropped their record down to 0-9. As for Ellinwood, the victory got them back to even at 10-10.
Ellinwood came up short against Ellis when the teams last played back in April of 2024, falling 12-9. Will the Eagles have more luck at home instead of on the road? Check back here after the action for a full breakdown and analysis of the contest.
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