The Allen East Mustangs will face off against the Ada Bulldogs at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Allen East has three straight wins, Ada has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
If Allen East beats Ada with eight runs on Thursday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Everything went the Mustangs' way against Ridgemont on Wednesday as they made off with an 8-2 victory. The Mustangs might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won five matches by six runs or more this season.
Ada might be feeling deja-vu: they lost 16-2 to Van Buren, which was the same score (and result) they got the week prior.
Ada saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Thad Smith, who went 1-for-2 with one RBI. That RBI marked the first that Smith has brought in this season.
Ada's defeat dropped their record down to 3-9. As for Allen East, their win bumped their record up to 6-4.
Allen East took their victory against Ada when the teams last played back in April of 2024 by a conclusive 12-2 score. Will the Mustangs repeat their success, or do the Bulldogs have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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