Pine River-Backus is on a three-game streak of home losses, and Laporte an eight-game streak of away losses dating back to last season. However, someone's due for a change in luck on Monday. The Pine River-Backus Tigers will be playing at home against the Laporte Wildcats at 4:30 p.m. Pine River-Backus has given up an average of 8.6 runs per game this season, but Monday's game will give them a chance to turn things around.
Pine River-Backus is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to ten runs on Thursday, they were much more limited against Wadena-Deer Creek on Friday. They lost 19-2 to the Wolverines.
Pine River-Backus saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Koal Oberfell, who went 2-for-3 with one double and one RBI.
Meanwhile, Laporte didn't have quite enough to beat Mahnomen/Waubun on Friday and fell 7-6.
Pine River-Backus' defeat dropped their record down to 3-5. As for Laporte, they now have a losing record of 2-3.
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