The St. Joseph Christian Lions will head out to challenge the Maysville Wolverines at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with St. Joseph Christian sitting on ten straight victories and Maysville on eight.
St. Joseph Christian can't be too worried about heading out to take on Maysville: they just beat Polo at home, who had been dominant on their own field up to that point. The Lions walked away with a 6-1 win over the Panthers on Wednesday. That's two games straight that the Lions have won by exactly five runs.
Meanwhile, Maysville made easy work of Tarkio on Tuesday and carried off a 9-3 victory. Considering the Wolverines have won nine games by more than five runs this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.
St. Joseph Christian pushed their record up to 23-4 with the win, which was their eighth straight on the road. Those road victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.5 runs on average over those games. As for Maysville, their record now sits at 23-5.
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