The Spring Grove Lions are taking a road trip to challenge the Southland Rebels at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Spring Grove proved they can win big on Thursday (they won by six) and on Friday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past Fillmore Central/Lanesboro 5-3. Winning may never get old, but the Lions sure are getting used to it with their fourth in a row.
Meanwhile, Southland was not the first on the board on Monday, but they got there more often. They skirted past United South Central 5-4. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest victory Southland has posted since April 10th.
Southland let Brekken Koenigs and Austin Swenson run wild. Koenigs got on base in three of his four plate appearances with one run and one RBI, while Swenson went 3-for-4 with one stolen base and one RBI. That stolen base was Swenson's first of the season. The team also got some help courtesy of Noah Goergen, who went 2-for-5 with one stolen base and one RBI.
Southland is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matches. That's provided a nice bump to their 9-3 record this season. Those wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.0 runs on average over those games. As for Spring Grove, their victory bumped their record up to 8-3.
Spring Grove came up short against Southland in their previous matchup back in April, falling 10-5. Can the Lions avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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