The Oak Forest Bengals will take on the Lemont Lemont HS at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Oak Forest 3.6, Lemont 1.6) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Oak Forest fought the good fight in their extra-innings game against Oak Lawn on Thursday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Spartans by a score of 3-1. That makes it the first time this season the Bengals have let down their home crowd.
Meanwhile, Lemont waltzed into their matchup on Saturday with 11 straight wins... but they left with 12. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Warriors a 5-0 shutout. Five seems to be a good number for the Lemont HS as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Lemont's victory was their tenth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 22-3-1. Those road wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 10.8 runs over those games. As for Oak Forest, their loss dropped their record down to 16-10-1.
Oak Forest took their victory against Lemont when the teams last played back in April of 2024 by a conclusive 14-3 score. Will the Bengals repeat their success, or do the Lemont HS have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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