The North Union Wildcats will head out on the road to challenge the West Jefferson Roughriders at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams are coming into the contest red-hot, with North Union sitting on four straight wins and West Jefferson on three.
North Union will head into Saturday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Thursday (they won by ten) but on Saturday they proved they can win the close ones too. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Shawnee and snuck past 10-8. Ten seems to be a good number for North Union as the squad scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Landon Converse was incredible, scoring two runs and stealing a base while getting on base in four of his five plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Tyler Krebehenne, who scored two runs and stole two bases while getting on base in two of his six plate appearances.
Meanwhile, West Jefferson earned a 6-3 win over Worthington Christian on Thursday.
North Union pushed their record up to 16-9 with that victory, which was their fifth straight on the road. As for West Jefferson, they have been performing well recently as they've won six of their last eight matchups, which somehow isn't as good as their 19-5 record this season.
North Union came up short against West Jefferson in their previous meeting back in March of 2023, falling 10-7. Can North Union avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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