The West Lafayette Red Devils will face off against the Western Panthers at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday.
The home team had won the previous three meetings between West Lafayette and McCutcheon, and McCutcheon kept the tradition alive. The Red Devils fell 7-3 to the Mavericks on Monday. The Red Devils haven't had much luck with the Mavericks recently, as the team has come up short the last eight times they've met.
West Lafayette saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Joe Doty, who went 1-for-3 with one run.
Meanwhile, Western had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 7.7 runs) and they went ahead and made it four on Saturday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Patriots a 2-0 shutout.
Western pushed their record up to 23-4 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home. The home wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 9.2 runs over those games. As for West Lafayette, they now have a losing record of 11-12.
West Lafayette might still be hurting after the 13-3 loss they got from Western in their previous meeting back in April. Can the Red Devils avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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