The Mankato West Scarlets will head out on the road to square off against the Owatonna Huskies at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Mankato West will aim to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each match than the last.
Mankato West was handed a heart-breaking two-run defeat in their last contest, but they sure didn't let that happen against John Marshall on Tuesday. The Scarlets blew past the Rockets 14-2. The Scarlets have beaten the Rockets the last six times they've met, but they better watch out: this was the closest the Rockets has come to flipping the script.
Meanwhile, Owatonna had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 7 runs) and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. They came out on top against the Panthers by a score of 8-5.
Owatonna pushed their record up to 11-2 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 9.0 runs over those games. As for Mankato West, their victory bumped their record up to 8-2.
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