The Pine Island Panthers will take on the Randolph Rockets at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Pine Island will be looking to extend their current eight-game winning streak.
The scorekeeper got an easy start on Tuesday as neither Pine Island nor Byron made it on the board until the fifth inning. The Panthers walked away with a 4-1 win over the Bears. That's two games straight that the Panthers have won by exactly three runs.
Ben Grabau was excellent, going 2-for-3 with one run, one double, and one RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Landon Lowrie, who went 2-for-3 with one run, one double, and one RBI.
While Randolph didn't have the best season last year (they finished 9-12), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past. They blew past Blooming Prairie 13-3 on Thursday. Considering the Rockets have won six matchups by more than five runs this season, Thursday's blowout was nothing new.
Pine Island's victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 8-1. The road wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.0 run on average over those games. As for Randolph, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 6-2.
Pine Island took their win against Randolph in their previous meeting back in May of 2024 by a conclusive 9-0 score. Will the Panthers repeat their success, or do the Rockets have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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