The Lake Zurich Bears will head out on the road to take on the Libertyville Wildcats at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Lake Zurich is coming into the game hot, having won their last six games.
Lake Zurich is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Thursday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand Highland Park a 13-0 shutout.
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Libertyville, who bounced back after a loss on the road on Saturday. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 1-0 win over Wheeling on Wednesday.
Not much got past Chase Lockwood, who gave up just three hits and racked up 11 Ks to keep Wheeling off the board. Lockwood has been consistent recently: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in seven consecutive pitching appearances.
Lake Zurich has been performing well recently as they've won ten of their last 12 matches, which provided a massive bump to their 18-11 record this season. As for Libertyville, their victory bumped their record up to 25-9-2.
Lake Zurich might still be hurting after the 8-2 defeat they got from Libertyville in their previous meeting back in April. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Lockwood, who struck out seven batters over 6.1 innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off nine hits (and only one walk). Now that Lake Zurich knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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