The Manteno Panthers will take on the Bradley-Bourbonnais Boilermakers at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Manteno's pitching crew heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. Everything went their way against Coal City as they made off with an 11-0 victory. The Panthers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won 12 games by six runs or more this season.
Meanwhile, Bradley-Bourbonnais had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.5 runs) and they went ahead and made it three on Wednesday. They walked away with a 4-0 win over the Thunderbolts. The game snapped a strange streak: the last four times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.
The result came thanks to Lydia Hammond's shutout, as she gave up just four hits and racked up seven Ks. She has been nothing but reliable on the mound: she hasn't given up more than two walks in five consecutive appearances.
On the hitting side, Bradley-Bourbonnais saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Suttyn Hop, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI and one double.
Manteno pushed their record up to 19-5 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home. The home wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 9.9 runs over those games. As for Bradley-Bourbonnais, their victory bumped their record up to 17-10.
Manteno skirted past Bradley-Bourbonnais 9-7 when the teams last played back in April of 2021. Do the Panthers have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Boilermakers turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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