After starting their season with six straight games on the road, Zion-Benton is finally coming home. They will be defending their home-pitchthey go up against the Mundelein Mustangs at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Zion-Benton's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. They blew past Lakes 3-0.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Mundelein). Everything went their way against Round Lake on Tuesday as Mundelein made off with a 5-1 win. The matchup was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 3-0.
Mundelein hit Round Lake with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Chris Rivas (2),
Diego Sanchez, and
Andy Rodriguez.
The victory got Zion-Benton back to even at 3-3. As for Mundelein, their win bumped their record up to 3-4-1.
Zion-Benton came out on top in a nail-biter against Mundelein when the teams last played back in September of 2023, sneaking past 2-1. Will Zion-Benton repeat their success, or does Mundelein have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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