The Austin Prep Cougars will head out on the road to challenge the King Vikings at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Austin Prep will be strutting in after a win while King will be coming in after a loss.
Austin Prep is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Massachusetts' top teams: Dexter Southfield, who was ranked ninth at the time (Austin Prep was ranked eighth). The Cougars had just enough and edged out Dexter Southfield 3-1. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Cougars.
Meanwhile, King was not able to break out of their rough patch on Thursday as the team picked up their 11th straight defeat. They took a 5-1 hit to the loss column at the hands of Greens Farms Academy. 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.
Austin Prep's victory was their fourth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 12-2. Those road wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.3 runs on average over those games. As for King, their loss dropped their record down to 1-11.
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