Valmeyer is 0-3 against Columbia since April of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Saturday. The Valmeyer Pirates will look to defend their home field against the Columbia Eagles at 10:00 a.m. Valmeyer is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last four games.
Valmeyer will head into Thursday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big last Thursday (they won by seven) but on Thursday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past Marissa/Coulterville 3-1.
Valmeyer's win was truly a team effort as two different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Chase Snyder, who went 1-for-2 with a stolen base and an RBI.
Meanwhile, Columbia faced Mascoutah in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Friday. Columbia took a 6-2 hit to the loss column at the hands of Mascoutah. Having soared to a lofty ten runs in the game before, Columbia couldn't push the score so high this time.
Valmeyer has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six games, which provided a nice bump to their 16-9 record this season. As for Columbia, their loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 21-6.
Valmeyer suffered a grim 20-4 defeat to Columbia in their previous meeting back in April of 2019. Can Valmeyer avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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