The Minnesota Valley Lutheran Chargers will square off against the Maple River Eagles at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The squads are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: Minnesota Valley Lutheran has struggled recently with four defeats in a row, while Maple River will arrive with six straight wins.
Minnesota Valley Lutheran came up short against Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop on Friday, falling 12-3.
Minnesota Valley Lutheran saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Nora Grace Otto, who went a perfect 2-for-2 with one RBI. Those hits marked the first that Otto has got this season.
16 must be Maple River's lucky number: they beat Sibley East with that score not once but twice on Tuesday. The Eagles never let the Wolverines get on the board and left with a 16-0 victory. The result was nothing new for the Eagles, who have now won seven matches by six runs or more so far this season.
Maple River's win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 9-2. The road victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.7 runs on average over those games. As for Minnesota Valley Lutheran, their loss dropped their record down to 3-9.
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