Baseball Recap: Make It Three in a Row for Van Meter

Bulldogs

Margin (Wins)

06/05/25 @ Madrid	10
06/05/25 @ Madrid	8
05/29/25 vs Woodward-Granger	7
05/29/25 vs Woodward-Granger	6
05/27/25 @ Earlham	6

11 must be Van Meter's lucky number: they beat Madrid with that score not once but twice on Thursday. The Bulldogs put the hurt on the Tigers with a sharp 11-1 win. The Bulldogs might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won five games by six runs or more this season.

The victory (which was Van Meter's third in a row) raised their record to 9-3. Those wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.3 runs on average over those games. As for Madrid, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 3-4.

Van Meter didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next contest, an 8-2 victory against A-D-M on the 6th. Madrid has also already played their next match (against Estherville Lincoln Central), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing.