A feisty cat fight will be fought as Paradise Panthers face off against Callisburg Wildcats at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Neither of those teams managed to put together many runs in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual.
Things were looking good for Paradise after they put the first points on the board on Tuesday, but unfortunately for them things went downhill from there. They fell just short of Boyd by a score of 3-2. The loss continues a trend for the Panthers in their meetings with the Yellowjackets: they've now lost four in a row.
Brooke Limbaugh put in work no matter where she played. She looked comfortable on the mound, pitching seven innings while giving up three earned runs off six hits. Limbaugh was also solid in the batter's box, scoring a run and stealing a base while going 2-for-3.
Limbaugh wasn't the only one making solid contact as two players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was McKinley McQueen, who went 1-for-2 with one stolen base. That stolen base was McQueen's first of the season.
Meanwhile, Callisburg was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their seventh straight defeat. They came up short against Ponder, falling 14-2.
Kaydin Gregory and Jai Leigh Partridge did some serious damage despite the final result: Gregory scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-2, while Partridge scored a run and stole two bases while going 1-for-1.
Callisburg's loss dropped their record down to 2-9. As for Paradise, their defeat dropped their record down to 13-6-2.
Everything went Paradise's way against Callisburg when the teams last played on March 3rd, as Paradise made off with a 21-0 win. Will Paradise repeat their success, or does Callisburg has a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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