Baseball Recap: Make It Seven in a Row for Howell

Vikings

Previous Games

04/19/25 vs Grain Valley	6-0
04/19/25 vs Nixa	2-0
04/18/25 vs Hickman	17-7
04/17/25 @ Staley	15-2
04/17/25 vs St. Elizabeth	12-4
+ 2 more games

Howell had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 7.7 runs) and they went ahead and made it seven on Saturday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Nixa Eagles a 2-0 shutout. The two-run effort marked the Vikings' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.

Howell pushed their record up to 15-1 with the win, which was their sixth straight at home. The home victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.0 runs on average over those games. As for Nixa, their defeat dropped their record down to 12-7.

Howell wasted no time getting back out on the field and has already played their next game, a 2-1 win against Howell North on the 22nd. As for Nixa, they also didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next contest, an 11-0 victory against Waynesville on the 22nd.