The Red Land Patriots will stay at home for another game and welcome the Cedar Cliff Colts at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.
Red Land's hitters might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against Mifflin County on Thursday. They fell just short of the Huskies by a score of 1-0.
Meanwhile, Cedar Cliff had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4 runs), and they went ahead and made it four on Thursday. They came out on top against the Wildcats by a score of 6-1.
Cedar Cliff got a great performance from Luke Sowers as he didn't allow a single earned run and only two hits over five innings pitched.
On the hitting side, Cayden Bender was incredible, going 1-for-2 with a home run and four RBI. Matt Eisenhower was another key contributor, going 1-for-1 with a double and an RBI.
Red Land's defeat was their fifth straight at home, which dropped their record down to 3-15. As for Cedar Cliff, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine contests, which provided a nice bump to their 13-4-1 record this season.
Red Land might still be hurting after the 13-3 loss they got from Cedar Cliff when the teams last played back in March. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Cedar Cliff's Luke Minium, who struck out nine batters over four innings while giving up just one earned (and two unearned) runs off three hits. Now that Red Land knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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