The Pleasant Plains Cardinals will play host again on Tuesday to welcome the Olympia Spartans, where first pitch is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. Pleasant Plains is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.5 runs per game this season.
Pleasant Plains is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 25 runs on Saturday, they were much more limited against Normal University on Monday. They lost 11-1 to the Pioneers. The loss continues a trend for Pleasant Plains in their matchups with Normal University: they've now lost four in a row.
Pleasant Plains saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Drew Green, who went 1-for-3 with an RBI.
Meanwhile, Olympia earned a 6-3 victory over Auburn on Monday. The win made it back-to-back victories for Olympia.
Pleasant Plains' defeat dropped their record down to 23-5. As for Olympia, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 12-12 record this season.
Pleasant Plains came out on top in a nail-biter against Olympia when the teams last played back in April of 2023, sneaking past 5-3. Will Pleasant Plains repeat their success, or does Olympia have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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