The Centennial Cougars are taking a road trip to challenge the St. Michael-Albertville Knights at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Centennial's pitching crew has only allowed 2.7 runs per game this season, so St. Michael-Albertville's hitters will have their work cut out for them.
The scorekeeper got an easy start on Tuesday as neither Centennial nor Andover made it on the board until the sixth inning. The Cougars fell just short of the Huskies by a score of 3-1. The Cougars haven't had much luck with the Huskies recently, as the team has come up short the last three times they've met.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask St. Michael-Albertville). Everything went their way against Anoka on Tuesday as they made off with an 11-4 victory. The Knights not only won on Tuesday, but they posted their biggest win since April 9th (when they won 8-1).
The win (which was St. Michael-Albertville's third in a row) raised their record to 9-4. Those victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 8.3 runs over those games. As for Centennial, their loss was their first in the conference, dropping their conference record down to 7-1 and their overall record down to 7-3.
Centennial might still be hurting after the 14-5 defeat they got from St. Michael-Albertville in their previous meeting back in April of 2024. Can the Cougars avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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