Baseball Game Preview: Northwestern Tigers vs. Lewis Cass Kings

Tigers

Runs

04/25/25 @ Western	1
04/23/25 @ Whitko	9
04/21/25 @ Sheridan	21
04/19/25 vs Mississinewa	0
04/17/25 @ Oak Hill	14
+ 7 more games

The Northwestern Tigers will square off against the Lewis Cass Kings at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. Northwestern is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.5 runs per game this season.

Northwestern easily dispatched Whitko on Wednesday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. The Tigers fell just short of Western by a score of 3-1 on Friday. The Tigers haven't had much luck with the Panthers recently, as the team has come up short the last eight times they've met.

Northwestern got a good showing from Ayden Giles, who tossed two innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. The dominant performance also gave Giles a new career-low in walks (zero).

At the plate, Northwestern saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Teegan Helmle, who got on base in all three of his plate appearances with one stolen base. Helmle has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last three times he's played.

Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Lewis Cass, who bounced back after a loss on the road on Tuesday. They had just enough and edged out Peru 11-9. The high-flying hitting performance was a huge turnaround for the Kings considering their one-run performance the game before.

The win snapped Lewis Cass' losing streak at three games and leaves them with a 6-3 record. As for Northwestern, their loss dropped their record down to 9-3.

Everything went Northwestern's way against Lewis Cass in their previous meeting back in April of 2023, as Northwestern made off with a 10-4 victory. Do the Tigers have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Kings turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.