Sweet Home and Starpoint are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2016, but likely not for long. The Sweet Home Panthers will head out on the road to challenge the Starpoint Spartans at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. Starpoint took a loss in their last game and will be looking to turn the tables on Sweet Home, who comes in off a win.
If Sweet Home beats Starpoint with nine runs on Monday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two matchups with that exact score. Sweet Home walked away with a 9-6 victory over Nichols on Saturday. The win made it back-to-back victories for Sweet Home.
Meanwhile, Starpoint was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their fourth straight defeat. They fell just short of Sweet Home by a score of 9-8. That's two games in a row now that Starpoint has lost by just one run.
Sweet Home's win was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 4-5-1. As for Starpoint, their loss dropped their record down to 0-3.
Sweet Home came out on top in a nail-biter against Starpoint in their previous meeting on Friday, sneaking past 9-8. The rematch might be a little tougher for Sweet Home since the squad won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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