The Castle Knights will take on the Henderson County Colonels at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. Castle is coming into the game hot, having won their last five games.
Castle is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Indiana's top teams: Evansville Memorial, who was ranked 25th at the time (Castle was ranked 14th). The Knights narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past the Tigers 2-1.
For some reason, the away team has come away with the win the last four times Henderson County and Madisonville-North Hopkins have met, but the home crowd finally got their W on Tuesday. The Colonels lost 7-1 to the Maroons. The defeat continues a trend for the Colonels in their meetings with the Maroons: they've now lost three in a row.
Henderson County saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Hunter Evans, who went 2-for-3 with two doubles.
Henderson County's loss dropped their record down to 10-16. As for Castle, their win bumped their record up to 17-5.
Castle skirted past Henderson County 4-3 in their previous matchup back in May of 2023. Will the Knights repeat their success, or do the Colonels have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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