The McDonell Central Macks will face off against the Somerset Spartans at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Neither McDonell Central nor Somerset posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.
McDonell Central is probably headed into the contest with a chip on their shoulder considering Grantsburg just ended the team's three-game winning streak on Monday. They fell just short of the Pirates by a score of 2-1.
Meanwhile, Somerset hadn't done well against Baldwin-Woodville recently (they were 1-8 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Thursday. The Spartans never let the Blackhawks get on the board and left with a 1-0 victory.
Somerset is on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 12 matchups. That's provided a nice bump to their 16-7 record this season. Those wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.8 runs on average over those games. As for McDonell Central, their defeat dropped their record down to 13-8.
McDonell Central came out on top in a nail-biter against Somerset in their previous meeting back in May of 2023, sneaking past 1-0. Do the Macks have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Spartans turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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