The Roxana Shells will head out on the road to face off against the Granite City Warriors at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Roxana has three straight victories, Granite City has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
While Roxana didn't have the best season last year (they finished 0-19), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past. Everything went their way against Calhoun on Monday as they made off with a 10-4 win. The Shells might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six games by six runs or more this season.
The home team had won the previous three meetings between Granite City and Edwardsville, and Edwardsville kept the tradition alive. The Warriors lost 11-1 to the Tigers on Thursday.
Granite City saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Memphis Wyatt Brown, who went 1-for-2 with one run and one double.
Granite City's defeat dropped their record down to 1-8. As for Roxana, their victory bumped their record up to 7-1.
Everything went Roxana's way against Granite City when the teams last played back in March of 2024, as Roxana made off with a 6-0 win. Will the Shells repeat their success, or do the Warriors have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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