North Port is 0-5 against Cardinal Mooney since March of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The North Port Bobcats will head out on the road to challenge the Cardinal Mooney Cougars at 4:30 p.m. Given that both teams suffered a loss in their last game, they both have a little extra motivation heading into this game.
North Port is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to ten runs on Thursday, they were much more limited against Fort Myers on Friday. They wound up on the wrong side of a tough 16-1 walloping at the hands of the Green Wave.
North Port saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Zach Mitchell, who went 1-for-2 with a double and an RBI.
Meanwhile, Cardinal Mooney was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their third straight defeat. They fell just short of St. Petersburg Catholic by a score of 8-6. That's two games in a row now that Cardinal Mooney has lost by exactly two runs.
Joey Siefert was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring a run and stealing a base while going 2-for-4. Another player making a difference was Eddie Zaun, who scored two runs while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
North Port's loss dropped their record down to 10-13. As for Cardinal Mooney, their defeat ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 10-10-1.
North Port suffered a grim 16-8 defeat to Cardinal Mooney in their previous meeting on April 6th. Can North Port avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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