After two games on the road, Lawrence County is heading back home. They will take on the Mendenhall Tigers at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Lawrence County is strutting in with some hitting muscle, as they've averaged 6.7 runs per game this season.
After soaring to 20 runs the game before, Lawrence County was a bit more limited in their game on Friday. They wound up on the wrong side of a rough 11-1 walloping at the hands of Richland. Lawrence County has not had much luck with Richland recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Lawrence County saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Caden Case, who went 1-for-3 with a stolen base. Case is on a roll when it comes to stolen bases, as he's now stolen at least one in the last three games he's played.
Meanwhile, while Mendenhall put up some runs on Friday, the same can't be said for Quitman. Everything went Mendenhall's way against Quitman as Mendenhall made off with a 10-0 victory.
Lawrence County's defeat dropped their record down to 10-8-1. As for Mendenhall, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matches, which provided a massive bump to their 11-10 record this season.
Lawrence County suffered a grim 8-2 defeat to Mendenhall in their previous matchup back in February. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Mendenhall's Parker Eichwurtzle, who struck out six batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off nine hits. Now that Lawrence County knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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