The Rayne Wolves and the Jennings Bulldogs will meet in a dog eat dog contest at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Rayne has three straight victories, Jennings has four straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Rayne is headed in fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They put the hurt on David Thibodaux with a sharp 20-1 win on Friday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
Cooper Letchworth was incredible, scoring four runs and stealing a base while going 4-for-4. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in RBI (three). Hayden Bullock was another key player, going a perfect 1-for-1 with two runs, one triple, and one RBI.
Letchworth wasn't the only one working in the hit department: Rayne kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 13 hits. That's the most hits they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, Jennings suffered their biggest defeat since March 20, 2024 on Thursday. They lost 11-3 to South Beauregard.
Jennings saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was John Mason Futch, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-3.
Rayne pushed their record up to 18-6 with the win, which was their third straight on the road. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to hits: they averaged an imposing 10.67 hits in those games compared to only 4.81 in the others. As for Jennings, their loss dropped their record down to 10-13.
Rayne was able to grind out a solid victory over Jennings in their previous meeting back in March of 2022, winning 6-1. Will Rayne repeat their success, or does Jennings has a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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