The Southeast Polk Rams will square off against the Johnston Dragons at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Southeast Polk is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Iowa's top teams: Ankeny Centennial, who was ranked fourth at the time (Southeast Polk was ranked 15th). The Rams put the hurt on the Jaguars with a sharp 9-1 win on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Johnston had already won three in a row and they went ahead and made it four on Saturday. Everything went their way against the Dodgers as they made off with an 11-3 victory. Johnston's win was all the more impressive since the Dodgers were averaging only 3.03 runs allowed on the season.
Southeast Polk has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine contests. That's provided a nice bump to their 20-9 record this season. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.9 runs on average over those games. As for Johnston, their win bumped their record up to 20-8.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
