The De Kalb Bears will take on the Liberty-Eylau Leopards at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. De Kalb's pitching crew has only allowed 3.6 runs per game this season, so Liberty-Eylau's hitters will have their work cut out for them.
De Kalb easily dispatched Queen City on Tuesday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. The Bears fell just short of Hooks by a score of 5-3 on Friday. The Bears' loss signaled the end of their four-game winning streak.
Meanwhile, Liberty-Eylau had already won 21 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5 runs) and they went ahead and made it 22 on Friday. They came within a single run of losing the streak, but they secured a 1-0 W against the Dragons.
Liberty-Eylau pushed their record up to 24-3 with the win, which was their 13th straight at home dating back to last season. Those home victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 8.2 runs over those games. As for De Kalb, their defeat dropped their record down to 14-10.
De Kalb couldn't quite get it done against Liberty-Eylau when the teams last played back in March as they fell 4-1. Can the Bears avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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