Oakland is ranked highly in their home state and on Saturday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Austin. The Oakland Patriots fell 5-1 to the Austin Black Bears.
Oakland saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Jada Ellison, who scored a run while going 1-for-2.
Oakland's defeat dropped their record down to 13-9. As for Austin, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 32-13-1 record this season.
Oakland will be staying on the road on Saturday to face off against Lawrence County at 3:00 p.m. Oakland is facing Lawrence County at the right time seeing as Lawrence County is stuck on a seven-game losing streak. As for Austin, they will head out on the road to challenge Spain Park at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Austin is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.8 runs per game this season.
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