The Douglass Indians will take on the Normangee Panthers at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Douglass has three straight victories, Normangee has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Douglass barely beat Mt. Enterprise the last time the pair played, but that sure wasn't the case this time around. The Indians' pitchers stepped up to hand the Wildcats a 7-0 shutout last Tuesday. Considering the Indians have won ten matches by more than five runs this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Normangee took on Lovelady last Tuesday. The Panthers lost 8-1 to the Lions.
Normangee saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Farrell Butler, who went 1-for-2 with one run and one double.
Douglass pushed their record up to 16-7-1 with the win, which was their third straight at home. Those home victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 11.7 runs over those games. As for Normangee, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-11.
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