The Walnut Grove Tigers will take on the Ash Grove Pirates at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Walnut Grove 3.8, Ash Grove 3.2) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Walnut Grove easily dispatched Greenwood on Tuesday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. The Tigers fell just short of Billings by a score of 5-3 on Friday. The loss was the Tigers' first of the season.
Walnut Grove saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Max Hanak, who went 3-for-4 with two RBI. Another was Sam Voris, who went 1-for-3 with one run and one double.
Meanwhile, Ash Grove strolled into their game on Tuesday with an undefeated record and they left with the same. They came out on top against Fordland by a score of 12-8.
Having lost for the first time this season, Walnut Grove fell to 4-1. As for Ash Grove, their victory bumped their record up to 4-0-1.
Walnut Grove was able to grind out a solid win over Ash Grove in their previous matchup back in April of 2019, winning 10-5. Will the Tigers repeat their success, or do the Pirates have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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