McDonough is 0-8 against Leonardtown since March of 2015 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The McDonough Rams will head out on the road to take on the Leonardtown Raiders at 4:30 p.m. Neither McDonough nor Leonardtown posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.
Last Friday, McDonough didn't have quite enough to beat North Point and fell 3-2.
Meanwhile, Leonardtown faced Northern in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Tuesday. Leonardtown fell just short of Northern by a score of 4-2. Leonardtown has not had much luck with Northern recently, as the team's come up short the last eight times they've met.
Leonardtown saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Cali Harclerode, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
Even though they lost, Leonardtown didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 11 strikeouts. That's the most strikeouts they've managed all season.
McDonough's loss dropped their record down to 0-2. As for Leonardtown, they now have a losing record at 4-5.
McDonough might still be hurting after the 10-0 defeat they got from Leonardtown in their previous meeting back in March of 2023. Thankfully for McDonough, Madison Lloyd (who didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out six over seven innings pitched) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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