The Pine Forest Eagles will take on the Harrison County Thorobreds/Fillies at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. Pine Forest has given up an average of 12.8 runs per game this season, but Monday's game will give them a chance to turn things around.
Pine Forest is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 17 runs on Thursday, they were much more limited against Escambia on Friday. They lost 11-1 to the Gators. The loss continues a trend for the Eagles in their meetings with the Gators: they've now lost four in a row.
Pine Forest saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was AL Leatherwood, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 2-for-3. Caleb McWilliams was another, going a perfect 2-for-2 with one RBI.
Meanwhile, Harrison County entered their tilt with Milton on Saturday with eight consecutive wins, and they'll enter their next game with nine. They came out on top against the Panthers by a score of 9-4.
Harrison County pushed their record up to 12-1-1 with the win, which was their fourth straight on the road. The road victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.8 runs on average over those games. As for Pine Forest, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-20-1.
Everything went Pine Forest's way against Harrison County when the teams last played back in April of 2023, as Pine Forest made off with a 9-2 win. Will the Eagles repeat their success, or do the Thorobreds/Fillies have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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