The Evansville North Huskies will be playing in front of their home fans against the Evansville Central Bears at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Evansville North's pitching crew has only allowed two runs per game this season, so Evansville Central's hitters will have their work cut out for them.
Evansville North is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Indiana's top teams: Evansville Mater Dei, who was ranked 22nd in their home state at the time (Evansville North was ranked 16th). Evansville North's pitchers stepped up to hand Evansville Mater Dei a 1-0 shutout on Monday. Winning may never get old, but Evansville North sure is getting used to it with their third in a row.
Meanwhile, Evansville Central started off well but failed to capitalize on an early lead against Evansville North. They took a 9-5 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Huskies on Saturday. Evansville Central has struggled against Evansville North recently, as their contest on Saturday was their third consecutive lost matchup.
Evansville Central saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Jaxon Henke, who went 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI.
Evansville North's win bumped their record up to 18-4. As for Evansville Central, their loss dropped their record down to 11-9.
Evansville North was able to grind out a solid victory over Evansville Central when the teams last played on Saturday, winning 9-5. Will Evansville North repeat their success, or does Evansville Central have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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