Merryville is 0-7 against DeRidder since February of 2015 but things could change on Saturday. The Merryville Panthers will challenge the DeRidder Dragons at 12:00 p.m. Merryville is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.5 runs per game this season.
On Thursday, Merryville came up short against Anacoco and fell 9-6. The Panthers have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Blaze Brister was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring two runs while going 3-for-4. Jerimaya Robinson was another key player, scoring a run while going 2-for-4.
Meanwhile, DeRidder had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6 runs) and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They came out on top against the Wampus Cats by a score of 8-4. The game snapped a strange streak: the last four times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.
Merryville's defeat dropped their record down to 7-3. As for DeRidder, their win bumped their record up to 9-14.
Merryville suffered a grim 10-2 defeat to DeRidder when the teams last played back in March of 2021. Can Merryville avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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