The Forrest Rockets will be playing in front of their home fans against the Cascade Champions at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. Forrest is coming into the game hot, having won their last eight games.
Forrest is headed into the matchup fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. Their pitchers stepped up to hand Grundy County a 17-0 shutout on Tuesday. Considering Forrest has won seven contests by more than five runs this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.
Meanwhile, Cascade suffered a tough 10-3 defeat at the hands of Community on Monday. Cascade has struggled against Community recently, as their match on Monday was their seventh consecutive lost matchup.
Cascade saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Brianna Horn, who went 1-for-3 with two RBI and a double. Horn has been consistent recently: she hasn't tossed less than seven strikeouts in five consecutive pitching appearances.
Forrest is on a roll lately: they've won 13 of their last 14 games, which provided a nice bump to their 16-4 record this season. As for Cascade, their loss dropped their record down to 3-8.
Everything went Forrest's way against Cascade when the teams last played back in March as Forrest made off with a 16-1 victory. Does Forrest have another victory up their sleeve, or will Cascade turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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