The Red Bud Musketeers will head out on the road to challenge the Okawville Rockets at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Red Bud has three straight wins, Okawville has nine straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Red Bud's pitching crew heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. Everything went their way against Sparta as Red Bud made off with a 6-0 victory.
Derrick Whelan made a splash while hitting and pitching. He looked comfortable on the mound, not allowing a single earned run and only two hits over seven innings pitched. Whelan was also solid in the batter's box, going 4-for-5 with an RBI.
In other batting news, Dylan Minemann was excellent, scoring a run while going 3-for-4. Chase Lucht was another key contributor, going 1-for-2 with a double and an RBI.
Meanwhile, Okawville came up short against Carlyle on Thursday and fell 5-2.
Red Bud is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matches, which provided a nice bump to their 14-9-1 record this season. As for Okawville, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-16.
Everything went Red Bud's way against Okawville in their previous meeting back in April as Red Bud made off with a 13-1 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for Red Bud since the team won't have the home-field advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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