After two games on the road, Nordonia is heading back home. They will take on the St. Vincent-St. Mary Fighting Irish at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. Nordonia will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each matchup than the last.
On Saturday, Nordonia needed a bit of extra time to put away Woodridge. They skirted past the Bulldogs 10-9.
The team relied heavily on Drew Leffel, who scored two runs while going 1-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Owen Smotek, who went 1-for-4 with two runs and a triple.
Meanwhile, St. Vincent-St. Mary fought the good fight in their extra-innings contest against Perry on Saturday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Panthers by a score of 10-9.
Will Tober was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he tossed 5.1 innings while giving up just two earned (and one unearned) runs off six hits.
On the hitting side, Tyler Slone made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and went 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBI. Connor Christie was another key contributor, going 3-for-4 with a triple and two RBI.
Nordonia has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 12-5 record this season. As for St. Vincent-St. Mary, their loss dropped their record down to 14-4.
Everything went Nordonia's way against St. Vincent-St. Mary when the teams last played back in April of 2018 as Nordonia made off with an 11-1 win. Does Nordonia have another victory up their sleeve, or will St. Vincent-St. Mary turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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