Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Lincoln Southeast). Everything went their way against the North Platte Bulldogs on Thursday as the Lincoln Southeast Knights made off with a 16-3 victory. The Knights might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won four games by ten runs or more this season.
Lincoln Southeast got a massive performance out of Ava Neumayer, who went 3-for-3 with a home run and three runs. Raina Waller was another key player, scoring three runs while going 3-for-3.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Lincoln Southeast always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .640. That's a new trend for them: their average OBP was 36.4% earlier this season, but in their last five contests they've averaged 45.9%.
Lincoln Southeast's win ended a six-game drought at home and bumped them up to 5-8. As for North Platte, they dropped their record down to 3-8 with that loss, which was their fifth straight on the road.
Lincoln Southeast will have a chance to go back-to-back against North Platte: the pair will be back at it again later today.
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