The Minooka Indians will venture away from home to challenge the Oswego East Wolves at 4:30 p.m. on Monday. Minooka is coming into the match hot, having won their last five games.
Minooka proved they can win big on Thursday (they won by seven) and on Saturday they proved they can win the close ones too. They had just enough and edged out Rock Island 7-5.
The team relied heavily on Addisonn Crumly, who went 3-for-4 with one home run and four RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Karli McMillin, who went 1-for-4 with one run, one double, and one RBI.
Meanwhile, Oswego East had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3 runs) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They came out on top against the Wildcats by a score of 16-11. That's two games straight that the Wolves have won by exactly five runs.
Danielle Stone was a standout: she went 3-for-5 with four runs and three RBI. Those four runs gave her a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Olivia Owles, who went 3-for-5 with four runs and two stolen bases.
Oswego East kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 19 hits. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved their hit total in three consecutive games.
Minooka's win was their seventh straight at home, which pushed their record up to 19-8. The home victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 10.4 runs over those games. As for Oswego East, their record is now 16-10.
Everything went Minooka's way against Oswego East in their previous meeting back in April, as Minooka made off with an 11-1 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for the Indians 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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