Rossford and Oak Harbor are an even 3-3 against one another since May of 2015, but likely not for long. The Rossford Bulldogs will head out on the road to take on the Oak Harbor Rockets at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Neither Rossford nor Oak Harbor posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.
Rossford will head into Wednesday's contest out to bounce back: they won a close one the last time they played, but unfortunately they suffered a serious change of fortune on Wednesday. They lost 11-1 to Wauseon.
Meanwhile, Oak Harbor came tearing into Friday's match with six straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.8 runs) and they left with even more momentum. They never let the Raiders onto the board and left with a 1-0 win.
Not much got past Michael Lalonde, who gave up just two hits and racked up six Ks to keep Lakota off the board. Lalonde has been consistent recently: he hasn't pitched less than seven innings in three consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Oak Harbor's victory was truly a team effort as four different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Brayden Butzin, who scored a run while going 1-for-2.
Rossford has been struggling recently as they've lost eight of their last nine matchups, which put a noticeable dent in their 9-13 record this season. As for Oak Harbor, they pushed their record up to 17-6 with that win, which was their fifth straight at home.
Rossford might still be hurting after the 10-4 defeat they got from Oak Harbor in their previous meeting on May 3rd. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Oak Harbor's Brayden Myerholtz, who struck out six batters over seven innings while giving up three earned (and one unearned) runs off eight hits (and not a single walk). Now that Rossford knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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