The Negaunee Miners will be playing in front of their home fans against the Houghton Gremlins at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Both teams have allowed few runs on average, (Negaunee: 3.4, Houghton: 4.1) so any runs scored will be well earned.
If Negaunee beats Houghton with five runs on Monday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Negaunee won by a run and slipped past Alpena 5-4. That's two games straight that Negaunee has won by just one run.
Meanwhile, Houghton had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.3 runs), and they went ahead and made it seven on Saturday. Everything went their way against the Lakes as they made off with a 10-3 win. Houghton might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team's won five games by seven runs or more this season.
Negaunee pushed their record up to 12-2 with that victory, which was their fourth straight at home dating back to last season. As for Houghton, their win bumped their record up to 10-3.
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