Marcus is ranked highly in their home state and on Friday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Harvard-Westlake. The Marauders fell just short of the Wolverines by a score of 7-6. That's two games in a row now that the Marauders have lost by just one run.
This is the second loss in a row for Marcus and nudges their season record down to 20-8. Even worse, they were so close both times: the defeats came by an average of only one runs. As for Harvard-Westlake, the win (which was their fourth in a row) raised their record to 16-6.
Coming up, Marcus will take on Coppell at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The Cowboys' pitching crew has only allowed 3.3 runs per game this season, so the Marauders' hitters will have their work cut out for them. As for Harvard-Westlake, they will challenge Westlake at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (the Wolverines 3.9, the Warriors 4) so any runs scored will be well earned.
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