The Pleasant Plains Cardinals will look to defend their home field on Friday against the St. Joseph-Ogden Spartans at 5:15 p.m. The two teams have allowed few runs on average, (Pleasant Plains: 3.2, St. Joseph-Ogden: 2.7) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Pleasant Plains' hitters might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against Lincoln on Wednesday. They lost 6-0 to the Railsplitters.
Pleasant Plains saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Drew Green, who went 2-for-3 with a double.
Meanwhile, St. Joseph-Ogden narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past Mattoon 7-5.
Pleasant Plains' defeat ended an eight-game streak of away wins and brought them to 24-6. As for St. Joseph-Ogden, they are on a roll lately: they've won 18 of their last 19 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 29-3 record this season.
Pleasant Plains skirted past St. Joseph-Ogden 5-3 when the teams last played back in April of 2023. Will Pleasant Plains repeat their success, or does St. Joseph-Ogden have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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