Sam Rayburn hasn't had much luck against Muenster recently, but that could start to change on Thursday. The Rebels will square off against the Hornets. Both come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Sam Rayburn is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Saturday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand North Hopkins a 5-0 shutout. Five seems to be a good number for the Rebels as the team scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Jamison Dorris and Cooper Robison were major factors no matter where they played. Throwing, Dorris didn't allow a single earned run over four innings pitched. Meanwhile, Robison pitched three innings while giving up no earned runs off two hits. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in strikeouts (five). At bat, Dorris went 2-for-3 with one double, while Robison went 2-for-3 with two runs, two RBI, and one double. Those runs were Robison's first of the season.
They weren't the only ones making solid contact as five players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Clay Caldwell, who went 2-for-4 with one run and one double.
Sam Rayburn kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 14 hits. That's the most hits they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, Muenster had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 8.7 runs) and they went ahead and made it eight on Friday. They came out on top against the Pirates by a score of 7-2.
Muenster's win was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 20-8-2. The home victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 9.6 runs over those games. As for Sam Rayburn, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 16-9-1.
Sam Rayburn suffered a grim 11-1 defeat to Muenster when the teams last played back in April of 2016. Can the Rebels avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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