The Mission Valley Vikings will venture away from home to take on the Olpe Eagles at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Mission Valley has four straight victories, Olpe has eight straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
16 must be Mission Valley's lucky number: they beat Osage City with that score not once but twice on Friday. The Vikings beat the Indians by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 16-6. The result was nothing new for the Vikings, who have now won 11 contests by eight runs or more so far this season.
Josie Kraus
| 05/02/25 vs Osage City | 3 |
| 04/24/25 @ West Franklin | 2 |
| 04/17/25 vs Chase County | 2 |
| 04/03/25 @ Lyndon | 2 |
| 04/21/25 vs Rossville | 1 |
Josie Kraus was a standout: she went a perfect 2-for-2 with three RBI, two runs, and one double. Those three RBI gave her a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Abby Sims, who went 3-for-4 with three RBI and two runs.
Mission Valley was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .536. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .333 or higher in five consecutive games.
Meanwhile, Olpe didn't have quite enough to beat Lebo back in March and fell 15-14.
Olpe's loss dropped their record down to 0-2. As for Mission Valley, their record now sits at 14-6.
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