The Beardstown Tigers will venture away from home to challenge the Seymour Indians at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Beardstown is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.5 runs per game this season.
Beardstown will bounce into Friday's contest after beating Quincy Notre Dame, who they had gone 1-8 against in their nine prior meetings. The Tigers came out on top against the Raiders by a score of 7-4 on Thursday. While the Tigers didn't have the best season last year (they finished 8-13), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past.
Tannar Riddell spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered three earned (and one unearned) runs on four hits and racked up ten Ks.
Ethan Heller
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On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Ethan Heller, who went a perfect 3-for-3 with two runs and one double. Those three hits gave him a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Trey Riddell, who went 2-for-3 with two runs and one stolen base.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Seymour). They put the hurt on Camp Point Central with a sharp 15-2 victory on Tuesday. The high-flying hitting performance was a huge turnaround for the Indians considering their two-run performance the matchup before.
Seymour also let their pitcher toss all seven innings and he was also dialed-in: Raulin Zehnle gave up only one earned (and one unearned) run on seven hits. Zehnle has become a key player for the Indians: the team is 4-2 when he allows at most two earned runs, but 1-7 otherwise.
At the plate, Hunter Miller and Blake Schwartz did most of the damage at the plate: Miller went 2-for-3 with four RBI, while Schwartz got on base in two of his five plate appearances with four stolen bases and three runs. Schwartz is becoming a predictor of Seymour's success: when he posts at least two stolen bases the team is 2-1 (and 3-8 when he doesn't). Another player making a difference was Connor Howell, who got on base in two of his five plate appearances with two runs, one stolen base, and one RBI.
Beardstown is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight games. That's provided a nice bump to their 7-4 record this season. Those wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.3 runs on average over those games. As for Seymour, with the victory, they broke their four-game losing streak and moved their record to 5-9.
