After two games on the road, Paradise is heading back home. They will take on the Ponder Lions at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Paradise's pitching crew has only allowed 3.5 runs per game this season, so Ponder's hitters will have their work cut out for them.
On Tuesday, Paradise didn't have quite enough to beat Ponder and fell 4-2. Paradise has not had much luck with Ponder recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Austin Cole was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he didn't allow a single earned run while striking out eight over five innings pitched. Zech Sanders came in to relieve Cole and was airtight, giving up no runs, hits or walks in his one inning pitched.
At the plate, Paradise saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Madden Taylor, who went 1-for-2 with a double and an RBI.
Paradise's defeat dropped their record down to 12-8. As for Ponder, their win bumped their record up to 4-11-2.
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