The Organ Mountain Knights will venture away from home to take on the Mayfield Trojans at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Organ Mountain is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.6 runs per game this season.
Organ Mountain is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: Centennial, who was ranked 14th at the time (Organ Mountain was ranked 12th). The Knights took an 8-3 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Hawks on Thursday. Knights fans who chose to attend the game sure picked the wrong one: it was the first time the team's lost against the Hawks since on Thursday.
Organ Mountain saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Eren De Leon, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI.
Meanwhile, Mayfield came tearing into Thursday's matchup with five straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 7.6 runs), and they left with even more momentum. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Panthers an 11-0 shutout. The Trojans might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won seven games by six runs or more this season.
Mayfield pushed their record up to 13-9-1 with the victory, which was their fourth straight at home. The home wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 8.0 runs over those games. As for Organ Mountain, their defeat dropped their record down to 15-7-1.
Organ Mountain beat Mayfield 12-8 in their previous matchup back in March. Will the Knights repeat their success, or do the Trojans have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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