The Prairie Heights Panthers will stay at home for another game and welcome the Angola Hornets at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Having both just faced considerable losses, both teams are looking to turn things around.
Prairie Heights is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 11 runs last Saturday, they were much more limited against Fairfield last Monday. They lost 18-1 to the Falcons.
Prairie Heights saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was John Graziano, who scored a run while going 1-for-2.
Even though they lost, Prairie Heights didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with ten strikeouts. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Fairfield only tossed four.
Meanwhile, Angola was not able to break out of their rough patch on Thursday as the team picked up their fourth straight defeat. They lost 9-2 to Westview.
Prairie Heights' loss was their fifth straight at home, which dropped their record down to 1-9. As for Angola, their defeat dropped their record down to 2-10.
Prairie Heights suffered a grim 8-1 defeat to Angola when the teams last played back in May of 2023. Thankfully for Prairie Heights, Alec Bixler (who struck out eight batters over five innings while giving up just one earned run off three hits) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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