The Maple Heights Mustangs will stay at home for another game and welcome the Glenville Tarblooders at 4:30 p.m. on Monday.
Maple Heights is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 17 runs on Wednesday, they were much more limited against Villa Angela-St. Joseph on Saturday. They lost 15-1 to the Vikings.
Meanwhile, after only two runs in their last contest, Glenville made sure to put some runs up on the board against Max S. Hayes on Friday. Glenville blew past Max S. Hayes 16-2. With that win, Glenville brought their scoring average up to 6.4 runs per game.
Darrell Wheeler made a splash while hitting and pitching. He looked comfortable on the mound, striking out six batters over three innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run but no hits. Wheeler has been nothing but reliable: he hasn't given up more than one earned run in three consecutive pitching appearances. Wheeler was also stellar in the batter's box, scoring three runs and stealing two bases while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
In other batting news, Tyler Weber was excellent, scoring three runs while getting on base in all three of his plate appearances. Jordan . was another key contributor, scoring two runs while getting on base in all three of his plate appearances.
Maple Heights' defeat ended an eight-game streak of wins at home dating back to last season and dropped them to 9-4. As for Glenville, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 5-7 record this season.
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