The Beckville Bearcats will venture away from home to challenge the Ore City Rebels at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Beckville is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.6 runs per game this season.
Beckville's usually-dominant pitching crew will be looking to make up for Thursday's struggle, when Overton hitters got past them. The Bearcats fell just short of the Mustangs by a score of 12-11 on Thursday. That's two games in a row now that the Bearcats have lost by just one run.
Braxton Bullock was cooking despite his team's loss, going 3-for-5 with five RBI and three runs. Aiden Harris was another key player, going 2-for-3 with one triple, one run, and one RBI.
Meanwhile, Ore City made easy work of Union Grove on Thursday and carried off a 12-3 victory. The result was nothing new for the Rebels, who have now won nine games by seven runs or more so far this season.
The win made it two in a row for Ore City and bumps their season record up to 14-7. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered a grand total of 8 runs in those games. As for Beckville, their defeat ended a seven-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 15-5.
Beckville was able to grind out a solid win over Ore City when the teams last played back in February of 2023, winning 6-3. Will the Bearcats repeat their success, or do the Rebels have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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