The Whitman Vikings will head out on the road to square off against the Magruder Colonels at 5:15 p.m. on Monday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Whitman will head into Saturday's game on the come-up: they were handed a two-run loss in their last contest, but they sure didn't let that happen against Clarksburg on Saturday. Whitman never let Clarksburg onto the board and left with an 11-0 victory. The high-flying hitting performance was a huge turnaround for Whitman considering their one-run performance the matchup before.
Wells Twining tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run and only two hits while striking out 13 over five innings pitched. He has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't given up more than two hits in three consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Sammy Angel, who scored two runs and stole two bases while going 2-for-3. Chand Amerasinghe was another key contributor, scoring a run and stealing two bases while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, Magruder had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 10.1 runs), and they went ahead and made it eight on Thursday. They put the hurt on the Wolverines with a sharp 7-0 win.
Whitman's victory bumped their record up to 13-3. As for Magruder, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 11 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 14-5 record this season.
Everything went Whitman's way against Magruder in their previous meeting back in April of 2019 as Whitman made off with a 13-1 win. Will Whitman repeat their success, or does Magruder have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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