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The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk baseball team gets a chance to see how they measure up with the best team in 2A Tuesday when No. 1 Wilton comes to Paul N. Bailey Field in Wellman. Mid-Prairie enters the game with a 12-8 overall record, winners of four in a row including an 8-4 win over Benton Community on Friday. On the season the Golden Hawks are hitting .260 as a team, led by Brad Tornow with his .449 average. On the mound, Mid-Prairie has a team ERA of 3.46, led by Tornow with a 4-0 record and 0.63ERA in 33 innings of work.

Wilton enters play with an overall record of 19-1. The Beavers have won eight in a row including a 4-1 win over West Branch last night. On the season, Wilton is hitting .353 as a team, led by Colin McCrabb with a .475 overall average. On the mound the Beavers have a team ERA of 0.89 led by McCrabb and Ashton Stoelk with a combined 6-0 record in 37 innings with zero ERAs. Jared Townsend has a 6-0 record in 31 innings with a 0.22 ERA. These two teams met a year ago with Wilton sweeping the doubleheader by 6-0 and 2-0 scores.

You can hear all of the action live from Paul N. Bailey Field in Wellman tonight, beginning with the Washington HyVee pregame show at 5p.m, first pitch of game one at 5:30 and game two to follow on AM 1380, FM 102.5 and KCIIradio.com.