Baseball Preview: Pacifica Tritons vs. University City Centurions
The Pacifica Tritons will be playing at home against the University City Centurions at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Pacifica is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Thursday. They had just enough and edged Valhalla out 6-4. Six seems to be a good number for Pacifica as the team scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Pacifica's victory was truly a team effort as six different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Devon Wilkes, who went 1-for-3 with two RBI. Wilkes has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than two walks in three consecutive pitching appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Mekaeo Lualemana, who scored two runs while getting on base in two of his three plate appearances.
Meanwhile, University City came tearing into Thursday's game with 18 straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.7 runs) and they left with even more momentum. They beat the Huskies by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 3-2.
Pacifica has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 13 of their last 15 contests, which provided a massive bump to their 20-12-1 record this season. As for University City, their win was their ninth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 30-5.
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