Baseball Game Preview: Service Cougars vs. West Valley Wolf Pack

The Service Cougars will head out on the road to challenge the West Valley Wolf Pack at 3:30 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Service has 18 straight wins, West Valley has seven straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.

Service picked up another tournament win on Thursday. They came out on top against Colony by a score of 6-2. Those six runs were actually the fewest the Cougars have put up all season, but given the result they're probably not too concerned.

The team relied heavily on Rilen Niclai, who went 1-for-3 with one stolen base, two RBI, and one run. Palmer Dalton also deserves some recognition as he snagged his first stolen base of the season.

Meanwhile, West Valley came up short against Soldotna on Thursday and fell 4-1.

West Valley saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Elias Powell, who went 1-for-2 with one run and one double.

Service pushed their record up to 5-0 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season. The home wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.7 runs on average over those games. As for West Valley, their loss dropped their record down to 0-4.

Everything went Service's way against West Valley in their previous matchup back in June of 2017, as Service made off with a 15-5 victory. Will the Cougars repeat their success, or do the Wolf Pack have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.