Softball Preview: Colony Titans vs. Ayala Bulldogs
Colony is 1-9 against Ayala since May of 2021 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Colony Titans will head out on the road to take on the Ayala Bulldogs at 3:30 p.m. Neither Colony nor Ayala posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.
On Monday, Colony suffered a rough 12-2 defeat at the hands of Claremont. That's two games in a row now that Colony has lost by exactly ten runs.
Meanwhile, Ayala came tearing into Monday's match with 11 straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 8.7 runs) and they left with even more momentum. They skirted past the Bearcats 2-1.
Allie Lukaszewicsz spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: she surrendered only one earned run on five hits. She has been consistent recently: she hasn't given up more than two walks in eight consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Ayala's win was truly a team effort as four different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Lilanna Acosta, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI.
This is the second loss in a row for Colony and nudges their season record down to 6-12. As for Ayala, their victory was their eighth straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 17-3.
Colony might still be hurting after the 14-1 loss they got from Ayala when the teams last played back in March. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Ayala's Ashlyn Hames, who pitched five innings while giving up just one earned run off three hits. Now that Colony knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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