Baseball Recap: Mount Olive Drops Season-High Score on Newton

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Team Score (Highest)

05/01/25 @ Newton	16
04/21/25 @ Parsippany Hills	13
04/02/25 @ Morris Hills	12
04/23/25 vs Parsippany Hills	10
04/22/25 @ Jefferson Township	10

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Mount Olive). They blew past the Newton Braves 16-2 on Thursday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest win of the season.

Mount Olive is on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last 11 games. That's provided a nice bump to their 11-4 record this season. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.6 runs on average over those games. As for Newton, they now have a losing record of 8-9.

Mount Olive didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next match, an 18-5 win against Morris Hills on the 2nd. As for Newton, they also wasted no time getting back out on the field and have already played their next contest, an 8-1 defeat against North Hunterdon on the 2nd.