Softball Preview: Royal Highlanders vs. Charter Oak Chargers
The Royal Highlanders will head out on the road to challenge the Charter Oak Chargers at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Royal comes in on four and Charter Oak on nine.
Royal is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Thursday. Their pitcher stepped up to hand Beckman a 3-0 shutout. Three seems to be a good number for Royal as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Not much got past Julianna Galbraith, who gave up just two hits and racked up six Ks to keep Beckman off the board. Galbraith has been nothing but reliable on the mound: she hasn't pitched less than seven innings in four consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Royal saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Skylar Gapol, who went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.
Meanwhile, Charter Oak narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Lakewood 1-0. Despite the win, that was the fewest runs Charter Oak has scored all year.
Royal is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 14-7 record this season. As for Charter Oak, they pushed their record up to 18-2-1 with that victory, which was their 12th straight at home.
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