Baseball Preview: Battle Mountain Huskies vs. Palisade Bulldogs
After six games on the road, Battle Mountain is heading back home. They will take on the Palisade Bulldogs at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday. Battle Mountain will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each contest than the last.
Battle Mountain is headed into the game fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They came out on top against Glenwood Springs by a score of 14-9 on Tuesday.
Sutton Dodds27 made a big impact while hitting and pitching. He struck out nine batters over five innings while giving up four earned (and two unearned) runs off seven hits (and only one walk). Dodds27 was also big at the plate, scoring a run while going 2-for-5.
In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Shaeffer Dodds8, who got on base in four of his five plate appearances with a home run, four RBI, and two runs. Another player making a difference was Jack Reed, who went 2-for-4 with two runs, a triple, and two RBI.
Meanwhile, Palisade stacked a tenth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Saturday. They blew past Eagle Valley 15-4. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Palisade.
The team relied heavily on Kian Kinslow, who went 3-for-4 with two runs, a triple, and two RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Hunter Howard, who went 2-for-4 with three RBI.
Battle Mountain made their fans wait, but they earned their first win of the season to make their record 1-5. As for Palisade, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 10-4-1 record this season.
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