Baseball Preview: Shaker Heights Red Raiders vs. Mentor Cardinals
Shaker Heights is 1-9 against Mentor since April of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Monday. The Shaker Heights Red Raiders will head out on the road to square off against the Mentor Cardinals at 5:00 p.m. Shaker Heights will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each matchup than the last.
Shaker Heights scored the most runs they've had all season to find success on Wednesday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand Euclid a 24-0 shutout. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
Meanwhile, Mentor put another one in the bag on Saturday to keep their perfect season alive. They walked away with a 3-0 win over South. Despite the victory, that was the fewest runs Mentor has scored all year.
Peter Kennedy looked comfortable as he didn't allow a single earned run over four innings pitched.
At the plate, the team relied heavily on Nick Square, who went 2-for-3 with a triple, a run, and an RBI. Another player making a difference was Max Vanhimbergen, who went 2-for-3 with a triple and a run.
Shaker Heights' win ended a four-game drought on the road and puts them at 3-5. As for Mentor, they pushed their record up to 7-0 with that victory, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season.
Shaker Heights might still be hurting after the 10-0 defeat they got from Mentor in their previous meeting back in April of 2022. Can Shaker Heights avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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