Baseball Game Preview: Laguna Beach Breakers vs. University Trojans

For the second straight game, Laguna Beach will face off against University. The Breakers will look to defend their home field on Friday against the Trojans at 3:30 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Laguna Beach has four straight wins, University has five straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.

Laguna Beach's pitching crew heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. They blew past University 9-0. That's two games straight that the Breakers have won by exactly nine runs.

Branson Wade looked comfortable as he didn't allow a single earned run and allowed only one hit over four innings pitched. He has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't given up more than one earned run in 11 consecutive appearances.

At the plate, Laguna Beach let Otis Boultinghouse and Lucien Reed run wild. Boultinghouse went 3-for-5 with three RBI, two runs, and one stolen base, while Reed went 2-for-4 with one home run, two RBI, and one double. That's the most hits Boultinghouse has posted since back in March. The team also got some help courtesy of Lincoln Adams, who got on base in three of his five plate appearances with two stolen bases, one run, and one RBI.

Laguna Beach kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 12 hits. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now got at least 11 hits in three consecutive games.

Laguna Beach's victory was their tenth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 22-3. Those road wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.8 runs on average over those games. As for University, they now have a losing record of 12-13.