Baseball Preview: Desert Christian Knights vs. Leuzinger Olympians
The Desert Christian Knights will face off against the Leuzinger Olympians at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Desert Christian is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They came out on top against Sierra Vista by a score of 8-4. The win was a breath of fresh air for Desert Christian as it put an end to their four-game losing streak.
Desert Christian got a great performance from Jason Main as he struck out seven batters over 5.2 innings while giving up just two earned (and one unearned) runs off four hits.
At the plate, the team relied heavily on Oskar Medina III, who scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Jase Pfeil, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, Leuzinger had already won 12 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 10.2 runs), and they went ahead and made it 13 on Friday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past the Raiders 6-4. Six seems to be a good number for Leuzinger as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Desert Christian's victory bumped their record up to 16-7. As for Leuzinger, they pushed their record up to 18-3 with that win, which was their ninth straight at home.
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