Recap: West Ranch Wildcats vs. Canyon Cowboys
West Ranch waltzed into their game on Wednesday with three straight wins... but they left with four. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Canyon Cowboys an 11-0 shutout. 11 seems to be a good number for West Ranch as the squad scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
West Ranch got a great performance from Jackson Banuelos as he didn't allow a single earned run and only a hit while striking out eight over six innings pitched. Ricky Sturm relieved him and did a solid job, tossing an inning while giving up no earned runs or hits (he also only allowed one walk).
At the plate, Miles Topping was a standout: he scored a run while going 1-for-1. Brett Ishikawa was another key contributor, scoring two runs while going 2-for-4.
On Canyon's side, they saw one different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Tsukasa Ozaki, who went 1-for-2 with a stolen base.
West Ranch is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 8-2-1 record this season. As for Canyon, their defeat was their fourth straight on the road, which dropped their record down to 6-8.
West Ranch will have a chance to go back-to-back against Canyon: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 3:30 p.m. on Friday.
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