Baseball Recap: Dover Extends Winning Streak to Seven
By Team Reports
Apr 16, 2025, 3:10am
Baseball Recap: Dover Longhorns vs. Ninnekah Owls
| 04/15/25 vs Ninnekah | 4-0 |
| 04/15/25 @ Union City | 8-1 |
| 04/11/25 @ Lookeba-Sickles | 10-5 |
| 04/08/25 @ Pioneer-Pleasant Vale | 10-5 |
| 04/07/25 vs Cimarron | 12-0 |
| + 2 more games |
Dover had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.5 runs) and they went ahead and made it seven on Tuesday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Ninnekah Owls a 4-0 shutout. For the Longhorns, this counts as revenge for the 3-2 victory the Owls walked away with the last time they faced one another back in March of 2021.
Dover saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Brennan Fletcher, who went a perfect 3-for-3 with two RBI and one double. Those three hits gave Fletcher a new career-high. Another was Ivan Ruiz, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.
Dover pushed their record up to 13-9 with the win, which was their third straight at home. Those home victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.3 runs on average over those games. As for Ninnekah, they are on a seven-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 4-15.
Coming up, Dover will welcome Frontier at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. As for Ninnekah, they will challenge Ringling at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday.
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