Baseball Game Preview: Western Brown Plays at Home

By Team Reports May 4, 2024, 6:20pm

Baseball Preview: Western Brown Broncos vs. Princeton Vikings

The Western Brown Broncos will look to defend their home field on Monday against the Princeton Vikings at 5:00 p.m. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.

Western Brown is headed into the contest fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They put the hurt on Clark Montessori with a sharp 22-4 win on Friday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.

Meanwhile, Princeton had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5 runs), and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They walked away with a 12-7 win over the Middies.

Princeton got a great performance from Ryan Maloney as he struck out seven batters over six innings while giving up four earned (and three unearned) runs off four hits.

At the plate, Princeton let Lonell Williams and Junior Veras Vasquez loose on the outfield. Williams scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances, while Veras Vasquez went 2-for-3 with three RBI. Daelyn Jarman was another key contributor, scoring a run and stealing a base while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.

The victory made it two in a row for Western Brown and bumps their season record up to 5-8. As for Princeton, they now have a winning record of 12-11.

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