Baseball Game Preview: Prairie View Thunderhawks vs. Mountain Range Mustangs

The Prairie View Thunderhawks will challenge the Mountain Range Mustangs at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Prairie View has seven straight wins, Mountain Range has nine straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.

Prairie View proved they can win big on Tuesday (they won by 11) and on Thursday they proved they can win the close ones too. They won by a run and slipped past Brighton 10-9.

Jerry Stone

Runs Batted In (Career)

04/10/25 @ Brighton	4
04/08/25 @ Boulder	3
03/08/25 @ Fruita Monument	3
05/09/24 @ Fairview	3
05/02/24 @ Northglenn	3

Jerry Stone was incredible, firing off two home runs and four RBI while going 2-for-4. Those four RBI gave him a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Giovanni Tarin, who scored two runs while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.

Mountain Range might be feeling deja-vu: they lost 7-5 to Skyview, which was the same score (and result) they got the week prior.

Zane Weingartner was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring a run while going 2-for-4. Landon Maves was another key player, scoring a run and stealing a base while going 2-for-4.

Prairie View pushed their record up to 11-3 with the victory, which was their fourth straight on the road. Those road wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 9.5 runs over those games. As for Mountain Range, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-11.

Everything went Prairie View's way against Mountain Range when the teams last played back in April of 2024, as Prairie View made off with a 20-6 victory. Will the Thunderhawks repeat their success, or do the Mustangs have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.