Baseball Preview: Eldorado Golden Eagles vs. West Mesa Mustangs
Eldorado is 8-2 against West Mesa since April of 2019, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Saturday. The Eldorado Golden Eagles have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the West Mesa Mustangs at 10:00 a.m. The last three games Eldorado has played have been within two runs, so don't be surprised if it's a close one.
Eldorado is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: Rio Rancho, who was ranked second in their home state at the time (Eldorado was ranked ninth). Eldorado fell just short of Rio Rancho by a score of 8-7 on Tuesday. Eldorado has not had much luck with Rio Rancho recently, as the team's come up short the last five times they've met.
Eldorado saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Timothy Kamphuis, who scored a run while going 3-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of Ethan Marquez, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, West Mesa was not able to break out of their rough patch on Saturday as the team picked up their eighth straight loss. They suffered a rough 12-1 defeat at the hands of Piedra Vista.
Eldorado's loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 15-7. As for West Mesa, their defeat dropped their record down to 5-16.
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