Softball Recap: Newbury Park Panthers vs. Calabasas Coyotes
In what's become a running theme this season, Newbury Park gave their fans yet another huge victory on Thursday. They blew past the Calabasas Coyotes 9-1. The win was nothing new for Newbury Park as they're now sitting on four straight.
Taylor Cook was a major factor while hitting and pitching. She struck out ten batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned run off three hits (and only one walk). Cook has been consistent recently: she hasn't tossed less than six strikeouts in 16 consecutive pitching appearances. Cook was also big at the plate, going 2-for-3 with two RBI.
In other batting news, Yasmin Topinko was excellent, scoring a run while going 1-for-4. MacKenzie Lovato was another key contributor, scoring three runs while going 1-for-1.
On Calabasas' side, they saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Rocky Deming, who went 1-for-3 with an RBI.
Newbury Park has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matches, which provided a nice bump to their 17-4 record this season. As for Calabasas, they haven't won a game yet this season and fell to 0-20.
Newbury Park will head out on the road to take on Nordhoff at 3:30 p.m. on Friday. Nordhoff will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each contest than the last. As for Calabasas, they will look to defend their home field on Tuesday against Agoura at 3:30 p.m. Agoura is strutting in with some hitting muscle, as they've averaged 9.2 runs per game this season.
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