Softball Preview: Canon City Tigers vs. Palmer Terrors
Canon City is 8-1 against Palmer since September of 2016, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. The Canon City Tigers will host the Palmer Terrors at 6:00 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Canon City has six straight victories, Palmer has ten straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
If Canon City beats Palmer with 14 runs on Thursday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Canon City was the clear victor by a 14-2 margin over Coronado on Tuesday. The Tigers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won ten matches by eight runs or more this season.
Khloe Weise was a major factor while hitting and pitching. She pitched four innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off four hits. Weise was also stellar in the batter's box, going 2-for-4 with a home run, five RBI, and three runs.
In other batting news, Canon City got a big performance out of Allisyn Gasseling, who got on base in all three of her plate appearances with two RBI and a double. Another player making a difference was Addison Arnold, who scored two runs while going 2-for-3.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Canon City was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .545. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .375 or higher in six consecutive matchups.
Meanwhile, Palmer lost 17-2 to Mesa Ridge on Tuesday. That's two games in a row now that the Terrors have lost by exactly 15 runs.
Canon City has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 11-7 record this season. As for Palmer, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-11.
Everything went Canon City's way against Palmer when the teams last played last Tuesday, as Canon City made off with a 23-2 win. Will Canon City repeat their success, or does Palmer have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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