Softball Preview: Valley Union Blue Devils vs. St. David Tigers
Valley Union is 0-10 against St. David since April of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Valley Union Blue Devils will look to defend their home field against the St. David Tigers at 3:45 p.m. Valley Union will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each match than the last.
On Tuesday, it was a hard-fought game, but Valley Union had to settle for a 15-14 loss against Duncan. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game two weeks ago (12), Valley Union still had to take the loss.
Courtney Noble made the most of her time at bat despite the final result and scored two runs and stole two bases while going 2-for-4. Another player making a difference was Kali Prudler, who scored a run while going 3-for-5.
Meanwhile, St. David can now show off 11 landslide victories after their most recent contest on Monday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand Duncan an 18-0 shutout. The victory was nothing new for St. David as they're now sitting on three straight.
Valley Union's defeat dropped their record down to 6-16. As for St. David, they are on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 13-2-1 record this season.
Valley Union might still be hurting after the 21-0 loss they got from St. David in their previous meeting back in March. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of St. David's Paisley Gooding, who kept things locked down with no earned runs or hits while striking out 13 over five innings pitched. Now that Valley Union knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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