Baseball Recap: Ridgeline Riverhawks vs. Mountain Crest Mustangs
Ridgeline entered their tilt with Mountain Crest with four consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with five. They skirted past the Mountain Crest Mustangs 6-4. This was payback for Ridgeline, who suffered a 12-9 defeat the last time these two teams met.
Ridgeline saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Hayden Hansen, who went 1-for-3 with a home run. The team also got some help courtesy of Cam Blotter, who scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in two of his four plate appearances.
On Mountain Crest's side, Rylin Needham was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he struck out seven batters over five innings while giving up just one earned (and five unearned) runs off three hits. Needham has been nothing but reliable: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in three consecutive pitching appearances.
Ridgeline pushed their record up to 16-6 with that victory, which was their seventh straight at home. As for Mountain Crest, their loss ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 13-9.
Ridgeline will have a chance to go back-to-back against Mountain Crest: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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