Softball Game Preview: Pine Lake Prep Pride vs. Mountain Island Charter Raptors

The Pine Lake Prep Pride will take on the Mountain Island Charter Raptors at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Both teams are coming into the match red-hot, with Pine Lake Prep sitting on five straight victories and Mountain Island Charter on nine.

Pine Lake Prep's pitching crew heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. Everything went their way against Langtree Charter Academy as they made off with a 17-0 win. Considering the Pride have won 12 contests by more than nine runs this season, Monday's blowout was nothing new.

Kristen Armstrong

Runs Batted In (Career)

04/28/25 vs Langtree Charter Academy	6
04/15/25 @ Langtree Charter Academy	5
04/25/24 vs West Cabarrus	5
04/19/24 vs Bradford Prep	5
04/19/24 vs Bradford Prep	4

Kristen Armstrong was a major factor no matter where she played. On the mound, she pitched three innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. Armstrong was also stellar in the batter's box, going a perfect 2-for-2 with one home run, six RBI, and three runs. Those six RBI gave her a new career-high.

In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Emery Jensen, who went a perfect 2-for-2 with three runs, three RBI, and two doubles. Maddie Beaver was another key player, going a perfect 1-for-1 with two runs, one triple, and one RBI.

Pine Lake Prep was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .688. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .300 or higher in nine consecutive matchups.

Mountain Island Charter played against Christ the King on Monday and won via forfeit.

Mountain Island Charter pushed their record up to 10-7 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home. The home wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.4 runs on average over those games. As for Pine Lake Prep, their victory bumped their record up to 14-3.

Pine Lake Prep couldn't quite finish off Mountain Island Charter when the teams last played on April 4th and fell 7-5. Can the Pride avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.