Baseball Preview: Westmont Warriors vs. Los Altos Eagles
The Westmont Warriors will be playing at home against the Los Altos Eagles at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Both teams come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
If Westmont beats Los Altos with six runs on Saturday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two matchups with that exact score. Westmont walked away with a 6-3 victory over Leland last Thursday. The win was nothing new for Westmont as they're now sitting on three straight.
Westmont got a big performance out of Matthew Rienhardt, who went 1-for-4 with three stolen bases and an RBI. The team also got some help courtesy of Xavier Mizer, who scored a run and stole two bases.
Meanwhile, Los Altos was able to grind out a solid victory over Half Moon Bay on Saturday, taking the game 8-5.
Channing Hautop made a big impact no matter where he played. He pitched five innings while giving up just one earned run off five hits. Hautop was also big at the plate, going 3-for-3 with a home run and three RBI.
Hautop wasn't the only one making solid contact as seven players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Miles Field, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-3.
Westmont has been performing well recently as they've won eight of their last ten contests, which provided a nice bump to their 19-8 record this season. As for Los Altos, their win bumped their record up to 14-12.
Westmont came out on top in a nail-biter against Los Altos in their previous matchup back in February, sneaking past 1-0. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was Los Altos' Eric Colgrove, who didn't allow a single earned run over four innings pitched. Now that he's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Westmont still be able to contain Colgrove? There's only one way to find out.
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