Baseball Preview: Hopkins Academy Golden Hawks vs. Pioneer Valley Regional Panthers
The Hopkins Academy Golden Hawks will be staying on the road on Monday to face off against the Pioneer Valley Regional Panthers at 4:00 p.m. Both teams come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Hopkins Academy will bounce into Monday's game after beating Frontier Regional, who they hadn't topped in nine consecutive meetings. Hopkins Academy walked away with a 5-2 win over Frontier Regional on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Pioneer Valley Regional had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2.5 runs), and they went ahead and made it three on Saturday. They never let the Pirates onto the board and left with a 4-0 victory. Four seems to be a good number for Pioneer Valley Regional as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Not much got past Ben Werner, who gave up just three hits and racked up seven Ks to keep Oxford off the board.
On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Ethan Quinn, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3.
Hopkins Academy now has a winning record of 5-4. As for Pioneer Valley Regional, their victory bumped their record up to 12-2.
Hopkins Academy was able to grind out a solid win over Pioneer Valley Regional in their previous matchup back in June of 2023, winning 9-4. Will Hopkins Academy repeat their success, or does Pioneer Valley Regional have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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