Baseball Recap: ALA - West Foothills' Victory on Monday Extends Winning Streak to Three

By Team Reports Mar 18, 2025, 8:25am

Baseball Recap: ALA - West Foothills Guardians vs. Chino Valley Cougars

ALA - West Foothills entered their tilt with Chino Valley on Monday with two consecutive wins , and they'll enter their next game with three. Everything went their way against the Chino Valley Cougars as they made off with a 12-5 win. The Guardians might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won four matchups by seven runs or more this season.

ALA - West Foothills got a great performance from Brock Christensen as he struck out seven batters over 5.2 innings while giving up just one earned (and four unearned) runs off six hits.

On the hitting side, Johnny Garcia was incredible, going 4-for-5 with four RBI and two runs. ALA - West Foothills is undefeated when Garcia posts two or more runs, but 1-2 otherwise. Another player making a difference was Brody Taylor, who scored three runs while going 1-for-3.

Guardians

Hits

03/17/25 @ Chino Valley12
03/14/25 @ North Valley Christian Academy9
03/10/25 @ Winslow11
03/01/25 @ Phoenix Country Day10
02/28/25 vs Parker11
+ 6 more games

ALA - West Foothills kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 12 hits. That's the most hits they've posted since back in April of 2024.

ALA - West Foothills pushed their record up to 6-2 with the victory, which was their third straight on the road. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.3 runs on average over those games. As for Chino Valley, their loss dropped their record down to 3-3-1.

Both squads are looking forward to the support of their home crowds in their upcoming games. ALA - West Foothills will square off against Kingman at 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Kingman is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 10.9 runs per game this season. As for Chino Valley, they will take on Camp Verde at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Camp Verde has struggled to contain batters this season (they've allowed seven runs per game on average), something Chino Valley will no doubt try to take advantage of.

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