Baseball Recap: Green Mountain extends home winning streak to nine

By Team Reports Apr 11, 2024, 10:09am

Baseball Recap: Green Mountain Rams vs. Pomona Panthers

Green Mountain entered their tilt with Pomona with four consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with five. They walked away with a 7-2 win over the Pomona Panthers on Wednesday. That result was just more of the same for these two, as Green Mountain also won the last time the pair played back in April of 2023.

Simon Lunsford tossed a big game, striking out six batters over 5.1 innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off three hits.

At the plate, Craig Busse was incredible, going 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI. DJ Villalovas was another key contributor, going 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.

On Pomona's side, they saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Maddux Najera, who went 1-for-2 with two stolen bases.

Green Mountain pushed their record up to 5-1 with that victory, which was their ninth straight at home dating back to last season. Those victories were due in large part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 10.0 runs per game. As for Pomona, they are on a four-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 1-5.

Green Mountain will head out on the road to square off against Golden at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. The pair have allowed few runs on average, (Golden: 1.4, Green Mountain: 2.7) so any runs scored will be well earned. As for Pomona, they will be playing in front of their home fans against D'Evelyn at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. D'Evelyn has struggled to contain batters this season (they've allowed 7.71 runs per game on average), something Pomona will no doubt try to take advantage of.

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