Baseball Game Preview: West Ranch Wildcats vs. Hart Hawks

For the second straight game, West Ranch will face off against Hart. The Wildcats will be playing in front of their home fans against the Hawks at 3:30 p.m. on Friday.

West Ranch will bounce into Friday's contest after beating Hart, who they had gone 2-7 against in their nine prior meetings. The Wildcats won by a run and slipped past the Hawks 6-5.

Josh Price

Hits (Career)

04/29/26 @ Hart	3
03/27/26 @ Canyon	2
03/25/26 vs Canyon	2
03/20/26 @ Castaic	2
04/07/26 vs Camarillo	1

The team relied heavily on Josh Price, who went a perfect 3-for-3 with three RBI and two doubles. Those three hits gave him a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Preston Loren, who went a perfect 3-for-3 with one run and one RBI.

Hart is on a six-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 10-14-1. Those defeats can't be blamed on the team's hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 6.2 runs over those games. As for West Ranch, their win bumped their record up to 14-12.