Baseball Preview: Foothill Tech Dragons vs. Channel Islands Raiders
After five games on the road, Foothill Tech is heading back home. They will take on the Channel Islands Raiders at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
On Thursday, Foothill Tech came up short against Lompoc and fell 7-3. That's two games in a row now that Foothill Tech has lost by exactly four runs.
Foothill Tech saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Russell Brown, who went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI. Another player making a difference was Cooper Casey, who got on base in three of his four plate appearances with a stolen base.
Meanwhile, Channel Islands was not able to break out of their rough patch on Wednesday as the team picked up their fourth straight loss. They wound up on the wrong side of a rough 11-0 walloping at the hands of Nipomo.
Foothill Tech dropped their record down to 6-11-1 with that defeat, which was their sixth straight on the road. As for Channel Islands, their loss dropped their record down to 5-13.
Everything went Foothill Tech's way against Channel Islands in their previous meeting back in February as Foothill Tech made off with a 7-1 victory. Does Foothill Tech have another victory up their sleeve, or will Channel Islands turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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