Baseball Preview: Pine Ridge Panthers vs. Deltona Wolves
The Pine Ridge Panthers will be playing in front of their home fans against the Deltona Wolves at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Pine Ridge is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They walked away with a 5-1 win over Matanzas.
Pine Ridge got a great performance from Loren Cheatham as he didn't allow a single earned run and only two hits over 6.2 innings pitched.
On the hitting side, Pine Ridge's victory was truly a team effort as seven different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Derrick Walker, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, while Deltona put up some runs on Tuesday, the same can't be said for Seabreeze. Everything went Deltona's way against Seabreeze as Deltona made off with a 9-0 win.
The team relied heavily on Jaden Colon, who scored a run while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of William Martinez, who scored a run while going 1-for-4.
Pine Ridge pushed their record up to 15-10 with that victory, which was their third straight at home. As for Deltona, they have been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 9-15 record this season.
Pine Ridge was able to grind out a solid win over Deltona in their previous matchup back in April, winning 7-4. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was Deltona's Miguel Cortes, who tossed 3.2 innings while giving up no earned runs off four hits. Now that he's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Pine Ridge still be able to contain Cortes? There's only one way to find out.
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