Baseball Game Preview: Bear Creek Bruins vs. Weston Ranch Cougars

The Bear Creek Bruins will venture away from home to face off against the Weston Ranch Cougars at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Weston Ranch took a loss in their last contest and will be looking to turn the tables on Bear Creek, who comes in off a win.

Bear Creek is headed in fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They put the hurt on Chavez with a sharp 16-2 victory on Friday. That's two games straight that the Bruins have won by exactly 14 runs.

Jaxson Bayani

Runs

02/15/25 vs Patterson	3
03/28/25 @ Chavez	2
03/20/25 @ McNair	2
02/24/25 vs Liberty Ranch	2
03/26/25 vs Chavez	1
+ 2 more games

The team relied heavily on Jaxson Bayani, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 1-for-3. Bear Creek is undefeated when Bayani posts two or more runs, but 3-9 otherwise. Jacob Ordez was another key player, scoring two runs while getting on base in three of his five plate appearances.

Bear Creek lost a few balls and finished the game with two home runs. That's the most home runs they've managed all season.

Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Weston Ranch duked it out with Tokay on Saturday. Weston Ranch took a 9-4 hit to the loss column at the hands of Tokay. The Cougars' defeat signaled the end of their three-game winning streak.

Jordan Paris was huge while hitting and pitching even without the win. On the mound, he pitched three innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than one hit in four consecutive appearances. He was also solid in the batter's box, going 1-for-4 with one triple, two RBI, and one run.

Paris wasn't the only one making solid contact as four players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was JoseLuis Suarez, who went 1-for-2 with one RBI.

The win made it two in a row for Bear Creek and bumps their season record up to 7-9. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to hits: they averaged an imposing ten hits in those games compared to only 4.29 in the others. As for Weston Ranch, their loss was their first in the league, dropping their league record down to 2-1 and their overall record down to 7-5.