Softball Preview: Standley Lake Gators vs. D'Evelyn Jaguars
Standley Lake hasn't had much luck against D'Evelyn recently, but that could start to change on Monday. The Standley Lake Gators will look to defend their home field against the D'Evelyn Jaguars at 4:30 p.m. Standley Lake is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.9 runs per game this season.
Standley Lake is headed into Monday's contest looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their third straight game on Saturday. They lost 14-4 to Pomona. That's two games in a row now that the Gators have lost by exactly ten runs.
Standley Lake saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Jena Apodaca, who went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI. The dominant performance gave Apodaca a new career-high in batting average.
Meanwhile, D'Evelyn entered their tilt with Dakota Ridge on Saturday with three consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with four. Everything went their way against the Eagles as they made off with a 13-1 win.
Tess Miller made a splash while hitting and pitching. She pitched three innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. Miller was also stellar in the batter's box, going 3-for-3 with two triples and an RBI.
In other batting news, D'Evelyn got a big performance out of Claudia Harris, who scored a run while going 2-for-3. Another player making a difference was Rachel Perlman, who scored two runs while going 1-for-1.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, D'Evelyn was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .625. That was just more of the same: they've now posted a batting average of .350 or higher in four consecutive matches.
Standley Lake's defeat dropped their record down to 4-6. As for D'Evelyn, their victory was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 9-3.
D'Evelyn's pitching crew has a crucial task ahead of them: Standley Lake has been making plenty of contact this season, having averaged 9.3 hits per game. It's a different story for D'Evelyn, though, as they've been averaging 8.7. Given Standley Lake's sizable advantage in that area, D'Evelyn will need to find a way to close that gap.
Standley Lake might still be hurting after the 11-1 loss they got from D'Evelyn in their previous meeting back in September of 2023. Can Standley Lake avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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