The Cole Valley Christian Chargers will be playing in front of their home fans against the Marsing Huskies at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Cole Valley Christian will be looking to keep their five-game home win streak alive.
Cole Valley Christian will head into Thursday's game hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Tuesday (they won by ten) but on Thursday they proved they can win the close ones too. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Melba 4-2.
The team relied heavily on Carson Russell, who scored two runs and stole two bases while going 1-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of Chris Bobrowski, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, Marsing unfortunately witnessed the end of their five-game winning streak on Thursday. They fell just short of Nampa Christian by a score of 1-0. The match marked the first time this year in which Marsing was not able to get on the board.
Teagan Kinney spent all 7.1 innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered one run (which was unearned) on four hits and racked up nine Ks. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't pitched less than six innings in three consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Marsing saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Levi Puga, who went 1-for-3 with a stolen base and a double.
Cole Valley Christian has been performing well recently as they've won 12 of their last 16 contests, which somehow isn't as good as their 20-6-1 record this season. As for Marsing, their loss dropped their record down to 13-11.
Cole Valley Christian couldn't quite finish off Marsing in their previous matchup on Saturday and fell 4-2. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Kinney, who didn't allow a single earned run while striking out eight over seven innings pitched. Now that Cole Valley Christian knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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