Mountain View is 2-8 against Riverbend since May of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Mountain View Wildcats will be playing at home against the Riverbend Bears at 6:00 p.m. Mountain View is coming into the match hot, having won their last eight games.
Mountain View stacked a fifth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Tuesday. Everything went their way against Massaponax as Mountain View made off with a 9-2 victory. Nine seems to be a good number for Mountain View as the team scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Savannah Ballou spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: she surrendered just two earned runs on four hits. She has been nothing but reliable: she hasn't pitched less than seven innings every time she's pitched this season.
On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Makayla Irwin, who scored two runs while going 3-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of Janelle Sargent, who scored two runs while going 2-for-4.
Meanwhile, Riverbend unfortunately witnessed the end of their three-game winning streak on Wednesday. They wound up on the wrong side of a tough 13-7 walloping at the hands of Colonial Forge. The loss unfortunately continues a disappointing trend for Riverbend in their matchups with Colonial Forge: they've now lost four in a row.
Mountain View's victory was their seventh straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 9-1-1. As for Riverbend, their defeat dropped their record down to 5-5.
Mountain View skirted past Riverbend 5-4 when the teams last played back in March. Does Mountain View have another victory up their sleeve, or will Riverbend turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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