The Kutztown Cougars are taking a road trip to square off against the Twin Valley Raiders at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Kutztown 2.8, Twin Valley 2.7) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Kutztown is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 16 runs on Friday, they were much more limited against Blue Mountain on Saturday. They fell just short of the Eagles by a score of 2-1. The Cougars haven't had much luck with the Eagles recently, as the team has come up short the last three times they've met.
Meanwhile, Twin Valley entered their tilt with Conrad Weiser on Saturday with six consecutive wins, and they'll enter their next game with seven. Their pitcher stepped up to hand the Scouts a 6-0 shutout. Considering the Raiders have won seven contests by more than five runs this season, Saturday's blowout was nothing new.
Not much got past Ben Vaughan, who gave up just three hits and racked up seven Ks to keep Conrad Weiser off the board. Vaughan has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up a single earned run in four consecutive appearances.
On the hitting side, Twin Valley's win was truly a team effort as seven different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Logan Crunk, who went 1-for-4 with one triple and one run. Kooper Zdimal was another, going 1-for-3 with two RBI and one run.
Twin Valley pushed their record up to 13-5 with the victory, which was their fourth straight at home. Those home wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 7.0 runs over those games. As for Kutztown, their defeat dropped their record down to 12-7.
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