South Salem and West Salem are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2019, but likely not for long. The South Salem Saxons will head out on the road to challenge the West Salem Titans at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Last Wednesday, it was close, but South Salem sidestepped Sprague for a 2-1 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for South Salem.
Meanwhile, West Salem came tearing into Thursday's match with eight straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.8 runs) and they left with even more momentum. They never let the Celtics onto the board and left with a 9-0 win. West Salem might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team's won nine games by six runs or more this season.
South Salem has been performing well recently as they've won nine of their last 12 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-8 record this season. As for West Salem, they pushed their record up to 17-5 with that victory, which was their fourth straight at home.
South Salem might still be hurting after the 10-1 defeat they got from West Salem when the teams last played last Tuesday. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of West Salem's Braeli Martin, who struck out 12 batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned run off six hits (and not a single walk). Now that South Salem knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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