The Friendswood Mustangs will take on the Montgomery Bears at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Friendswood has ten straight victories, Montgomery has three straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Montgomery's hitters are going to have their work cut out for them on Saturday: Friendswood hadn't allowed a single run the last three times they've hit the field. Friendswood never let Santa Fe get on the board and left with a 2-0 win on Tuesday. The two-run effort marked the Mustangs' lowest-scoring game of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
Meanwhile, Montgomery has relied on a stalwart pitchers averaging four runs allowed per game, but that average took a hit on Friday. They fell just short of Brenham by a score of 11-10. Even if the Bears couldn't come away with the victory, the high-scoring effort was a great turnaround for their hitters, which had struggled int the games prior.
Friendswood's win was their ninth straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 17-1. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.4 runs on average over those games. As for Montgomery, their loss dropped their record down to 11-6.
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