The Dartmouth Indians are taking a road trip to take on the Reading Memorial Rockets on Saturday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Dartmouth comes in on five and Reading Memorial on ten.
If Dartmouth beats Reading Memorial with nine runs on Saturday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. The Indians beat Shepherd Hill Regional on Thursday by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 9-5.
Meanwhile, it can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Reading Memorial had no problem doing just that on Wednesday. Their pitcher stepped up to hand the Hillers a 2-0 shutout. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest victory the Rockets have posted since April 30th.
Not much got past Grady Ventura, who gave up just a hit and racked up seven Ks to keep Hopkinton off the board. Ventura has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't given up more than two walks in four consecutive appearances.
On the hitting side, Reading Memorial saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Kamden Greatorex, who went 2-for-3 with two runs.
Dartmouth pushed their record up to 19-5 with the win, which was their eighth straight at home. The home victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.1 runs on average over those games. As for Reading Memorial, their record now sits at 19-3.
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