The Mountain View Spartans will challenge the Los Altos Eagles at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Mountain View 3.2, Los Altos 2.7) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Monday just wasn't the day for Mountain View's offense. They fell 4-0 to Wilcox on Monday. The contest marked the first time this year in which the Spartans were not able to get on the board.
Meanwhile, Los Altos had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 8.3 runs) and they went ahead and made it seven on Saturday. They came within a single run of losing the streak, but they secured a 4-3 W against the Bells.
Anders Wood tossed a big game, pitching five innings while giving up just one earned (and two unearned) runs off four hits. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in strikeouts (four).
At the plate, Los Altos saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Gavin Moore, who went 2-for-3 with one double and one RBI.
Los Altos' win was their sixth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 15-4. Those road victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.2 runs on average over those games. As for Mountain View, their loss dropped their record down to 13-7.
Mountain View couldn't quite finish off Los Altos in their previous meeting back in April of 2024 and fell 8-6. Can the Spartans avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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