The Santa Margarita Eagles will square off against the Paloma Valley Wildcats at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Neither of those teams managed to put together many runs in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual.
Santa Margarita is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of California's top teams: Los Osos, who was ranked 19th at the time (Santa Margarita was ranked 15th). Santa Margarita took a 5-1 hit to the loss column at the hands of Los Osos on Friday. That makes it the first time this season the Eagles have let down their home crowd.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Paloma Valley faced off against Arlington on Thursday. Paloma Valley fell 6-1 to Arlington. The loss continues a trend for the Wildcats in their meetings with the Lions: they've now lost four in a row.
Paloma Valley's defeat dropped their record down to 7-2. As for Santa Margarita, their loss dropped their record down to 6-2.
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